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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 […]
Why Are Stock Prices so Volatile?
At the invitation of Jan Fijor, a publisher of free-market books in Warsaw, Poland, I just completed writing an introduction to the Polish edition of Carl Menger’s “Grundsätze,” translated “Principles of Economics” in English. […]
Is the Stock Market about to Roll Over?
Stock analyst Eric Parnell recently wrote a column in Seeking Alpha, “Another Troubling Sign for Stocks.” He wrote, “U.S. stocks are increasingly traveling this upside path alone, as many other major global markets and asset classes that are highly correlated with U.S. stocks have either already ground to a halt if not turned lower beginning […]
Can You Beat the Market?
“FreedomFest is where the best ideas and strategies are fleshed out. I attend all three days.” — Steve Forbes I just returned from my big show in Las Vegas, FreedomFest, “the world’s largest gathering of free minds,” and we had a record turnout of 2,500 attendees. Top speakers included Steve Forbes, Art Laffer, Jim Rogers… […]
Who Won the Read Book Award at FreedomFest?
Today, I awarded George Gilder the annual LEONARD E. READ BOOK AWARD. See photo below. July 11, 2013 FreedomFest, “the world’s largest gathering of free minds,” gave out the award at this morning’s opening ceremonies in honor of Gilder’s new work “Knowledge and Power” (published by Regnery). This annual award is granted to the “libertarian […]
The Rise of Interest Rates: What it Really Means
The Federal Reserve controls interest rates, right? Not so fast. Ben Bernanke and Co. set the Discount Rate, the interest rate that banks pay to the Fed to borrow money short term. But they have a much harder time controlling long-term rates. Short-term rates are still low (less than 1%), but long-term rates recently have […]
Make Austerity Your Friend
“The solution to our problems is found in business, outside of government.” — Tony Blair, Milken conference 2013 “There is much revenue in economy.” — Ben Franklin SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: At 9 p.m. EDT tonight, I appear on John Stossel’s Fox Business (check local listings) show “Stossel” to discuss the growing debate “Austerity vs. Stimulus: Which […]
Are the Golden Days Over?
“I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can’t work out what it should or shouldn’t be worth… It is the last refuge of the desperate.” — Jeremy Grantham, U.K. value investor and money manager Has gold seen its better days? The yellow metal is off 25% from […]
Austerity vs. Stimulus: Has Krugman Won the Debate?
“The evidence has gradually piled up that, however well-intentioned they might be, the ‘Austerians’ were wrong.” — Henry Blodget, Business Insider Last week, Henry Blodget, CEO and editor of the Business Insider website, proudly announced that in the long-standing debate of austerity vs. stimulus, the Keynesian Paul Krugman has won. “The empirical evidence increasingly favored […]
