Monthly Archives: December, 2024

Your Survival Guy’s 2024 Super States: Time to Flee?

Originally posted February 29, 2024. Your Survival Guy’s 2024 Super States is in, and I wonder: Is it time to flee? Because this is the...

The Perils of Aggressive Retaliation: China’s Trade War Dilemma

Jason Douglas of The Wall Street Journal reports that while Beijing has already brandished the ways it could hit back at Trump’s levies, such...

Cyberattack on Treasury Department Linked to Chinese Hackers

Eric Tucker of the Associated Press reports that Chinese hackers accessed U.S. Treasury Department workstations and documents by compromising a third-party provider, BeyondTrust. The...

The Future of Surgery: Robots That Learn From Watching Videos

Mark Johnson of The Washington Post reports that researchers from Johns Hopkins and Stanford have developed robots trained through videos to perform surgical tasks...

A Survival Guy Mix of Stocks for You

Originally posted on August 9, 2024. A few years ago, at a Cato event, Your Survival Guy and Gal had the great pleasure of sharing...

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What’s Happening in France could Happen Here

You may have read that France is facing a...

Why Diesel Prices Have Surged Across the U.S.

U.S. diesel prices have risen sharply due to high...

Is China’s Economy Addicted to Real Estate?

In The Wall Street Journal, Nathaniel Taplin explains the...

The Payday Indicator

Alert! My Payday Indicator is signaling the worst environment...

Why Isn’t the Oil Price Coming Down?

President Trump and his administration have been touting a...

Junk Bond Yields

What do junk bonds yield today? The table below...

Consumers Forecasting Recession

In the almost 60 year history of the Michigan consumer sentiment survey, every time the index dropped below 60 as it did in August, the economy was in recession.

Moving the Goal Posts

The Federal Reserve met yesterday and Chair Yellen held...

Simple is Sophisticated: My Grandchildren’s “Rich as Croesus” Strategy Part II

Scene from Greek history: The deaf-mute son of King...

Welcome to Florida

In response to reports of the sagging luxury real...