Fiscal Stimulus vs. Economic Growth
As the pace of government spending increases, a situation could emerge in which the…
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2021 May Be The Year That The World Loses Confidence In The Dollar
$8 TRILLION worth of government debt in the US will mature THIS YEAR alone. So that’s potentially $10+ trillion worth of government debt that will…
Continue readingWhat Will The Democratic Party-Dominated Federal Government Mean For The Economy?
After four years of a Republican-dominated government, it’s now the Democrats’ turn to step firmly on the spending and debt gas pedal…
Continue readingExtreme Charts: Weirdest Year In US Economic History
If “weird” equals “bad” in economics, which it frequently does, the odds of this ending well are rapidly approaching zero…
Continue reading2021’s Deficit Spending Is Already Out of Control: Here’s Why That’s a Problem
This could lead to rapidly rising consumer prices, but experience over the past 20 years has instead pointed to the bigger problem being…
Continue readingHelicopter Money Drop Imminent: Silver SURGES Then CRASHES Almost 10% Overnight As Cartel Brings On The Brute Force
The pressure on silver is to the upside, however, for at least these two very specific reasons…
Continue readingBiden Already Signals Reckless Abandon On Spending And Debt
Sure, let’s continue to pretend that massive debts and the devaluing of the dollar will have no impact, ever…
Continue readingBiden the Silver Bull
It may seem like an unlikely match. But there are some big reasons why Biden could become silver’s best friend…
Continue readingLearning The Wrong Lesson From World War II Debt
We had already decided that debt didn’t matter before the pandemic hit, which makes it easy to rationalize war-time levels of…
Continue readingWhy GOP Loyalists and Candidates Keep Moving Left
There is good reason to believe that the 2020 election was a repudiation of far-left social and economic policy in the United States…
Continue readingA Biden Win is Great for Gold?
People are waiting for more stimulus, but the next program will likely not arrive until February. The economy continues to contract, and while some…
Continue readingInvestors are as Clueless as Pollsters
Biden will reregulate what Trump deregulated, and Biden regulations will take toll on workers…
Continue readingTalk About A Landslide
There are a lot of unknowns right now. But regardless of who ends up being declared (or ruled) the winner, there are a few things you can count on…
Continue readingThe Trillion-Dollar F-35 Fighter Program Does Not Make Americans Safer
This program was created as a “too big to fail” scheme where once the government starts the process of making these fighter jets, they will…
Continue readingOn Fiscal Crisis, Savings, Debt And Gold: When Ancient Greece Experienced Their Own “2020”
So while ancient Athens met its crisis with a surplus of nearly $25,000 per citizen, the US has a deficit of $80,000 per citizen. And remember…
Continue readingDebt Is The Real Pandemic
Government spending forcibly takes resources from the private sector, where they are used to produce goods and services, and puts them in the hands of…
Continue reading2020 Will Be a Record-Breaking Year for Debt. How Long Can This Last?
Most Americans don’t seem particularly concerned about this…
Continue readingWant to Really Cut Taxes? Cut Government Spending
A cut in the income tax rate while government outlays continue to increase will lead the government to impose greater burdens in the future…
Continue readingThe Counterfeiting Fed & Reckless Political Spending
The failure of “planning” cannot be more obvious!
Continue readingWhen Reparations for Slavery Become Just Another Welfare Program
The reparations issue is unlikely to disappear any time soon, because it will remain useful to the debate over taxpayer funding of the welfare state. As such…
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