Category Archives: MN Gordon
The High Point of China’s Economic Boom
Sometime in the early 1980s, goes the popular lore, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping looked out across the vast people’s communes and pronounced, “To get rich is glorious.” Suddenly, without hesitation, the people put down their rakes, walked off the farm … Continue reading
Your Summer Tax Increase
Oil prices are holding above $106 per barrel. What gives? Wasn’t all the oil fracking supposed to increase production and decrease price? So far, part of this equation has come to be. In fact, the Energy Information Administration’s weekly report, … Continue reading
Safe Investment Losses
The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added 195,000 new jobs to their payrolls in June. Nonetheless, the unemployment rate remained at 7.6 percent, as people entering the workforce subtracted out all job gains. Still, markets were delighted. The DOW … Continue reading
Programs to Control the Uncontrollable
Things are melting up – and melting down – the world over. What’s more, summer’s only just begun. While Americans were dreaming of block parties and beach bashes as they punched out for the Independence Day holiday Wednesday afternoon, Cairo … Continue reading
