Monthly Archives: January, 2015

The Monday Melee: Tuesday Edition

Are You Dropping Cable This Year? What We’re Reading: Tax Reform Should Go Right Down Main Street (The Wall Street Journal) What happens if the ECB pulls...

Obama’s Motives for Raising the Capital Gains Tax

All you need to know about Obama’s motives for wanting to raise the capital gains tax in a one minute video. This is from...

IMF: Outlook Not So Good

While the U.S. has been enjoying some economic success of late, much of the world is looking gloomier. The IMF made a big cut...

Consumers Pumped

Low prices for fuel and an increase in the number of employed Americans has pumped up consumers. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment survey...

Swiss Franc Soars

The Swiss National Bank announced today that it was dropping its three year-long peg to the euro. The franc soared on the news gaining...

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Communism Ruined Venezuela’s Productivity

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis reports that...

There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 15)

“He always took good care of me,” she said....

Is Oil No Longer the Middle East’s Most Vital Resource?

Javier Blas of Bloomberg reports that in the context...

War Is Expensive

Since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran...

US Wine Industry Faces Multi-Year Demand Correction

The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) State of the U.S....

There’s Nothing Wrong with Making Money Slowly (Part 13)

“If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me,” is one...

Gulf Energy Flows at Risk as Qatar Issues Urgent Warning

Qatar has warned that the ongoing conflict in the...

New Deal Speeds Alaska Native Property Transfers

The US Department of the Interior and the Alaska...

The Power of a Compound Interest Table

The principles written about here are as true today...

“An Insurance Company with an Army”

Scary headlines aren’t necessarily wrong, but one mistake to...