3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (839+ words) International Man: Investors tend to chase whatever is most fashionable at the moment. Where do you see important investment opportunities developing today that most people are overlooking because they aren’t exciting or widely discussed yet? What’s interesting this time around…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (215+ words) Peter opens by taking aim at the endless parade of economic statistics that dominate headlines and move markets, despite being unreliable at best: From there, Peter turns to Trump’s obsession with low interest rates, unpacking why the president’s nostalgia for…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (891+ words) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood in front of business students at SMU's Cox School of Business in Dallas on Tuesday and said something refreshingly blunt: “We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem.” His prescription is 3 percent…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (151+ words) Scott Bessent boasting “I am the house” and trying to talk down the dollar is the classic hubris of a central planner. As Martin Armstrong points out, we saw this exact political vanity with the 1985 Plaza Accord—and the market…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (758+ words) The labor market was in far better shape in August than experts had forecasted. Not only did the headline on the monthly jobs report show 162,000 jobs were added and the unemployment rate remained low, but a deep dive into the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (768+ words) When you look at present day America 2.0, you almost have to marvel at the depth of the unfairness, injustice, and criminality all around us. As I’ve said so many times, there is nothing accidental about it. None of the randomness…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (645+ words) Though Herbert Hoover was a pioneer among presidents in getting the government to “do something” about a depression, he was no maverick. He had the support of distinguished court economists who promoted the idea that stable prices were the key…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (175+ words) We’re told “inflation” is just needing more dollars to buy stuff – not that the stuff actually costs more. This is bullshit. I can prove that it is bullshit. A subject for another time. “Inflation” is often presented as something vaguely…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (956+ words) We’ve noted repeatedly how in 1913, with the establishment of the Fed, the monetary system got on the wrong track. Then, in 1971, it went off the rails. By the late 1960s, the US government lacked real money to feed its fiscal furnace....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (186+ words) Nick Catoggio is a staff writer at The Dispatch and is based in Texas. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he spent 16 years gradually alienating a populist readership at Hot Air. When Nick isn’t busy writing a daily newsletter on…...