Author Archives: MN Gordon

Playing with Fire

The great default is rapidly approaching.  Time is running out.  Like a runaway freight train…there’s no stopping it. To start, the U.S. government is broke.  The only thing keeping the lights on in Washington is $1 trillion per year of … Continue reading

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Where Does the Money Come From?

This week revealed fresh evidence that things may get worse for the economy before they get better.  Obviously, this is not the direction we’d wish to see things go.  But rarely do we get what we wish for. This new … Continue reading

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Tomato Economics

No one quite understands what’s going on with the economy as far as we can tell.  Looking to government reports for answers doesn’t help much either.  In fact, the government’s economic data actually generates more questions than answers. For instance, … Continue reading

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Redistributing Wealth to the Rich

The world’s more unbelievable and fantastical than anything we could imagine.  Look around.  Astounding things are taking place each and every day. For instance, earlier this week China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, paid $28.2 million for Pablo Picasso’s painting of … Continue reading

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