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The Wolf of Wall Street — Truth or Fiction?
“You know who didn’t have any bad years? Bernie Madoff — until he got caught.” — Ken Fisher The new Martin Scorsese film “The Wolf of Wall Street” is all the rage these days. I refuse to see the film (which I understand holds the world’s record for gratuitous use of the F-bomb, more than […]
My ‘Gross Output’ Statistic is Adopted by the Government
[In light of this week’s holiday, I am sharing one of my favorite recent columns with you today. This one first appeared on December 5, 2013, when I announced that the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis decided to adopt the Gross Output statistic that I have championed for more than 20 years. I […]
Is America No Longer the Land of Opportunity for All?
“For extreme inequality is still on the rise — and it’s poisoning our society.” –Paul Krugman, New York Times, September 12, 2013 I hope you all had a wonderful and a merry Christmas. During this holiday season, the media and various political pundits have made an issue about income and wealth inequality. “People are really upset […]
The FED Turns 100 — Shall We Celebrate or Mourn?
“The Federal Reserve has a great reputation but a lousy record.” — Milton Friedman Next Monday, on December 23, 2013, we observe the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve Act. Yesterday, I happened to be driving down to Florida to my winter home and stopped by Jekyll Island to commemorate the founding of the Federal […]
365 Ways to Get Rich — Here’s My Favorite
I’m celebrating Christmas early — I have a major article on page 50 of this week’s Forbes magazine (circulation 1 million). You can read it here. It makes the case for a new pro-business, pro-growth national statistic, Gross Output, which the Feds will be releasing in the spring 2014 along with GDP. Check it out. […]
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Making History: The Feds Adopt My Macro Model with New ‘GDP Plus’ Statistic
“Gross Output provides an important new perspective on the economy; and one that is closer to the way many businesses see themselves.” — Steve Landefeld, director, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce I’m getting great response to my Forbes.com article announcing a new supply-side “Austrian” macro statistic, Gross Output (GO), that the federal […]
Getting Free Food is a SNAP
“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” – “The Thanksgiving Psalm,” Psalm 100:4 Today is Thanksgiving, a great American tradition started by the Pilgrims and officially established by Abraham Lincoln as a national holiday. It’s one of my favorite holidays — a […]
J. P. Morgan Becomes the Whipping Boy of Washington
“You can’t pick cherries with your back to the tree.” — J. P. Morgan I’ve always been a big fan of J. P. Morgan, the country’s largest investment bank, since it was established by the grand old man. When visitors come to New York, I often take them down to 23 Wall Street and point […]
ObamaCare is a Big Success! Report from New Orleans Conference
“ObamaCare is not a ‘trainwreck,’ it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.” –Wayne Allyn Root, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/21/why-obamacare-is-fantastic-success/ I just returned from the famous New Orleans Investment Conference, where gold bugs meet every year to vent their […]
Wall Street: The Best Friend of Entrepreneurs and Investors
This week’s cover story of the New Yorker is “Can Wall Street be Fixed?” Yesterday, I was in downtown Kansas City to give a lecture at the historic Kansas City Public Library (actually at an old bank building). I tried to defend Wall Street and made the case that the stock market is the entrepreneur’s […]
