Author Archives: MN Gordon
Monkey Economics
Despite the advent of the tablet phone and microwave kettle corn, there are still rudimentary evolutionary responses hardwired into the core of the human psyche. During moments of failing they take over and suppress clear thinking. How else can one … Continue reading
Get Paid by Politicians
“I’m out here studying what appears to be an epidemic of arrested development in the American Dream,” wrote Hunter S. Thompson from San Francisco to a New York Editor in the mid-1960s. Fifty years later the effects of this epidemic … Continue reading
Pinching the Losers in Congress
Financial markets are remarkably confounding. If you’ve ever speculated on stock price movements, you know what we mean. Predicting where the market will go is hard enough. But knowing exactly when…that’s nearly impossible. Looking back, assigning causation, and projecting forward, … Continue reading
Bear Witness to the Madness
Second-rate economic data is first-rate news for Wall Street these days. We don’t quite comprehend the logic. But the popular reasoning goes something like this… Good economic data is bad for stocks. For it means the Fed will begin increasing … Continue reading
