If you look at the consumer price index, you would think that the cost of living is very low. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The cost of living for the average person is going up.
– Sung Won Sohn, professor of economics at California State University, Channel Islands.
Milton Friedman, the great popularizer of free markets and “Monetarism”, emphasizing the importance of monetary policy in contrast to Keynes emphasis on fiscal policy, is dead at 94. Friedman was one of the important intellectual voices in the movement towards…
A starting point for becoming knowledgeable about business and finance is simply to read The Wall Street Journal everyday. If you just do that, you’ll find your knowledge and understanding growing all the time and you’ll be way ahead of…
Before the open of the market yesterday (Wednesday) The Labor Department announced (subscription required) that core inflation (“core” excludes food and energy) increased .256% from December to January. Core prices were 2.7% higher compared with last January. The Fed’s desired…
Hypocrisy n. : 1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings or virtues that one does not hold or posess; falseness. 2. An act or instance of such falseness. CNBC and The Wall Street Journal yesterday broke the news that private equity…
Gold closed at $695.80 today according to Bloomberg. Peter Grandich, editor of the Grandich Letter, wrote (subscription required): A near perfect storm has aligned both technically and fundamentally for gold. A test of the 2006 highs around $735 is not a…
Ever since reading Steve Jobs phenomenal graduation speech at Stanford University in 2005 I’ve been a fan and a believer that he was a business leader with a solid moral center. But a startling front page article (subscription required) in…