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John Tamny is editor of RealClearMarkets, a senior economic adviser to H.C. Wainwright Economics, and a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research and Trading (www.trtadvisors.com). He can be reached at jtamny@realclearmarkets.com.
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- BOOK REVIEW: Michael Lewis's The Big Short - March 25, 2010
- Back in 1989 while a freshman in college, my investment banker father passed along to me his copy of Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker. Heavily read inside and outside of...
- What Blockbuster Can Teach Us About Economics - Forbes - March 22, 2010
- And Short-Sellers Personify Downside Protection - Forbes - March 15, 2010
- China's Economic Rise Is Truly Glorious - March 11, 2010
- It's very difficult to pick up any kind of financial publication these days without reading about China's growing economy, and what this means for the economic health of...
- What Is So Sacred About Bank Savings Accounts? - Forbes - March 8, 2010
- The Mystery That Is Martin Wolf's Influence - March 2, 2010
- Martin Wolf is a prominent columnist for the Financial Times, and a brief bio of sorts on the FT website notes that "leading economists" regularly debate...
- Volcker Rule Is a Banking Crisis Waiting to Happen - Forbes - March 1, 2010
- BOOK REVIEW: Liaquat Ahamed's Lords of Finance - February 23, 2010
- Long before Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson and Tim Geithner were empowered to allegedly save the world's financial system from collapse, a collection of four central...
- The Paradox of An Overly 'Generous' Government - Forbes - February 22, 2010
- The Naive Conceit of Banking Regulations - February 18, 2010
- Past troubles within the U.S. financial system continue to generate a great deal of feverish commentary from allegedly wise minds in the economic commentariat about...
- Snowstorms, Tariffs and the Mythical Trade Deficit - Forbes - February 15, 2010
- Deficit Hawks Ignore Greater Spending Peril - February 11, 2010
- Last week Congress approved an increase of the U.S. debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. Once the figure was announced, a lot of understandable hand-wringing ensued,...
- Searching for a Better Understanding of Depressions - February 9, 2010
- "But is it not conceivable that wants may some day be so completely satisfied as to become frozen forever after? Some implications of this case will presently be...
- Major Snowstorms, Cabdrivers and Interest Rates - Forbes - February 8, 2010
- BOOK REVIEW: After the Fall by Nicole Gelinas - February 2, 2010
- Back in 2002, in the aftermath of the 2000-01 Internet-stock collapse, the New York Post ran a fabulous opinion piece titled "Bearmarket.sued". The op-ed questioned the...
- Health Care, and the 16 Percent of GDP Canard - Forbes - February 1, 2010
- BOOK REVIEW: How Capitalism Will Save Us - January 28, 2010
- Robert Bartley, the late great editorial page editor at the Wall Street Journal was known to say that his page was one of the few that actually sold newspapers. The same...
- It's Time for Ben Bernanke to Resign - January 26, 2010
- Newspaper headlines last week and over the weekend pointed to a vote on Fed Chairman Bernanke's re-nomination that is increasingly dicey. Rather than achieve the...
- Inflation Is Always and Everywhere Badly Defined - Forbes - January 25, 2010
- Saving Haiti's Destitute from Jeffrey Sachs - January 21, 2010
- Last week's tragic earthquake in Haiti not surprisingly generated a great deal of commentary about the proper response to the impoverished nation's...
- The Jobs Outlook Misreads How Jobs Are Created - Forbes - January 18, 2010
- Looking Beyond the Immediate Effects of Policy - January 12, 2010
- "Nature recks nothing of intentions, good or bad; the one thing she will not tolerate is disorder, and she is very particular about getting her full pay for any attempt...
- Housing, Jobless Benefits and Unemployment - January 7, 2010
- While there are varying views as to what tomorrow's unemployment report will reveal, it's generally assumed that the number will be too high. But what's not spoken of...
- No, It's An Economy's Savers Who Truly Stimulate - Forbes - December 28, 2009
- Lamenting the Forgotten, Those Not Bailed Out - December 22, 2009
- "What I want to do is to look up C...I call him the Forgotten Man...He is the man who is never thought of. He is the victim of the reformer, social speculator and...
- Don't Be Fooled, Main Street Was Bailed Out - December 15, 2009
- The rush among nominally healthy banks to pay back TARP funds has unsurprisingly generated a great deal of controversy. Commentators and politicians alike are bothered...
- Obama's 2008 Campaign: A Job Creation Lesson - December 10, 2009
- With the federal government's measure of unemployment in the double digits, President Obama has unsurprisingly moved job creation to the top of his list of initiatives....
- Another Defense of Short Selling - December 1, 2009
- "Without short sellers, ‘there would be no one to criticize and restrain the false optimism that always leads to disaster.'" ~ Bernard Baruch Amid the difficult...
- Exposing Myths About China and the Yuan - November 17, 2009
- "Money is nothing but a medium of exchange..." - Ludwig Von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 31 By John Tamny President Obama's arrival in China has...
- The Death of Birth Is Not a Worry - November 12, 2009
- "For one particular car produced by an American manufacturer, for example, 30 percent of the car's value is due to assembly in Korea, 17.5 percent due to components from...
- Politicians and the Peculiar Worship of Full Employment - November 5, 2009
- With the Bureau of Labor Statistics set to announce presumably another dire unemployment figure tomorrow, it's a certainty that politicians from both sides of the...
- GMAC's Lifeline Is the Economy's Noose - November 3, 2009
- The 18th century French writer Voltaire once observed that the State is "a device for taking money out of one set of pockets and putting it into another." Voltaire...
- Desperately Seeking the Bruce Bartlett of Old - October 27, 2009
- In his brilliant 1981 book Reaganomics, economist Bruce Bartlett observed that "to the Keynesians, all tax cuts are the same." Seeking to show why that was not the case,...
- Paul Krugman, and the Middle-Class Champion Myth - October 22, 2009
- In a world full of paradoxes, Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has become rich decrying what he deems "income inequality." Only in...
- The Baucus Bill: A Backdoor Path to the Public Option - October 20, 2009
- In a column last week for the Wall Street Journal, former Bush adviser Karl Rove suggested troubles ahead for health care legislation thanks to the Senate's Baucus Bill...
- Why Peter Morici Is Wrong About China, Gold and the Dollar - October 13, 2009
- Peter Morici is very correct that the dollar has served as the "reserve central banks hold to back up national currencies", and he's also correct that the amount of the...
- Friday's Unemployment Is a Creation of Politicians - October 1, 2009
- Tomorrow the Bureau of Labor Statistics will announce the unemployment rate for September. While economists' projections ahead of the announcement suggest it's going up,...
- The Fed Continues to Operate Blindly - September 29, 2009
- For those who'd been optimistic that Federal Reserve officials might eventually wake up to the true nature of inflation, last week's FOMC meeting likely dashed all hope....
- Wall Street Pay Curbs Are Naive and Unnecessary - September 22, 2009
- Last week it was announced that the Federal Reserve would move forward on its plan to police and restrict pay among employees of large financial institutions. At first...
- Mark-to-Market Didn't Cause the Crisis - September 17, 2009
- Last September, when investment bank Lehman Brothers' looming failure was said to threaten the broad financial system, Stephens Bank CEO Warren Stephen sent a memo to...