Investor CAFÉ Newsletters
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Should Insider Trading Be Legal?
“If companies would tell us more, insider trading would be worth less.” — James Surowiecki, New Yorker magazine In a stinging rebuke for the U.S. government, a Texas jury acquitted billionaire Mark Cuban of insider trading. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused him of using a private tip to avoid a big loss on his 2004 […]
Is Capitalism All about Dog-Eat-Dog Competition?
“Markets are a vast cooperative enterprise in which buyers and sellers work together to set prices and allocate resources. Transactions occur without coercion and, in fact, occur only with cooperation.” — Jason Voss, CFA, director, CFA Institute Yesterday, I played “Ten Tennis” with my grandson Luke (age 9). I invented this new version of tennis called “Ten Tennis” […]
Replacing Keynes: A New “General” Model of the Economy
“How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?” — Robert Heinlein Keynesian economics has created much mischief in the world — a bias toward inflation and easy money, chronic deficit spending, an anti-saving mentality, progressive taxation, big government and the welfare state. Market-friendly economists […]
Minimum Wage Minimizes Job Growth
Job growth has been the bleakest aspect of the seemingly never-ending Great Recession. It is not even keeping up with population growth, and more and more Americans are dropping out of the labor force (only 63% of all adult Americans now hold a job). Artificial efforts to stimulate the economy aren’t helping. The latest dumb […]
The Fed is out of Control
“The establishment of Central Banking removes the checks of bank credit expansion, and puts the inflationary engine into operation.” — Murray N. Rothbard, “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” Last Monday morning’s Yahoo Finance headline was most appropriate: “Markets Rise on Summers’s Decision; Free Alcohol in Stores.” The announcement had reference to Larry Summers’s […]
The 9/11 Investment Strategy: Preparing for the Unexpected
“It’s easier to prepare than to predict.” — Hank Brock I gave my first talk about the 9/11 terrorist attacks yesterday at the New York City chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). I moved to New York only a week before the 9/11 attacks in 2001 to become the new president of […]
How to Protect Yourself from a Stock Market Crash
“Look out! A 1987-Style Crash is Coming.” — Marc Faber Last month, Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, predicted that a 1987 crash “will happen in the back half of 2013.” In 1987, the stock market boomed — until it collapsed on October 19, 1987, when the Dow fell more than […]
I Too Have a Dream
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963) Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a famous sermon at the Lincoln […]
Deficits Fall: Is Gridlock Good?
A mild recovery in the economy, combined with tax hikes and a spending slowdown, resulted in a sharply falling annual federal deficit — from $1.5 trillion two years ago to $600 billion today. Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute has just released a series of charts showing a definite slowdown in federal spending since the […]
Whom Would You Trust with Your Savings: Your Grandfather or Big Brother?
Today’s Skousen CAFÉ features a guest column from investment writer Dennis Miller, while I am attending and speaking at the San Francisco MoneyShow. His column on Big Brother spending by the Federal government is right on target, and very much in keeping with our theme at next year’s www.freedomfest.com, “Is Big Brother Here?” Also, be […]
