Rising interest rates, higher inflation and tighter monetary policy should be bad news for bonds. Yet investors have been buying record volumes of new bonds. Highly rated U.S. companies issued…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For the past eight years, the Federal Reserve Board has been the primary force behind the U.S. economy. That hasn’t worked out so well. Now President Trump is in charge…
Good News: Fed Predicts Slow Economic Growth
We can now be assured of improved economic growth in the years to come. Why? Because the Federal Reserve Board is predicting slow growth. And the Fed is always wrong.…
Obama Sets Economic Record–For Failure
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.…
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…