- Time To Drain The Fed Swamp. By First Trust, published by First Trust Advisors L.P., Monday Morning Outlook
13 Sep 2017
The Panic of 2008 was damaging in more ways than people think. Yes, there were dramatic losses for investors and homeowners, but these markets have recovered. What hasn’t gone back to normal is the size and scope of Washington DC, especially the Federal Reserve. It’s time for that to change. D.C. institutions got away with […]
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- Making Housing Sane Again, an editorial published in the Wall Street Journal, January 9, 2017
9 Jan 2017
Making Housing Sane Again If you think most equity investors have been in an ebullient mood since Election Day, consider the euphoric owners of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. With both stocks soaring more than 130% since Nov. 8, Fan and Fred shareholders are ready to do the Juju on That Beat in the middle […]
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- Government Payday Choke Hold, published in the Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2016
29 Dec 2016
Government Payday Choke Hold For all the coverage of Donald Trump’s Twitter blasts against one company or another, hardly anyone notices that the Obama Administration has spent years targeting entire industries merely because the left dislikes them. Case in point is the onslaught against payday lenders, and a lawsuit presents an opportunity to expose an […]
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- WHY NOT 100-YEAR U.S. TREASURY BONDS? Let’s snatch fiscal victory from the jaws of defeat By Larry Kudlow on CNBC, December 10, 2016
10 Dec 2016
[CNBC contributor Larry Kudlow urges that the U.S. start issuing much longer maturities of government bonds, possibly experimenting with 50-year debt issuance, and maybe go out as long as 100 years. Kudlow’s a smart guy with a wealth of experience and his article is well worth reading.] If President-elect Donald Trump’s economic growth plan — slashing […]
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- The Puerto Rico Drama Has a Long Way to Run By Alex Pollock published by Real Clear Markets on October 24, 2016
25 Oct 2016
On October 14, the outgoing Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, who is not running for re-election next month, addressed the Oversight Board which is charged by Congress with addressing the disastrous finances of the insolvent government of Puerto Rico. In default on more than a billion dollars of its debt, with no prospects […]
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