Revisiting Old Haunts
I've written about 80 pieces for LinkedIn, (and this website) and I thought I would take a look back to see how they've held up. What...
A Better Deal Than Annuities
In the universe of investment products marketed to the retail investor, few present as poor a value as the annuity. Many a salesperson's...
Revisiting Retail Real Estate
One of the areas I've avoided investing in for the past few years is retail based real estate. I wrote about this issue some time ago....
On General Electric's Downfall
Few companies in American or even global history have a story to tell like General Electric. From its founding by one of the legends of...
The Old Remedies Won't Work
A debilitating nostalgia for the past permeates our economics today. There is a longing for simpler times and it occurs to me that it's...
Revisiting Labor Participation
After years of pummeling this largely insignificant statistic into some soft minds, paper trained partisans have begun to wonder why the...
The Debt Scold's Lament (Slight Return)
(Image from an obscure website) The recently passed Tax "Reform" package, which is thought to increase the National Debt by another...
Year End Talk For 2017
What a year. The markets showed little in the way of volatility, even if everything else seemed wired for it. Given that low volatility,...
Q: Does Cutting Taxes Raise Revenue?
A: Can you read a chart? I got into a spirited contretempts with one Daniel Lacalle, a "Chief Economist" for a Spanish investment firm....
SHE Stoops To Conquer
The proliferation of Exchange Traded Funds reached ludicrous proportions a while ago. As we saw with the boom in Mutual Funds as the...
