Growth Mail Archive
2-18-26: A President’s Day Retrospective on How Politics Impact Markets
by Gary Alexander February 18, 2026 The last seven-days delivered no fewer than seven-holidays, averaging one per-day. First came Lincoln’s Birthday (February 12), which was a distinct holiday in my youth, before [...]
2-10-26: At Dow 50k, Will We Fear “Big Numbers” Again?
by Gary Alexander February 10, 2026 Last Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke the 50,000 barrier for the first time. Will the Dow just sail on toward 60,000, or will it [...]
2-3-26: What’s Behind the Surge (then Collapse) in Gold and Silver?
by Gary Alexander February 3, 2026 Through last Thursday’s open, gold and silver were soaring to new record highs, by giant steps, with gold reaching $5,586 at its peak, then sinking to [...]
1-27-26: Black Swans May Shock Us, But the Market Ignores Them
by Gary Alexander January 27, 2026 During and just after 9/11, Nassim Taleb, a Lebanese-born former options trader and quantitative analyst wrote a book called “Fooled by Randomness,” and then he amended [...]
1-21-26: Trump 2.1 Shocks the Pessimistic Pundits
by Gary Alexander January 21, 2026 This column was posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s first day in office. Ironically, during the same month a year [...]
1-13-26: As Birth Rates Shrink, Demography Defines Our Destiny
by Gary Alexander January 13, 2026 As Louis Navellier has often reminded us, an economy needs population growth and new family formation to generate economic growth. As appealing as it sounds to [...]
1-6-26: The First Quarter of the 21st Century – in Review
by Gary Alexander January 6, 2026 According to the calendar purists, each century begins with Year #1 (like 1901 or 2001, not 1900 or 2000), since “there was no year zero.” That’s [...]
12-30-25: U.S. GDP is Now Flirting With 5% Growth Rates in 2026
by Gary Alexander December 30, 2025 Last week’s revision in GDP statistics revealed a surprisingly robust 4.3% annualized growth rate in the third-quarter, following +3.8% in the second quarter, averaging 4% growth [...]
12-23-25: My Top 10 Books from 2025 (Part 2: Conclusion)
by Gary Alexander December 25, 2025 Christmas morning races toward us on Thursday morning. Last week, I ran down the first six of my 10-recommended new books (published in 2025). In this [...]
12-16-25: My Top 10 List of Best Books in 2025 (Part 1)
by Gary Alexander December 16, 2025 This year marks the 8th edition of my year-end column of “10 best books,” which began as a Christmas list of books for my college-age grandchildren [...]
12-9-25: Storms Make the News, but Clear Skies are the Norm
by Gary Alexander December 9, 2025 “Potent Storm Is Expected to Drench the Pacific Northwest – A ‘very impressive’ source of moisture from an atmospheric river… is forecast on more than a [...]
12-2-25: Keep an Eye on the “Other Dow” – the Transport Index
by Gary Alexander December 2, 2025 Many of us with a long history of following the economic newsletter community devoured the superb writings of Richard Russell (1924-2016) in his “Dow Theory Letters,” [...]