June 15, 2012 – Nikolai Kondratieff (1892-1938) was a Russian economist who theorized that capitalist economies are subject to a repeating ...
March 21, 2012 – Earlier this week Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke gave a lecture to students at George Washington University. It was the ...
November 23, 2011 – There are a number of common misconceptions about the gold confiscation foisted on the American people by President Franklin ...
November 9, 2009 – The Labor Department on Friday reported that headline unemployment in the United States has now climbed to 10.2%, a ...
August 10, 2009 - Given all the euphoria after the unemployment number was released on Friday, one would think that the economic contraction had ...
July 13, 2009 - The chart below presenting total US employment over the past twenty years was prepared by the Economic Policy Institute. The ...
June 29, 2009 - I find the accompanying chart to be very interesting, and it is probably one of the most striking and informative charts on economic ...
January 12, 2009 - I don't like to start any new year on a gloomy note. I am by nature an optimist, but I am also a realist who readily faces facts. ...
May 12, 2008 - The Bush administration spin artists were out in force on May 8th. With the burst of activity that day, one can only assume that word ...
April 28, 2008 - In the last letter I quoted Murray Rothbard to help explain how the practice of keeping only fractional reserves - where a bank's ...
May 24, 2004 - 'Leverage' is a generic term applied to debt that is applied to and used in trading and investment positions. For example, if you use ...
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