Tag: monetary policy

Central Banks Extraordinary Policies: What Could Go Wrong

Many financial assets, especially those that are the riskiest, are priced well above their respective fundamental values.  A thank you primarily belongs to unprecedented monetary...

Investors: Normal is in the Eye of the Beholder

A scorpion asks a frog to ferry it across a river. The frog tells the scorpion he fears being stung. The scorpion promises not...

Is the Economy Like a Skeleton Wearing a Bowler Hat?

With concerns over China and global growth, the Federal Reserve took a dovish stance in today’s released FOMC minutes. They want to exercise patience to...

Modern Monetary Theory and its Fictional Discipline

"That is some crazy talk" – Bill Gates on the topic of MMT In my article, MMT Sounds Great in Theory… But, I dove into...

Stock Market Update: Have We Reached Cruising Altitude Yet?

The following article is a part of my Gone Fishing Newsletter that I provide to fishing club members each week to identify macro inflection points...

Economics on Gilligan’s Island

Famed economist Henry Hazlitt wrote the economics classic, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics. The book is...

Economic Rumblings… “Two Percent for the One Percent”

“Gradual inflation has a numbing effect. It impoverishes the lower and middle class, but they don’t notice.”—Andrew Bosomworth, PIMCO Germany, as quoted in Der...

Greetings From Stiltsville: Deficit Spending is Not a Free Lunch

A special thank you to Peter Cook for co-authoring this article with us. Imagine an island called Stiltsville, where a person’s value is based...

What Caused Fed Chairman Powell To Flinch?

Clues from the Fed II, an RIA Pro article from November 28, 2018, provided important insight into one of Jerome Powell’s most important speeches...

US Inflation: The Fed’s Mandate Picks Your Pocket

“Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.” – Milton Friedman This oft-cited quote from the renowned American economist Milton Friedman suggests something important about...

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