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Fed Quack Treatments are Causing the Stagnation

Posted on September 29, 2017 by MN Gordon

There’s something alluring about cure-alls and quick fixes.  Who doesn’t want a magic panacea to make every illness or discomfort disappear?  Such a yearning once compelled the best and the brightest minds to believe the impossible for over two thousand … Continue reading →

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Janet Yellen’s 78-Month Plan for the National Monetary Policy of the United States

Posted on September 22, 2017 by MN Gordon

Adventures in depravity are nearly always confronted with the unpleasant reality that stopping the degeneracy is much more difficult than starting it.  This realization, and the unsettling feeling that comes with it, usually surfaces just after passing the point of … Continue reading →

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Adventures in Quantitative Tightening

Posted on July 14, 2017 by MN Gordon

All remaining doubts concerning the place the U.S. economy, and its tangled web of international credits and debts, is headed were clarified this week.  On Monday, Mark Yusko, CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, told CNBC that: “…we’re flowing toward … Continue reading →

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Tales from the FOMC Underground

Posted on July 7, 2017 by MN Gordon

Many of today’s economic troubles are due to a fantastic guess.  That the wealth effect of inflated asset prices would stimulate demand in the economy. The premise, as we understand it, was that as stock portfolios bubbled up investors would … Continue reading →

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