Category Archives: MN Gordon

Why U.S. Treasuries are No Longer the Safest Investment in the World

The world’s a humbling place.  It’ll change right before your very eyes and you don’t even know it…until it’s too late.  Where markets are concerned this can be an expensive and chastening lesson. Not long ago it was common knowledge … Continue reading

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More Public Spending Only Hastens the Demise

Kicking off Labor Day weekend last Friday was a report by the Labor Department that, on balance, the U.S. economy failed to create a single job in August.  On the bright side, this also means not a single job was … Continue reading

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Controlling Economic Diarrhea with Adhesive Tape

Some people never learn.  Give a klutz a hammer and he’ll smash his thumb every time. Give a boozehound a bottle of Strawberry Boone’s Farm and he’ll guzzle it down en route to get another and another…until it practically kills … Continue reading

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Clever Ideas to Fix the Economy

Yesterday’s stock market didn’t seem to give a darn but last Friday a notable revision was made.  An important economic mile marker was shifted down and to the right…realigning the economy onto the road to recession. According to the Commerce … Continue reading

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