Author Archives: MN Gordon

The Road to America’s Golden Age

Hey! Rub-a-dub-dub. Trump won! Make a toast or say a prayer. It all depends on your political and spiritual preferences. There are times to kiss the bottle. So, too, there are times to kneel in church. Perhaps now is the time for both.
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Inflation and Chaos

Data can be contrived to tell whatever story the author desires. Data contrived by government agencies is particularly susceptible to the imposed will of the overseeing administration. Policy makers want the data to make them look good and to justify their decisions. Continue reading

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Dumb Reasons Why More QE Is Coming

Debt, deficits, and debt interest payments have crippled America’s finances in a way that only a government of corrupt clowns could have made possible. Decades of overspending are coming home to roost. We all get to live with the consequences. Continue reading

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Whip Inflation Never

The storyline all year from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury was that consumer price inflation was coming down. That it would soon be within the Fed’s arbitrary 2 percent target. That the runaway inflation over the last few years was a mere pothole in the road to greater prosperity. Continue reading

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