Today, you can lend $10,000 to the U.S. government, which just closed its books for the year with a deficit of almost $1 trillion, and lock in an income stream of about twelve dollars per month for the next decade. That’s enough to treat yourself and the wife to a couple of Big Macs once […]
You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
UPDATE: It’s been two years now since the last issue of Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, and the more things change, the more they stay the same. The Fed just announced it will begin buying $60 billion a month in T-bills. And the cycle continues. “I’m going to miss hearing from Dick Young every month,” […]
Here’s the Frightening Future Warren and AOC Plan for America’s Economy
Named the “Just Society,” plan, it sounds like something right out of the Eastern Bloc circa the 1960s. The plan, created by AOC and endorsed heartily by Democrat presidential primary candidate Elizabeth Warren, is just as you would expect it to be, a massive wealth transfer from people who have worked hard to make their […]
The Road to Serfdom: Solutions for Today’s Problems
Kai Weiss, a research fellow at the Austrian Economics Center, explains to readers of The American Conservative the power of the solutions to today’s problems found in the classic social science book, The Road to Serfdom, by Friedrich August von Hayek. Weiss writes (abridged): It isn’t often that a social science book sells hundreds of […]
The Fed – “Independent” and “Non Political” – Joins The Resistance
Former Fed Vice Chair William Dudley, perhaps the next Fed Grandee, has stripped the veil, the WSJ reports. Most of us have read about or seen on TV former chairs of the Federal Reserve defending the central bank’s independence and foreswearing all political intentions. “But then,” as the WSJ asks, “what are we to make […]
Two Ways Out for America: Debasement or Default
At The American Conservative, Bill Bergman makes the case for Judy Shelton joining the Fed. While doing so, Bergman highlights that the American budget of today looks eerily similar to the budget of the Soviet Union in the days when Shelton was predicting the communist nation’s imminent collapse. Bergman writes (abridged): As a young researcher […]
The Fourth—and Most Dangerous—Investment Super Cycle of My Career
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 […]
The Fed, Taking from Savers Giving to Speculators
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 […]
Can America Ever End the Fed?
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 […]
Vance Returns to Ohio to Create New VC Opportunities
You may recognize the name J.D. Vance from his bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy which I wrote about in the “Trump’s Great White Wall” series (Read Parts I, II, III, and IV). In the book you see how he made himself into a success. Vance worked for Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and is now moving back […]
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