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John Tamny

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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  • 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...
  • Respectfully Disagreeing with Peter Morici - September 10, 2009
    • Peter Morici is a renowned economist and University of Maryland professor of economic means who believes that the "trade deficit" was a "principal cause of the...
  • Bush's Fed Mistake Is Now Obama's - August 26, 2009
    • Yesterday President Obama confirmed what futures markets seemingly already knew, that Ben Bernanke would be reappointed as Fed Chairman. Whatever one's opinion of...
  • Imagining a World Without Tax-Free Government Bonds - August 20, 2009
    • Last month federal agents arrested a large number of New Jersey politicians on bribery and money laundering charges. As described in the Wall Street Journal, one $97,000...
  • Suffocating Under the Heavy Hand of Government - August 11, 2009
    • "Chinese industry will continue to grow, it can't help but expand with all the reinvestment they pour into it," remarked an American engineer who has helped construct...
  • At Goldman, Matt Taibbi Fires and Misses - August 4, 2009
    • In a piece written to shed light on the allegedly evil doings of Goldman Sachs, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi unwittingly let readers in on why the...
  • Why Investors Should Ignore GDP - July 30, 2009
    • The great Canadian economist Reuven Brenner has likened macroeconomic calculations to dangerous mythmaking that sustains "the illusion that prosperity is necessarily...
  • Bernanke's Monetarism Is a Logical Impossibility - July 23, 2009
    • About former Federal Reserve chairman Arthur Burns, Rice University historian Allen Matusow once wrote that "he had no fixed monetary principle of his own, except a...
  • Once Again, Paulson Misses the Point - July 21, 2009
    • In testimony before Congress last week, former Treasury secretary Henry Paulson said he was "proud to have been among the many public servants" who came together "to...
  • Las Vegas As a Lesson In Basic Economics - July 16, 2009
    • Though Las Vegas is perhaps best known as a tacky City of Sin where what happens within its limits stays there, its fortunes and misfortunes provide us with broad...
  • Don't Buy Brown and Sarkozy's Oil 'Speculations' - July 14, 2009
    • In the Wall Street Journal last week, French president Nicolas Sarkozy teamed up with U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on a piece meant to reduce oil-price volatility....
  • The Silver Lining within Rising Jobless Numbers - July 7, 2009
    • Last Thursday's news of yet another increase in the national rate of unemployment was predictably met with quite a few downcast headlines. The Wall Street Journal led...
  • Obama's Volunteer Initiative Is Economically Bankrupt - June 30, 2009
    • Responding to the almost monolithically positive coverage of the Obama administration by the national press, Phil Bronstein, editor-at-large for the Hearst Newspapers,...
  • Without Excusing Geithner, This Is Bush's Inflation - June 25, 2009
    • The recent spike in U.S. Treasury yields has generated renewed commentary about the specter of inflation. It's even being asked if we're repeating the inflationary...
  • Van Hoisington's Low Inflation Outlook Isn't - June 23, 2009
    • In a recent speech before the clients of research firm Applied Finance Group, Entropy Economics president Bret Swanson showed an ad from 1989 which featured "the most...
  • Is There An Oil Story Behind the Iranian Elections? - June 18, 2009
    • Writing about last week's presidential election in Iran, the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens observed that the plebiscite was "so transparently rigged that the only...
  • World War II Did Not End the Great Depression - June 16, 2009
    • "Whereas before there had been almost no framework to explain what Roosevelt was doing, now a respectable one was forming. Spending promoted growth, if government was...
  • Geithner Brings the Laughs In China - June 9, 2009
    • Though the U.S. press mostly withheld mention of it last week, the international media had a big laugh over Treasury Secretary Geithner's visit to China. Apparently more...
  • Mankiw & Rogoff: Why We Don't Need Economists - June 2, 2009
    • At first glance it’s easy to pick out the many problems with their analysis. While it’s certainly true that inflation drives cash-holding individuals to consume in...
  • Mankiw & Rogoff: Why We Don't Need Economists - June 2, 2009
    • Given the almost monolithic failure on the part of economists to predict our present economic malaise, more than a few commentators have taken to asking why we rely on...
  • BOOK REVIEW: Ian Bremmer & Preston Keat's The Fat Tail - May 26, 2009
    • Those attuned to political risk back in 1929 doubtless saved themselves a great deal of anguish, and in writing The Fat Tail, Bremmer and Keat seek to explain the...
  • BOOK REVIEW: Ian Bremmer & Preston Keat's The Fat Tail - May 26, 2009
    • Those attuned to political risk back in 1929 doubtless saved themselves a great deal of anguish, and in writing The Fat Tail, Bremmer and Keat seek to explain the...
  • To 'Fix' the Derivatives Market, Don't - Forbes - May 25, 2009
  • The Flat Tax vs. the Fair Tax - May 19, 2009
    • When it comes to tax simplification, the debate seems to come down to the merits and demerits of the Flat Tax and the Fair Tax. The former would tax income at one flat...
  • Short Sales, and the Uptick Rule Revisited - May 14, 2009
    • Back in the early ‘30s, much like last fall, federal curbs on short sales were put in place. But as is well known now, they didn’t arrest stock-market declines. ...
  • The Mythology Surrounding the Corporate Tax Rate - May 12, 2009
    • President Obama has gestured that he would like to close some of the loopholes that lower the rate, particularly with regard to foreign earnings, but absent a parallel...
  • The Myths About a Return to the Gold Standard - May 5, 2009
    • The cries for gold are surely exciting given the basic truth that had the dollar been stable this decade, there’s simply no way we’d be in the financial mess we’re...
  • When Our Trade Isn't Free, Neither Is Our Work - April 30, 2009
    • Greenspan’s underlying point is that the trade that so many discuss in terms of countrywide imports and exports is really about individuals freely exchanging their...
  • Geithner's Protections Are Banking Opportunities Lost - April 23, 2009
    • The Administration’s reasoning on the above was laid out last Sunday by Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s NEC chairman, on NBC’s Meet the Press. Summers said...