So did President Obama save us from the financial crisis and rebuild America’s economic strength? Most media would have us believe that’s the case. As we previously noted, CNBC’s John…
Real News about Fake News
Don’t laugh, but the same journalists who have been writing about our booming economy, our amazing progress against ISIS (make that ISIL), Hillary’s dedication to her country and the coming…
Trump’s Not Reagan or Obama
Donald Trump is not Ronald Reagan. That should be obvious, but many optimistic conservatives are drawing parallels and predicting economic nirvana over the next four years. That’s unlikely to happen,…
An Election Post Mortem
“You can’t play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.” …
Do You Like Being Told What to Do?
Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn’t even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six … bloody paperwork.…
No Hope and No Change
Finally, the candidates are no longer presumptive. American voters and their delegates have chosen, yet somehow we’ve ended up with candidates from both parties that almost no one likes. Both…
Can We All Be Greeters at Wal-Mart?
Job reports typically report on jobs as if they are a commodity; a job is a job, whether you’re a CEOs or a greeter at Wal-Mart. So it’s good news…
“When Free Enterprise Dies, America Dies With It”
Public ownership has historically been the lifeblood of the American economy. Going public produced funding for growth, while providing investors with an opportunity to share in the company’s success. Not…
Let’s Ignore the Central Banks
What if we all decided to ignore the central banks? Granted, they have provided material for this blog non-stop from the day it started. They keep financial journalists, economists, analysts,…
Set. Down. No Hike.
The economic outlook can be summed up in five words: Everything’s great, except what isn’t. We’ll lead with the “everything’s great” part, as seen through the filter of the Federal…