Tag Archives: janet yellen

Playing with Fire

The great default is rapidly approaching.  Time is running out.  Like a runaway freight train…there’s no stopping it. To start, the U.S. government is broke.  The only thing keeping the lights on in Washington is $1 trillion per year of … Continue reading

Posted in Government Debt, MN Gordon | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Economic Frankenstein

According to the Department of Labor, 148,000 jobs were created in September.  The experts thought the number of new jobs would be closer to 180,000.  Still, the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percent to 7.2 percent. No doubt, … Continue reading

Posted in Economy, MN Gordon | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The New Era of Fed Activism

The basic characteristic of an overextended government is that its institutions are rotten.  Take the U.S. Post Office, for instance.  It lost $15.9 billion in 2012.  That’s over $43.5 million per day – flushed down the toilet – for an … Continue reading

Posted in MN Gordon, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Janet Yellen’s Bad Idea

Yesterday something quite remarkable happened.  House Republicans and President Obama talked.  We don’t know what it was they talked about.  But, perhaps, it had something to do with raising the debt ceiling. Wall Street was elated.  The DOW and the … Continue reading

Posted in MN Gordon, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment