Category Archives: Inflation
Warming Up the Printing Presses
Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will add an additional $3.8 trillion on top of what was already projected to be added to the national debt. So instead of the national debt increasing by $22 trillion to $59 trillion over the next decade, it will spike to nearly $63 trillion. Continue reading
Death of the Penny and What this Means for Gold
The death of the penny – a token – may be a practical matter. Why fabricate something at a loss? But, more so, it is the result of decades of reckless deficit spending in Washington. Continue reading
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
Mistakes from the Past
Over the last three weeks something unexpected by the Fed has happened. The yield on the 10-Year Treasury didn’t follow the Fed’s rate cut down. Rather, it did the opposite. It went up. Continue reading
