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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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  • 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...
  • Supply Siders Should Eagerly Bid Bush Adieu - January 20, 2009
    • And with President George W. Bush set to depart the White House today, it’s perhaps useful to look at his policies through a supply-side prism. Sadly, for a president...
  • Government Solutions Are Slowing the Economy - January 15, 2009
    • At first blush it should be said that economies grow when the ideas of entrepreneurs are matched with capital. Joseph Schumpeter wrote that entrepreneurs “disrupt”,...
  • The Misleading Nature of Government Statistics - January 8, 2009
    • And if goverment economic statistics aren’t misleading investors about the health of the economy, they’re frequently telling us long after the fact what has actually...
  • Jaguar: A Cautionary Tale for Future GM/Chrysler Buyers - January 6, 2009
    • While Jaguar’s sleek styling never disappeared during its nationalized years, the quality of its cars surely did. For anyone who knew Jaguar owners during the ‘70s...
  • The Deflation Delusion Is the Phillips Curve In Reverse - December 23, 2008
    • In a 2003 speech made while vice chairman at the Fed, Bernanke spoke of looming inflationary pressures thanks to high levels of U.S.-based capacity utilization, and in a...
  • Book Review: Russell Roberts's 'The Price of Everything' - December 18, 2008
    • Thanks to the modern division of labor that is happily comprised of more and more self-interested individuals the world over, the average person can “know very little...
  • Joseph Stiglitz, and the Failed Ideas of Economists - December 16, 2008
    • In a recent article for Vanity Fair, Stiglitz engaged in falsehoods and contradictions in order to blame capitalism for our present troubles. It would perhaps be better...
  • Looming Bailout Is the Death of the Big Three - December 11, 2008
    • Fast forward six years, and something similar with regard to the U.S. carmakers has revealed itself. Desperate for federal money to save that which investors have left...
  • Don't Buy Into the Deflation Delusion - December 9, 2008
    • The mistake Roubini and other economists make is in tying changes in consumer prices to changes in the broad price level. More realistically, the price level can only...
  • The Fallacious Notion of 'Money Supply' - December 4, 2008
    • Why are VCRs cheap? Not because there are too many of them; instead they go for near nothing due to the fact that they’re no longer useful. DVD technology is faster...
  • Christmas Shopping and the Consumption Myth - December 2, 2008
    • The notion that consumption is the economy’s driver is not new. We’re regularly told that consumption constitutes 70% of our economy; a notion that couldn’t be...
  • This Is Obama's Market, Good and Bad - November 25, 2008
    • So instead of pricing in the present, stock markets are most useful for offering a snapshot of what things will look like in the future. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson...
  • Bank Share Collapse Points to the Failure of TARP - November 20, 2008
    • None of this should surprise us. By definition, federal money invested in private companies can only weaken them. Money supplied absent the sometimes rough hand of...
  • Henry Paulson to Supply-Side Economics: Drop Dead - November 18, 2008
    • Across the Atlantic in the United States, something similar was at work. Decrying the consumer culture which prevailed during his presidency, President Jimmy Carter...
  • Nouriel Roubini and the Folly of Fiscal Stimulus - November 13, 2008
    • Roubini’s analysis has attracted a lot of attention of late for his view that the moderation of this decade’s housing boom would lead to a financial crisis. The...
  • Time to Pull the Plug on General Motors - November 11, 2008
    • The above is the case because businesses rarely fail due to a lack of money. Instead, poorly run businesses find it hard to raise money in the capital markets. ...
  • A Post-Election Shift Against Free Trade? - November 6, 2008
    • All of this is relevant to the present considering the “mood shift” against free trade in Washington. As a Wall Street Journal article from last week noted,...
  • Weak Dollars, Weak Presidencies - November 4, 2008
    • Kennedy-Johnson. By 1960, there was a growing consensus in certain economic quarters for the U.S. to leave the Bretton Woods gold-exchange standard. Happily, John F....