by Andrew Moran | Apr 25, 2021 | Columns, Economic Affairs News
President Joe Biden is ostensibly keeping up with one of his 2020 presidential campaign promises. According to various reports, the administration is proposing doubling the capital gains tax rate for wealthy individuals to 39.6%. When an existing surtax on investment...
by Andrew Moran | Nov 15, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Economic Affairs News, International, Taxes
Unremember, unremember all of November. Well, at least for the short-sellers in the financial markets. If you bet against the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the Russell 2000 index this month, you probably lost a handsome chunk of change. After Pfizer...
by Andrew Moran | Oct 21, 2020 | Articles, Economic Affairs News, Politics, Social Issues
The Federal Reserve has recently remodeled the Eccles Building into a comedy club, turning guidance into satire and monetary policy into a joke. Did the U.S. central bank consult with the geniuses behind the satirical website The Babylon Bee? Senior officials at the...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 21, 2020 | Articles, Columns, Economic Affairs News, International
It was a busy week for three of the world’s biggest central banks: the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England (BoE), and the Bank of Japan (BoJ). Despite these institutions presiding in three different continents, they showed their love for low interest rates. So,...
by Andrew Moran | Sep 3, 2020 | Business News, Economic Affairs News, Liberty Nation TV, Politics
Liberty Nation’s Andrew Moran discusses the recent consensus that there is a bubble in the NASDAQ. All the data indicators point to this market being eerily similar to the dot-com catastrophe of twenty years ago....