The penny has long been a quiet fixture in American life—a copper sparkle caught between couch cushions, a lucky find on the sidewalk, the face of Lady Liberty originally, and later Abraham Lincoln, passed from one hand to another for…

Returning from the UK, I was struck by a headline in a British news magazine, The Spectator, that read, “Rachel Reeves couldn’t be prouder of crippling the economy.” While provocative, the sentiment echoed conversations I have had with family and…

A new University of Texas at Austin study reveals that sophisticated cryptocurrency scams, known as “pig butchering,” have stolen an estimated $75 billion from victims globally between January 2020 to February 2024, an amount far higher than previously thought. Increasingly,…

On the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea lie the three small countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These Baltic States have much to teach anyone who doubts the foundations upon which our nation is built. For centuries, neighboring empires…

Cash management in a high-rate environment has become a performance battleground, and recently, new products have been created to help investors maximize their returns on cash reserves. Vanguard’s recent introduction of two new short-term Treasury ETFs, VBIL and VGUS, exemplifies…