Tag Archives: dollar
Salting the Earth with Money
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan opened his mouth last Friday to caution on the perils of quantitative easing and artificially suppressed interest rates. Greenspan also cogitated upon how to put the worms back into the already opened can. What … Continue reading
Just a Few Nuts a Day Makes All the Difference
Did you know that one in six Americans age 65 and older lives in poverty? We discovered this while doing research for a new publication we’re working on about how to retire rich. Quite frankly, we find this figure to … Continue reading
The Biggest Baddest Bubble of All
“The Fed is ‘like a wet blanket all over the economy,”’ said David Stockman on The Daily Ticker on Tuesday. “Everything is being micromanaged by them … they will fail and take private enterprise economy down with it.” The former … Continue reading
Open Season on Savers
Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises called it time preference. That is, the assumption that, all else being equal, people prefer attainment of a given end sooner rather than later. People prefer present satisfaction over future satisfaction. These days’ people’s time … Continue reading
