Growth Mail Archive
2-19-25: A President’s Day Formula for Soaring Tax Revenues!
by Gary Alexander February 19, 2025 President’s Day this year (Monday, February 17) marked the midpoint between Lincoln’s birthday (February 12) and Washington’s birthday (February 22). When I was in school, those [...]
2-11-25: Comparing Cruising Stocks from Long Ago to Now
by Gary Alexander February 11, 2025 On January 28th, 2025, the day I began sailing on the latest Jazz Cruise, stock for Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), the parent company for the cruise [...]
2-4-25: Is a Monopoly Always Bad? How Can We Tell?
by Gary Alexander February 4, 2025 As we continue to celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s birth, I want to fulfill a promise I made in my year-end book reviews. My final [...]
1-28-25: Is This the Most Pro-Growth Administration Since Reagan – or Coolidge?
by Gary Alexander January 28, 2025 ““The chief business of the American people is business.” -- President Calvin Coolidge, January 17, 1925 A century ago, President Calvin Coolidge, in a speech to [...]
1-22-25: The Case for Recycling These Columns on an Annual Basis
by Gary Alexander January 22, 2025 Last weekend, I was listening to one of my favorite old-time music shows and the songs sounded familiar, so I looked up their play list from [...]
1-14-25: Benchmarks for Gold, U.S. Stocks and China in Mid-January
by Gary Alexander January 14, 2025 Today, I’ll cover Gold, U.S. stocks and China, as all have notable anniversaries in mid-January. #1-Gold Fueled America’s Industrial Revolution & Conquered Inflation 150 years ago, [...]
1-7-25: Recalling January 6th and All That Jazz
by Gary Alexander January 7, 2025 Yesterday was January 6th, when the new Congress (the 119th) met to tally the Electoral College votes so that President-elect Trump is cleared for Inauguration in [...]
12-31-24: A Report Card on the First Quarter of the 21st Century
by Gary Alexander December 31, 2024 With just one more trading day left in 2024, it’s too early to issue a final report card for 2024, much less December, nor that tardy [...]
12-24-24: My Top 10 (or 12) Books From 2024 – For Profiting from 2025
by Gary Alexander December 24, 2024 I’ve been delivering these Top 10 book lists here each Christmas since 2018. These lists began as gift ideas for my college-age grandchildren in 2015 then [...]
12-17-24: Santa Claus is Coming to Wall Street … Starting This Week?
by Gary Alexander December 17, 2024 The second half of December begins now. The 16th is the central day of a 31-day month, marking the start of the annual “Santa Claus Rally.” [...]
12-10-24: Happy 250th Birthday, America! To Keep Growing, Have More Kids!
by Gary Alexander December 10, 2024 This Friday, December 13, 2024, marks the first of several 250th birthday parties for America, since organized armies of Americans began fighting for freedom during this [...]
12-3-24: Seeds of Great Fortunes are Often Sown in Times of Great Trouble
by Gary Alexander December 3, 2024 At the 50th Annual New Orleans Investment Conference (November 20-23), I couldn’t help remembering the events of 1974, when the conference was born. I wasn’t there, [...]