Monthly Archives: December 2025
Why Market Fundamentals Always Win in the End
The U.S. stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, is closing out another solid year. With just a few trading days left in 2025, it’s up over 17 percent. Once again, buy and hold index fund investors have been rewarded for their mindless rigor. Continue reading
From Inflation to Implosion
The 2026 fiscal year started on October 1. The Treasury, so far, has reported its spending for the first two months. The dismal results should come as no surprise. Continue reading
The Great Digital Dollar Switcheroo
U.S. government finances are failing. But instead of allowing things to continue to their inevitable demise, the central planners are looking to pull off another switcheroo. Like the issuance of Greenbacks during the Civil War or FDR’s gold confiscation in 1933, the U.S. government is scheming to radically change the form and feel of money once again. The goal is to mask an outright default. Yet make no mistake, the little guy – that’s you – will get screwed. Continue reading
Spoon-Fed Labor
The subject and nature of “labor” is, of course, as old as mankind itself. Indeed, we would not be here today, tapping away on our laptop computer, were it not for the convenient fact that enough of our forebears managed to dodge the cosmic unemployment lines such that the species itself could carry on. Continue reading
