Monthly Archive: May 2025

Retail Is Fearless: Buy The Dip Is On Steroids

2025-05-21

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2025-05-21

Monday was a record-setting day. Stocks opened down 1% on news that Moody's downgraded the US credit rating to AA. While some perceived the downgrade as problematic, retail investors, aka individuals, bought stocks at the highest rate ever. Per JP Morgan, retail investors purchased a net of $4.1 billion of US stocks in the first …

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Death Of The Dollar: An Eternal Tale

2025-05-21

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2025-05-21

The following paragraph, courtesy of Amazon, reviews the book Death of the Dollar by William Rickenbacker. Death of the Dollar by William F. Rickenbacker is a critical examination of the economic policies and monetary mismanagement that the author argues are eroding the value of the U.S. dollar and threatening financial stability. Rickenbacker contends that the …

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Adam Smith Cannot the Win Tariff War Without Capital

2025-05-21

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2025-05-21

The Wall Street Journal editors have made a monumental error in judgment. In a recent piece, they announced that the Trump administration has lost its trade war against Adam Smith, but there must be free trade in capital goods, not just consumer goods.

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The American Federal Government 21st Bankruptcy Show

2025-05-21

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2025-05-21

Bankruptcy in the short term is painful. In the long term, it is cleansing decades of poor federal government choices.

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Gold/Silver Ratio Signaling Rapid Reversal and Recession Coming

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Mark Thornton appears on Liberty and Finance with Elijah K. Johnson.

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Marxist Theories of Oppression

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Academic scholars tend to use Marxian terms when pointing out what they see as conditions of “oppression,” believing that race and class determine outcomes. However, the real world is not so abstract and things often are not what Marxists believe to be true.

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The Righteous Cause Conquers the World

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Brion McClanahan dismantles the so-called "righteous cause" narrative that shapes modern American history and foreign policy, tracing its roots from Sumner and Lincoln to the war in Iraq.

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Reconstruction Reconsidered

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Wanjiru Njoya exposes how federal intervention fueled racial conflict and dismantled the South's social order—challenging modern myths with historical truth.

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Mercantilism in America: The Trouble with Self-Sufficiency

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

President Trump has invoked the ancient fallacies of mercantilism in fashioning his protectionist trade policies. We will find that mercantilism is just as harmful today than it was hundreds of years ago when it first became Britain‘s national policy.

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MAHA is a Movement of Government Overreach

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Robert Kennedy‘s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) crusade is being promoted as a government-led effort to eliminate health hazards in food and medicine. However, MAHA depends upon government overreach, which ultimately will undermine any good MAHA does.

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Tug-of-War Over the Dollar Continues

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Overview: US stocks and bonds recovered from yesterday's sell-off in Asia and Europe. The Swiss National Bank President Schlegel expressed the views of many Americans when he said on Monday that "There is currently no alternative" to US Treasuries, "and it's not foreseeable that there will be an alternative."  The 10- and 30-Treasury yields finished …

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USA Versus JNJ

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Over the last fourteen years, as we share below, the US government credit rating has slipped from AAA to AA. Moody's was the first to cut the USA from AAA to AA in 2011. Fitch followed in 2023, and Moody's did the same last weekend. Now that the USA government is fully rated AA by … Continue reading »

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How to Achieve Financial Independence and Retire Early (FIRE)

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

The FIRE movement—short for Financial Independence, Retire Early—has gained popularity among those who want more control over their time and financial future. Unlike traditional retirement models, FIRE encourages aggressive saving and disciplined financial planning to reach financial independence far earlier than the typical retirement age. Whether you dream of leaving the 9-to-5 grind in your …

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The Dark Enlightenment Is a Trojan Horse

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

The "dark enlightenment" is simply a variation on the technocracy of "sustainable development" or the "great reset." Technocratic control is the goal in both cases.

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UBS deploys AI analyst clones

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

The UBS logo in the background at the Annual General Meeting in Lucerne on April 10, 2025. Keystone / Urs Flueeler Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle...

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Spain in the Dark: Chronicle of a Foretold Blackout

2025-05-20

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2025-05-20

Centralizing electricity management is probably a mistake. It makes us collectively vulnerable to a single failure or attack and also inefficient.

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MMT’s Barely-Hidden Totalitarian Bias

2025-05-19

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2025-05-19

While Austrian economists have engaged Modern Monetary Theorists on economic terms, one should not forget that this theory promotes totalitarian governance.

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Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years of Failure

2025-05-19

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2025-05-19

Karl Marx still is revered by modern academics as a prophet. However, given Marx‘s penchant for making false predictions, at best he would be a false prophet, someone whose word cannot be trusted.

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Economic Growth and the Stock Market

2025-05-19

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2025-05-19

People often confuse economic growth with growth in the stock market, but while these two things can be related, that is not always the case, especially during inflationary times.

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Top 10 Fintech Companies by Market Valuation in 2025

2025-05-19

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2025-05-19

The global fintech industry has expanded significantly, soaring from about 5,600 companies in 2008 to over 31,800 in 2024, according to German data platform Statista. North America dominates this market, with more than 12,000 fintech companies, followed by Europe with over 9,200 companies, and Asia-Pacific (APAC) region with 6,365. Looking at countries specifically, the US and China are leading fintech hubs, together hosting nine of the world’s ten...

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