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A Plan to Prevent an American Debt Crisis
Federal debt is rising fast compared to GDP, and growth at these rates seems unsustainable. In recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee, Cato...
Can the Federal Reserve Control Inflation?
According to new research by the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, the answer to the question "Can the Federal Reserve control...
ESG Bankers Worried about Legal Blowback for Greenwashing
Only recently, you read about BlackRock's ironic backpedaling on ESG because of its effect on supply chains for electric vehicles. Now, some more ESG...
Some ESG Chickens Come Home to Roost
After years of hammering the mining industry with negative press and exclusion from ESG funds (meaning more difficulty in raising capital for the miners),...
Don’t Forget How Long Markets Can Take to Recover
Don’t forget that markets can stay down for a long time after they’ve crashed. Remember how long it took the Nasdaq to recover from...
The End of Easy Money for Borrowers, Not Savers
You can see on the chart below of ten-year and three-month treasury rates that the era of easy money for borrowers is over. But...
Time to Revisit Your Bond Portfolio?
In The Wall Street Journal, John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke, both economists at Johns Hopkins, discuss the similarities of today's markets to that of 1987,...
It’s More Important than Ever to Save Til It Hurts
According to the most recent reading of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, the United States has come in at 22nd place among...
Friends Are You Living Like The Intelligent Investor?
In the mind of Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor, and teacher of star pupil Warren Buffett, his thinking was to build a...
Keep Other People’s Politics Away from Your Money
Keep other people’s politics away from your money. Your Survival Guy favors the selection and ownership of individual stocks to avoid the ESG crowd....