Intractable Inflation

June 22, 2020  The Fed mistakenly believes it can control the rate of inflation with relative ease. While it believes it is far easier to fight a rising rate of inflation than deflation, it is still completely convinced the puppet strings of extant price levels rest...

Gold

June 8, 2020 The sad truth is that few people really know very much about gold, especially when it comes to investing in the metal. They don’t understand what makes it so valuable and unique, and they know even less what moves its price. Since I don’t want to spend an...

Money Printing Can’t Trump a Depression

May 26, 2020 The Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now Estimate for Q2 Economic growth is minus 41.9%. Thirty-nine million people filed Initial Jobless Claims in the past nine weeks. Continuing Jobless Claims (including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance) surged to over 31...