What to Do With Your Money Now, Part II
Commercial real estate is a very local matter. If you can find a good building, in good shape, with a reliable tenant, and decent cash flow, it could be a good place for your money.
What to do With Your Money Now
What to do With Your Money Now
Businesses — both private and public — are where the real money is. You can hold an ounce of gold or a bitcoin from here ‘til kingdom come; you will still just have an ounce of gold or a Bitcoin.
Clash of Civilizations
Clash of Civilizations
We offer no opinion on the morality of any of the participants in these regime change wars. But US involvement, sin or not, is likely to be a mistake.
No Big Deal
No Big Deal
Trump’s most important ‘deal’ — to bring federal spending and deficits under control — was never even proposed. The budget could be balanced. But the president has no interest in making that deal.
Everybody Loves a Parade
Everybody Loves a Parade
Aristotle believed that people turned to tyrants when the elites became contemptuous of them and the government became largely dysfunctional.
Power Politics
Power Politics
A society only produces so much wealth. It can then consume it. Or, it can save and invest…so as to produce more in the future. The real ‘political’ question is: who decides?
Another Brick in the Wall
Another Brick in the Wall
Reducing trade deficits also means reducing the number of US dollars that end up in foreign hands. Those dollars are typically recycled into US bonds. That’s the way the fake money model works.
Mobtown
Mobtown
Some things are worse than losing money. Martial law may be one of them.
The Path To $60 Trillion
The Path To $60 Trillion
Our country is ‘doing great.’ So, let’s add trillions in debt — then we’ll have a problem
Girl Fight
Girl Fight
While the catastrophe of US finances grows closer
