I have now been working in the investment industry for 55 years, and over that time I have lived through four stock market super cycles, including the present, and most dangerous one. I explained the four cycles in March 2011, writing: Stock Market Super cycles I assure you, I do not plan to get gored […]

Originally posted on April 10, 2019. In The American Conservative, author and investment banker Christopher Whalen, takes aim at the Federal Reserve, saying that the President is right to have nominated critical outsiders to the Federal Reserve board of governors. Both of Trump’s nominees, businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, and political economist Stephen […]

Originally posted on July 26, 2017. After having elected the current “disrupter in chief,” you might be under the impression that no changes to government are off the table. President Trump has shown that he’s willing to break tradition time and time again. But there’s one place where Trump looks ready to move forward hand-in-hand […]

Decades of riding Harleys along America’s back roads has taken Debbie and me to some of the best (and worst) places you can find in this country. Small town Main Streets, with flags hung on front porches where hard working citizens sit on rocking chairs enjoying their freedom are a staple of the American Dream. […]

In The American Conservative, Charles F. McElwee III, details the plight of America’s Millennials. Loaded with debt, chronically underemployed, and with low prospects, the generation could become lost if policy isn’t modified to push them forward. He writes (abridged): What does the future hold for Millennials? They are renters and borrowers, not owners. They live […]

The executive director of The American Conservative magazine, John A. Burtka IV explains in The Washington Post that “In the long run, both the conservative movement and Republican Party will be better off for having had Donald Trump shatter the combination of neo-conservatism and Reaganism that held the political right captive and blinded since the […]

How did the U.S. economy go from an OK condition in January 2017 to an intense, nationwide labor shortage and rising wages less than 18 months later? Daniel Henninger in the WSJ answers his own question – it lies in deciphering the effects of the Trump administration’s abrupt unwinding of the Obama era’s economic regulations. […]

At The American Spectator, Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation, sets the record straight on socialism. Edwards rightly views the warm-thoughts of America’s young-adults towards socialism as a danger, and attempts to dispel some of the false ideas that have crept up around the world’s deadliest social and economic philosophy. He writes […]