Financial Markets
Why Profitability Matters, and Market Forces Are Not Random
The success or failure of investment in stocks depends ultimately on the same factors that determine success or failure of any business.
Thornton Corrects Fed in the Wall Street Journal
The Fed cannot see the natural rate of interest, but it is right before its eyes.
Why All the Post-Brexit Hysteria?
Brussels is doing all it can to make the UK pay for wanting to leave the EU. This only further illustrates why exit from the EU is a good idea.
European Integration Is Dead, Long Live Monetary Cooperation
Brexit has raised some barriers to globalism, but central banks remain unimpeded in their efforts to work together to manipulate economies.
Jim Rickards: The New Case for Gold
Jeff Deist and Jim Rickards discuss gold in the context of current geopolitics and enduring myths about monetary growth.
Amazon = $3 Trillion?
Let us see how close this venture capitalist comes to putting a $3 trillion price tag on Amazon at its all-time high price.
Gross Calls for Helicopter Money
Legendary investor Bill Gross calls on the Fed to bring on Milton Friedman's "helicopter money."
More Economic Data Leaking to Markets
A new ECB white paper has found evidence that many data releases in the US are leaked in advance, benefiting certain special interests.
James Grant: The United States of Insolvency
When did fiscal and monetary sanity become a radical position in America? Jeff Deist interviews Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer.