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Big Government Returns with a Vengeance
Statism has made its return, and it is uglier than ever before. A cash-strapped Washington is writing checks to...
Americans Get a Little Breathing Room Come Tax Season
There are two things in life that humans cannot escape (or so the saying goes): death and taxes. While the...
Fed’s Massive Pump Priming Made the Crash Worse
In the classic 1953 French picture, The Wages of Fear, an oil company hires four men to deliver supplies of...
CA First to Suspend Evictions and Foreclosures Amid COVID-19
U.S. state governments are taking historic action to prevent a full-blown economic collapse from the COVID-19...
Nowhere To Hide: Fear and Loathing in the Bond Market
The bond market had been metastasizing into a bubble long before the coronapanic pounded global financial...
Swamponomics: Market Cap of Trump Era Wiped Out
On the Margin When you hear the term “margin calls,” you cannot help but think of the classic movies depicting...
Central Banks’ COVID-19 Response Will Make Everything Worse
In the classic Giuseppe Verdi opera, La Traviata, a dying Violetta suddenly proclaims to the world that her pain...
Wall Street: Bull, Bear, or Deer in the Headlights?
Well, that was a fun 11-year bull run while it lasted. It looks like we have come back down to reality and...