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Neither Easy Money Nor Tight Money

11/26/2014

“Ni Democracia ni Dictadura” — Graffiti on wall in Rosario, Argentina I spent a week in Rosario, Argentina, attending and speaking at an Austrian economics conference (www.austrianeconomicsconference.org). About 100 scholars, students and professors gathered at the conference, organized by Frederico Fernandez at the Catholic University. Speakers included Benjamin Powell of Texas Tech University (who spoke about […]

Why Are Conservatives So Ignorant about Gold and Silver?

11/20/2014

Surprise, surprise! Last week the terrorist group ISIS announced that it was issuing its own currency. Rejecting the paper money of the “tyrannical West,” the Islamic dinar will be denominated in gold, silver and copper coins. Finally, somebody is listening to Ron Paul… or Keynes, who famously called gold “the barbarous relic.” Now the barbarians […]

Wizard of Wharton Predicts Permanently Low Rates, A Continuation of the Bull Market

11/13/2014

“Those who predicted a return of double-digit inflation couldn’t be more wrong.” — Jeremy Siegel Last week on Veteran’s Day, I had breakfast at the magnificent old Union League of Philadelphia with Jeremy Siegel, the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned professor of finance, who is known as the Wizard of Wharton. It was a fortuitous opportunity […]

Will the Elections Make Any Difference?

11/06/2014

“Politics is the art of doing something you can do nothing about.” — Mark Skousen “We are protected by the jury box, the ballot box and the cartridge box.” — Senator Steve Symms Funny how politics works. The Republicans were in charge of all three branches of government in 2000, and what did we get? […]

Former Fed Chairman Greenspan Makes Startling Admission

10/30/2014

“The Federal Reserve is not independent!” — Alan Greenspan During the weekend, I spoke at the 40th anniversary of the New Orleans Investment Conference and had a great time meeting up with subscribers and signing dozens of copies of “The Maxims of Wall Street” as gift books. I even took several subscribers out to dinner […]

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Krugman Alert: Should the United States Adopt the European Model?

10/23/2014

Last week, at the invitation of Sheldon Jacobs (a longtime friend in finance and a regular attendee at FreedomFest), I went to see Paul Krugman speak at Westchester Community College, where he spoke before several hundred adults on “The European Welfare States Revisited.” Not very many students were there, but the adults there seemed to […]

The Forbes 400: Is the American Dream Still Alive?

10/16/2014

“I’ve been involved in three or four start-ups. This is the country where you can do it. Nowhere else.” — John Kapoor, an American from India and a member of Forbes 400 Next year, our theme at FreedomFest is “Can We Restore the American Dream?” We’ve already received a strong response, as we do not […]

The Greatest Triumph in Austrian Economics Since Hayek Won the Nobel Prize

10/09/2014

Next week, the Nobel committee in Stockholm will reveal the winner(s) of the Nobel Prize in economics. It reminds me of the celebration I attended last week at George Mason University, where more than 300 economists and political thinkers gathered to celebrate Friedrich Hayek’s winning of the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974. The star-studded […]

Derek Jeter, Steve Forbes and Me: Gaining an Unforgettable Lesson

10/02/2014

At the invitation of Steve Forbes, I was able to attend Derek Jeter’s last game as a player at Yankee Stadium. Mr. Forbes has season tickets and occasionally invites me to join him. Tickets for the game were selling for $850 and more, and those were bleacher seats, so I felt lucky. The Yankees were […]

Get Ready for the Big Krugman-Moore Debate!

09/25/2014

“What I love most about FreedomFest are the debates!” — John Mackey (CEO, Whole Foods Market) Many of my free-market friends have attacked Paul Krugman, the inflammatory New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner, for deliberately distorting the facts about the economic recovery, austerity programs in Europe, the federal deficit, taxes, school choice, etc. […]

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