Today just about everyone is convinced that Inflation is here to stay. Ask the average person in the street what the number one economic problem is? And the odds are 9 out of 10 they’ll answer Inflation. In fact, in the latest Gallup Poll, more people view the economy as…

This week’s Face the Nation on CBS had one principal guest: David Malpass, President of the World Bank. I’ve linked the interview below. You can find it on the Face the Nation YouTube channel. For anyone who has followed economics in this country, you’re no doubt familiar with the name…

Today’s column comes from a comment from Tessa, one of my readers. Before we go any further, I want to thank Tessa and all my readers or listeners, especially those who take the time to comment. My mission is to create a space where we can discuss the day’s economic…

I became a stockbroker the year before the Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court. And as a citizen, Roe v Wade was the most impactful High Court Decision I remember. But interestingly, Roe v Wade had little to no impact on my career. It was company policy, and…

Nearly a half-century ago, Ronald Reagan gave us this simple aphorism to describe the kind of economy we face today. During those far way 1970s, the economy back then was failing. We had gone through the supply-side shock of an oil embargo. Inflation was the highest it had been in…

We’re living in a bizarre world. Where our political leaders endlessly discuss inflation yet most often exclude economic reality. Yesterday the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, took center stage before the Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs. The testimony is part of the Senate’s oversight of…

Yesterday was the longest day of the year. The day that summer begins on some calendars. A time we celebrate the sunny days and warm weather of this popular time of the year. It will be six long months before we face the year’s shortest day. Winter will again bring…

This Will Break Our Economy Inflation is arguably our number one economic problem currently. But just how bad is inflation? That’s a difficult question to answer. We all feel the effects of rising prices every day. We go to the grocery store, the gas station, and when we pay our…

The second line of that great national anthem, America the Beautiful, extols those “amber waves of grain.” Wheat stretching from Kansas to Oklahoma. It was wheat that produced abundance and fed generations of America. Today, as we have been every year since World War II, America has been the greatest…