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Jul 25, 2024
A number of economic and political icebergs that could sink the US and world economies that are in plain sight.
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Jul 20, 2024
Judging by the keynote addresses at this week’s Republican Convention, it seems that two very bad economic ideas have come back into fashion.
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Jul 18, 2024
The Chinese economy is in deep trouble and its economic growth model is now well past its sell-by date.
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Jul 9, 2024
History will not judge Jerome Powell’s Federal Reserve kindly.
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Jun 27, 2024
Herb Stein famously said that if something cannot go on forever it will stop. He might very well have been talking about the unsustainable debt situations of the United States,...
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May 4, 2024
Unfortunately for Biden, the Fed’s transparency makes it immune to political pressure to reduce interest rates.
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Apr 23, 2024
James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political advisor famously said that when it came to elections it was the economy, stupid. This year’s presidential election is likely to...
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Apr 10, 2024
The Fed can choose to target inflation or maintain financial stability. It can't do both.
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Apr 4, 2024
Reflecting on the stock market bubble of his time, Isaac Newton famously said that he could calculate the movement of the planets but not the madness of men.
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Mar 8, 2024
There is some good news and some bad news about our public debt problem.
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Feb 28, 2024
Even as another US banking crisis now looms and China increasingly poses a deflationary threat to the world economic outlook, Mr. Powell stubbornly clings to the view that interest...
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Feb 8, 2024
Anyone who thinks that the regional banking crisis is over has not being paying attention.