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2023 »
12/21/2023 - Looking Ahead
4/4/2023 - Five Reasons Governments Lie
1/16/2023 - Why Have There Been so Many Mergers and Consolidations in the U.S. over the Years?
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11/22/2022 - This Chart Shows Why Inflation Isn't Going Anywhere
11/10/2022 - Biden's National Security Strategy Visited
06/21/2022 - How Inflation Misallocates Resources
04/07/2022 - What Would You Do if Your Bank Account were Frozen?
02/06/2022 - Economic Lessons for Amish Children
01/11/2022 - Inflation: Transitory? Or Just Getting Started?
2021 »
06/16/2021 - Don't Forget about Food!
03/04/2021 - How Inflation Plays Out
02/21/2021 - Is it Unpatriotic to Avoid the Coming Price Inflation?
02/18/2021 - Earning a Profit, or Not?
02/16/2021 - Unequal Treatment under the Law
01/20/2021 - The Confusion about Inflation
01/17/2021 - The Return of Capitalism
2020 »
12/20/2020 - How Free Things Can Destroy Encentives
11/02/2020 - What Would Happen if the U.S. government were to Abolish the Federal Income Tax?
09/17/2020 - What Has Government Done to Our Money?
08/11/2020 - A Graphic Demise of the U.S. dollar
05/21/2020 - The Price of Free
03/22/2020 - The Problems with Bernie
03/05/2020 - The Problems with Socialism
2019 »
07/16/2019 - Why Have Living Standards Declined in the United States?
02/02/2019 - The Free Market is Failing Us?
07/16/2019 - Why Have Living Standards Declined in the United States?
2018 »
06/11/2018 - Why I'm So Down on Government
03/12/2018 - The World's Greatest Economic Experiment? Or More of the Same?
02/5/2018 - Trade Wars Coming Up
2017 »
12/31/2017 - Bitcoin: Fad, New Monetary Order, or Something in Between?
11/30/2017 - Tax Reform
10/27/2017 - What Happens When Governments Manipulate the Markets?
09/30/2017 - The Nature of Government—Conclusion
08/31/2017 - The Nature of Government
07/31/2017 - It's Too Late, Shelley
06/30/2017 - ’Til Debt Do Us Part
05/18/2017 - How Do the Amish Compete in Modern Society?
04/25/2017 - The More Government Does, the More it Takes Away
03/30/2017 - International Trade
02/19/2017 - Building Walls to Keep the Competition Out
01/25/2017 - Labor Lessons?
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12/28/2016 - How to Make America Great Again
11/29/2016 - What I Learned from my Ninth Grade Math Tutor
10/31/2016 - Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils
09/30/2016 - Reader's Questions Answered
08/29/2016 - Paying Your "Fair Share" While Building Wealth
07/29/2016 - Lessons from Planting Trees
06/29/2016 - The Brexit Aftermath
05/30/2016 - The Future Under Negative Interest Rates
04/27/2016 - Why Regulators Can't Regulate
03/28/2016 - Working Outside the "System"
02/25/2016 - Negative Interest Rates
01/14/2016 - The 21
st
Century Gold Standard is Already Here
2015 »
12/31/2015 - 2015 Review
12/02/2015 - Another Consequence of Declining Oil Prices?
10/29/2015 - What Will the Next Debt Default Crisis Bring?
09/29/2015 - Why the Fed Didn't Raise Interest Rates
08/31/2015 - Currency Wars: Who Wins? Who Loses?
07/29/2015 - When Paper Money is Free
07/03/2015 - Following the Greek Example
05/28/2015 - As Costs Rise, Opportunies Decline
04/28/2015 - The Difference Between the Republicans and the Democrats
03/31/2015 - Which Way Will the Fed Turn?
02/26/2015 - Why Should We Audit the Fed?
01/19/2015 - The Swiss Franc Snaps--Up
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12/29/2014 - (R)oiling the World Markets
11/18/2014 - The Most Important Election of the Year
10/30/2014 - The Fed's Independence
09/30/2014 - ISIS: Can We Afford to Fight It?
08/14/2014 - Trade Wars Lead to Depressions
07/31/2014 - Still Waiting for Signs of Intelligence
06/29/2014 - Why I'm Not Inclined to Leave the United States when the U.S. Dollar Collapses
05/14/2014 - The Benefits/Costs of Low Interest Rates
04/16/2014 - The Evils of Inflation
03/03/2014 - What Inflation?
02/12/2014 - Income Inequality, Part 2
01/27/2014 - A Second Social Security System?
2013 »
12/16/2013 - Income Inequality
11/30/2013 - The Tax that is Obamacare
10/24/2013 - A Review of the Future
9/24/2013 - The Best Case Scenario
8/29/2013 - Inflation and Gresham's Law in my Lifetime
7/10/2013 - The
de facto
Gold Standard
6/30/2013 - Stirring up Envy
5/31/2013 - How Inflation Affects Wages
4/30/2013 - Municipal Woes
3/29/2013 - Warren Buffett Compares Gold to Capital
2/27/2013 - Money Walks
1/23/2013 - When the Convenience of Money isn't Worth It
2012 »
12/26/2012 - The Results of Inflationomics
TM
11/26/2012 - The Rise and Fall of Socialism
10/22/2012 - What Kind of “Arab Spring” will the United States Have?
10/6/2012 - What You, the Rich, Owe to the Poor
9/19/2012 - Problems and Symptoms
8/31/2012 - Government Spending Does Not Boost the Economy!
7/30/2012 - Leaving the Euro Behind
6/28/2012 - Illegal Aliens
vs.
Chinese Imports
5/31/2012 - Passing the Baton from the United States to China
4/30/2012 - Letter from a Reader
3/30/2012 - When Money Fails to Function
2/27/2012 - Four Problems with Taxing the Rich
1/30/2012 - Symptoms of the Three Phases of Inflation
2011 »
12/30/2011 - 2012 Forecasts
11/29/2011 - Lamenting Bailouts
10/27/2011 - The 99 percent Movement
09/30/2011 - Governmental Influence
08/29/2011 - Market Demand
vs.
Government Demand
07/26/2011 - The U.S. Government's Fight against Money
06/29/2011 - Traditionally Hyperinflations Were a Local Phenomenon
05/30/2011 - Hedgers
vs.
Speculators
04/30/2011 - Some Long-Term Consequences of Inflationomics
03/30/2011 - A Tale of Two Brothers
03/29/2011 - Using Cycles to Predict the Future
and
Cycles Eliminate the Need for Reasoning and Explanations
02/28/2011 - Which Will Hit the United States First, a Deflationary Depression or a Hyperinflationary Destruction of the U.S. dollar?
01/24/2011 - Some Virginia Legislators Worry about Hyperinflation!
2010 »
11/24/2010 - Deficits Do Matter
11/18/2010 - Is the Fed Really Exempt?
10/28/2010 - Too Big to Fail?
09/27/2010 - The Grip of Inflationomics
08/16/2010 - Enterprise “Zones” for Chronically Unemployed Individuals
07/29/2010 - Two Roads to Bankruptcy
06/25/2010 - Keeping Interest Rates Low
05/17/2010 - There Are Two Prices: Which One's for You?
04/22/2010 - Unwitting Speculators
03/31/2010 - Government for the People or Over the People?
02/25/2010 - The Composition of Wealth
01/26/2010 - Some Problems with Nationalizing Businesses
2009 »
12/23/2009 - Inflation: The War Against Money
11/06/2009 - Could the U.S. Dollar Experience Hyper-Inflation?
10/09/2009 - Jawboning: So What's New?
09/22/2009 - Cash for
Clunkers
Everyone
08/31/2009 - Cracks in the Dollar Dam
07/29/2009 - Healthcare Meltdown
06/22/2009 - Taxing the Competition
06/04/2009 - Derivatives Explained
04/13/2009 - When Government Money Monopolies Fail
03/19/2009 - The Inflation Question
02/23/2009 - Government is Doing Something
01/12/2009 - Debt Makes a Debtor
2008 »
12/08/2008 - Baltic Index Bodes Badly
11/04/2008 - U.S. Weighs Purchasing Stakes In More Firms
10/29/2008 - Some Things Are Clear
09/30/2008 - As Inflation Grows, So Grows the Government
09/11/2008 - Nationalized Lending Leads to Inflation
08/13/2008 - Excess Profits?
07/16/2008 - Excessive Speculation
06/13/2008 - Talk is Cheap
05/07/2008 - Why Does the Fed Lower Interest Rates?
04/03/2008 - Insights from Zimbabwe
03/06/2008 - There's a Limit to What the Fed Can Do
02/08/2008 - The Best Money Can Buy
01/02/2008 - Inflation is a Political Creation
2007 »
11/26/2007 - Why Inflationomics is So Popular
05/19/2007 - Money is Flooding the World Markets
2006 »
10/27/2006 - An Unstable Dollar Standard
08/14/2006 - Why is Medical Care So Expensive?
07/12/2006 - Principles of Inequality
06/23/2006 - Hedge Funds Curb the Business Cycle
06/14/2006 - The Fed’s Balancing Act
05/19/2006 - Under the Shadow of Inflationomics
02/14/2006 - The Strength of the Dollar
2005 »
06/13/2005 - Inflation Breeds Many Evils
2004 »
12/28/2004 - Shades of the Dollar Standard
11/10/2004 - Bubbles in Real Estate
06/15/2004 - A Quicksand of Debt
03/02/2004 - Inflation or Deflation?
2003 »
11/19/2003 - CEO Remuneration
11/08/2003 - Miraculous Growth of Money
10/24/2003 - There is a Market Rate of Interest
10/18/2003 - Potential Dollar Scenarios
04/03/2003 - The Perils of Deflation
03/01/2003 - Gold is Shining Again
02/21/2003 - Defecits do Matter
2002 »
11/15/2002 - Incomes are Falling
11/08/2002 - Blaming the Fed
10/23/2002 - Federal Prodigality
09/07/2002 - A Visit to Russia
04/23/2002 - Deep in Debt, in Deep Danger
02/22/2002 - Argentina: Skirting Anarchy
02/05/2002 - A Japanese Lesson
2001 »
07/14/2001 - Fed Rate Cuts
05/22/2001 - The Languishing Euro
05/05/2001 - The Mighty Dollar
03/31/2001 - The Fed, The Fed, The Fed
01/11/2001 - The Bulls and the Bears
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11/22/2000 - Record Trade Deficits
10/08/2000 - The New Era
07/29/2000 - Ill-Designed for Soft Landings
04/02/2000 - An Uncertain Euro
03/01/2000 - The Long Shadow of a Bubble
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