Bezos vs. Buffet: Billionaires’ Different Take on Media
With the sale of The Washington Post, Warren Buffet has unloaded a large stake in a drowning media company. Taking it off his hands...
Record Gold Demand in China Drives Prices Higher
It turns out that among China’s 1.3 billion people, there are enough gold bugs to move the market. The newly affluent Chinese are driving...
Fed: Money Printing Not Effective After All
Five years after the initiation of the largest money printing campaign the world has ever seen, the Fed is finally coming to the same...
Conflicting Advice
An investment advisor is required by law to act as a fiduciary for his client. A stock broker, or “wealth manager” as they refer...
IMF Prescription: Borrow it Forward
The IMF recently released an “annual check-up of the U.S. economy.” The prescription offered by the international organization was similar to its only prescription...
New Hampshire’s Unknown Billionaire: Keep it Simple Stupid
Turns out not all the money in the world is made by sexy tech companies. Keep it simple stupid.
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Summer Job(less)
Employment as a percent of the population is near 1970s levels. That's a lot of unused productive capacity going to waste here in the...
Gold as Good as it Ever Was
It’s hard for many so-called “elite” economists to think about gold as an asset, probably because they’ve devoted so much of their careers to...
After Disrupting Publishing, Internet sets its Sights on Education
The most disruptive force in economics over the last two decades has obviously been the internet. But the revolutions created by the web are...
Welcome to Stagnation
I would scrap corporate taxes all together. It’s the fastest way to kick-start this economy. As Art Laffer and Nicholas Drinkwater point out at...