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The Signs Aren’t Good for Inflation, Jobs, or Growth… Oh, the weather outside is frightful… Lest you think I’m a few months behind—or way too many months early—in prepping for Xmas, I am not. It’s March, 2025… and the weather outside is looking most frightful. Dreadful, really. And by weather, I mean the US economy [Read More] …

All the Ways to Save… I don’t know what to make of Elon Musk and his grandiosely misnamed Department of Government Efficiency—a make-believe agency that, according to various and numerous reports, including Elon’s own words, has found a lot of make-believe fraud. But I will say this: Here in the middle of tax season, DOGE [Read More] …

Readers’ Gold Questions—Answered. February 7, 2013 will not stand out in anyone’s mind—unless maybe February 7 is your birthday. And if so, Happy Birthday! I know I’m a couple weeks late. Anyway… that date serves as a great example of “better late than never,” which will ultimately bring us ‘round to gold. First, though, we [Read More] …

This Changes Everything…. Tax season—version 2025—is upon us. And it arrives at exactly the same moment Elon Musk and his team of Blue’s Clues detectives are rifling through the federal government… Constitutional crisis aside, Elon’s team has cast a great deal of sunshine onto the dark corners in which federal spending is highly suspect. I’m [Read More] …

America Has Its First Pro-Crypto President. Ten steps up, half a step back. But damn, those half steps sure do cause a great deal of consternation, handwringing, finger-pointing, whining, and certainty that all is surely lost. You might have missed this last week… but Javier Milei, Argentina’s presidential bad-boy and enthusiastic champion of anarcho-capitalism, lent [Read More] …