Take the Clear Pill on Inflation
On April 10th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported figures for the March Consumer Pr
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The PPI Again!
Mark takes another look at the Producer Price Index.
The Seen and the Unseen: Implications of Biden’s New Tariff
Biden’s newest proposal for steel tariffs join a long list of tariff policies that ignore the unseen damage that will be done to the U.S.
Disappointing News
The inflation news from the Federal Reserve is once again disappointing.
Let’s Be Honest: The Economy Is NOT Doing Well
Despite the usual cheerleading from the Biden-supporting mainstream media and academic economists, the US economy is in trouble, and everything Biden is doing makes things worse. Harder times are coming.
Is Gold Overpriced or Can Its Price Go Even Higher?
This question has been at the center of a great many conversations I’ve been recently having with clients and friends.
CNN Is Wrong. Deflation Is a Good Thing
A recent CNN broadcast claimed that deflation was bad for the economy and that we need to adjust to higher prices. As usual, the journalistic “experts” got it backward.
Understanding the History of African Slavery: The Europeans Were not the Only Slave Traders
While modern academic and media culture portray black Africans as victims only of Europeans, the history of the African slave trade is much more complicated than historians and journalists want us to believe.
Chokepoints
What happens when war shuts down the Strait of Hormuz? What about the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, and Baltimore harbor?
