Gold Paradox Recalls Bruce Lee’s Fighting (And Investing) Advice
World Gold Council data released earlier this month reveal a paradox. Demand hit 4,389 tons during 2016, but mines produced … Read more
Politics
The Broken Window
Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a … Read more
Here’s The Real Reason Trump Does Foreign Policy In Public
President Trump is no fan of the news media, but he will happily manipulate the press for his own purposes. … Read more
Border Adjustment = Massive Impact
Headline: Taxing The Trade Deficit To Broaden The Tax Base ***************************************** For those of you that studied economics in college … Read more
How The Russia Allegations May Bring Down Donald Trump
There may be a major anti-Trump coup underway in the United States amid the allegations about his closeness with Russia. Something that was … Read more
Don’t Fear The Euro
PARIS, France: There are stupid mistakes in the world. And then there’s the euro… Listen to the voices in Europe … Read more
When Nazis Were Nazis
Here at the start of the Trump Era, in the wake of the Women’s March on Washington, and just before … Read more
Latest Documents Confirm Government Scheme To Snag Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Profits
Here we go again. More documents and more evidence that government officials were saying one thing and thinking another with … Read more
First Book: A Novel Model For Social Enterprises
First Book founder Kyle Zimmer talks about the hybrid model that’s key to the nonprofit’s success. In the early 1990s, … Read more
"Real Wealth" vs. The Boom-Bust Cycle
For many, it has now become settled wisdom that the massive monetary pumping by the US central bank during and after … Read more
Pakistanis Call Ex Army Chief Raheel Sharif Back After Bomb Blast Hits Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Shrine
Raheel Sharif may soon find himself drafted by the Pakistani people to return to his previous post as Chief of … Read more
The US Has Never Had A Tax On Exports
I spent most of last week working with John Mauldin to explore the “border adjustment” tax reform idea. He wrote … Read more
Fed president says US banks have “half the equity they need”
In a scathing editorial published in the Wall Street Journal today, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, … Read more
Are We Entering An Age Of Universal Hypocrisy?
Donald Trump’s election has broken much new ground, including what I believe to be an unprecedented outbreak of hypocrisy on … Read more
Trump, The Dollar And Trade – What’s Ahead
Wharton’s Franklin Allen discusses how recent events could affect the U.S. dollar. President Donald Trump’s early statements on international trade … Read more