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John Tamny
John Tamny is editor of RealClearMarkets, a senior economic advisor for H.C. Wainwright Economics, and a senior economic advisor to Toreador Research and Trading (www.trtadvisors.com). He can be reached at jtamny@realclearmarkets.com.Subscribe to John Tamny RSS Article Feed.
Recent Articles
- 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? - RCM - June 18, 2009
- 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...
- Whatever GDP's Path, Don't Expect a Bull Recovery - April 16, 2009
- In much the same way, other commentators see recovery as something around the corner thanks to strong increases in the supply of money. To believe this is to put the...
- More Than Ever, We Need Currency Leadership - April 14, 2009
- In an article from February of 2008, it was questioned whether commodity currencies are actually bolstered when commodities themselves show nominal strength. What was...
- More Financial Regulations, More Financial Failures - April 9, 2009
- This is notable considering the global response to the financial problems in our midst. Politicians and the regulators they oversee, seemingly unconcerned by how...
- The Abundant Good Of a Dollar Alternative - April 7, 2009
- In the aftermath of World War II, arguably the most powerful reason for worldwide economic recovery had to do with the world being on a dollar standard, while the...
- The Fallacious Notion of Job Creation - April 2, 2009
- But when considering work, it should first be said that it always exists wherever there are people. Given the basic human need for the necessities of life, absent an...
- Once Again, Tim Geithner Gets It Exactly Wrong - March 26, 2009
- Geithner began by blaming Americans in total for the nation's economic difficulties. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal that, “as a nation we borrowed too much and...
- About Great Depressions, David Brooks Isn't Serious - March 24, 2009
- Indeed, it’s possible that the Republicans have figured out that the spending explosion this decade on their watch led to market returns under President George W. Bush...
- Schumpeter, and the Slow March Toward Socialism? - March 19, 2009
- Schumpeter was of course talking about a United States that he envisioned post World War II, but his fears then don’t stray too far from the concerns of many today. ...
- Down Markets and Dumb Economic Myths - March 12, 2009
- The logic with housing is completely backwards. The economy is not sagging because home prices have moderated, but it wilts because a weak, inflationary dollar this...
- Mark-to-Market Doesn't Destroy, It Reveals Destruction - March 10, 2009
- The above is an appealing thought, but it seems mark-to-market’s opponents blame a rational theory of accounting for the real issue weighing on banks. In this case,...
- Aiding the Bottom 10%: A Recipe for Economic Decline - February 26, 2009
- But most important for an economy very much reliant on the efficient deployment of what is precious human capital, it’s frequently the case among those made redundant...
- Bank Nationalization Is a Truly Awful Idea - February 24, 2009
- Worse when it comes to banks, once under government control they either are forced to invest conservatively, in politicized ways, or in the case of the alleged...
- The Collapse of the Capitalist Consensus - February 19, 2009
- And just as the richest in America are a moving target, so are the top companies. For evidence of this, all one would need do is take a Fortune 500 list from 1980, and...
- Will Compensation Controls Move Wall Street Overseas? - February 17, 2009
- What’s scary is that with the federal government now more than a rent-seeking partner in our financial future, it’s easy to imagine how our Washington minders might...
- Tim Geithner Offers Paralysis, Not Solutions - February 12, 2009
- After acknowledging that Americans had “lost faith” in an economic rescue plan that he was a principle architect of, Geithner added understatement in suggesting that...
- When Left Alone, Economies Never Fall Into Recession - February 10, 2009
- But since Obama is stridently of the view that the world’s richest and most innovative economy can’t grow without federal assistance, a thought experiment is in...
- To Ease the Credit Crunch, Let It Be - February 5, 2009
- So in periods when gasoline is in short supply, the natural spike in its price is the happy market signal that scarcity will eventually be relieved with new supply. The...
- Obama Is Authoring Liberalism's Capitulation - February 3, 2009
- So while President Obama is not presently seeking the implementation of Soviet-style economic cures for the U.S. economy, his economic agenda very much embraces the kind...
- The False Death of Trickle-Down Economics, Part II - January 29, 2009
- Sadly, news accounts since October have yet again shown that when the rich are hurting, the poor hurt even more. The logic underpinning trickle-down economics is...
- Geithner's China Bashing Bodes Ill for Stocks - January 27, 2009
- All of the above takes on greater prominence in light of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s statements about China last week. After mouthing the increasingly...
- Markets Ably Solve the Immigration 'Problem' - Forbes - January 26, 2009
- Obama's Economic Solutions Are Contractionary - January 22, 2009
- Eager to attract support from the Republican side of the aisle, Obama has expressed a high degree of willingness to include tax cuts in his post-inauguration...