Growth Mail Archive
7-16-24: “The Week That Was” vs. “Rhyming History”
by Gary Alexander July 16, 2024 “History does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.” – Mark Twain With everyone’s eyes glued to cable TV news, as usual, I want to [...]
7-9-24: Clear-Eyed Optimists Convene at Freedom Fest This Week
by Gary Alexander July 9, 2024 I have heard people rant and rave and bellow That we’re done, and we might as well be dead, But I’m just a [...]
7-2-24: There’s a Lot for Americans to Celebrate This July 4th
(Despite the Dismal Presidential Debate)
by Gary Alexander July 2, 2024 Two top stock indexes hit new all-time highs on Friday morning after the Fed’s favorite inflation indicator – the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index – indicated [...]
6-25-24: Keep Investing – Even During World War III
by Gary Alexander June 25, 2024 I’m against war and would do anything I could to bring peace to Ukraine, the Middle East and other hot spots, but the sad truth is [...]
6-18-24: The Data-Dependent Fed Relies on Deceptive Data to Meet its Misleading Mandates
by Gary Alexander June 18, 2024 In 1977, Congress created “dual mandates” for the Federal Reserve by amending the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Fed’s Open Market Committee to maintain the [...]
6-11-24: High Tech Stocks Can Create (or Crater) Fortunes
by Gary Alexander June 11, 2024 A century ago this week, June 10-13, 1924, Cleveland hosted the first of its three Republican national conventions. (The others were 1936 and 2016, when Trump [...]
6-4-24: America’s New D-Day: The Day Debt Doubled Growth
by Gary Alexander June 4, 2024 This week we celebrate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1944, by honoring those few remaining heroes that survived that harrowing day on the beaches [...]
5-29-24: Remembering Our Dark Summers 50 and 100 Years Ago
by Gary Alexander May 29, 2024 Memorial Day was first observed on May 30, 1868, as Decoration Day, to honor 620,000 lost Civil War soldiers who died in battle or in related [...]
5-21-24: It’s May – The Month for Marketing Marxism
by Gary Alexander May 21, 2024 A decade ago (May 6, 2014), I wrote a column here, “Happy Birthday, Karl Marx…Now, Get Lost,” based on the dual birthdays of the original brainiac [...]
5-14-24: It’s Time for Trade-Offs More Than Solutions
by Gary Alexander May 14, 2024 It’s a tough pill to swallow in the middle of an election year, but we need a lot fewer grand solutions to life’s big challenges and [...]
5-7-24: Why the U.S. is an Economic and Investment Oasis – And Likely Will Remain So
by Gary Alexander May 7, 2024 As we approach the 80th anniversary of D-Day in June and the beginning of the end for the Axis powers in World War II, today marks [...]
4-30-24: Slower GDP Growth Surprised Analysts (But Not Us)
by Gary Alexander April 30, 2024 At the beginning of this month (in “Is the U.S. Economy Really Growing at 3.4%?” Growth Mail, April 2, 2024), I made the case that the [...]