Growth Mail Archive
This is where you can find all of our Growth Mail articles from Gary Alexander.
3-31-20: We Just Adopted “Modern Monetary Theory” (Like it Or Not)
By Gary Alexander March 31, 2020 The market makes no sense anymore – The Wall Street Journal proclaimed “a new bull market” last Thursday after the Dow rose 23% in three days [...]
3-24-20: Black Swans Attack Us About Once Per Decade
by Gary Alexander March 24, 2020 The “Black Swan” concept was popularized by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book by that name. His theory – that “black swan events” come out [...]
3-17-20: History Indicates That This Market Will Recover…Fast
By Gary Alexander March 17, 2020 The 2009-2020 record-long bull-market finally ended after nearly 11 years, with the S&P 500 peaking at 3,393.52 at 2:40 pm on February 19, 2020, then falling [...]
3-10-20: Are We Being Scared Senseless? (Or Scared Backed to Our Senses?)
by Gary Alexander March 10, 2020 So far, the coronavirus has killed around 3,000 people, mostly in China, and a handful in America, yet the stock market here has responded with its [...]
3-3-20: The Media Make Bad News Sound Worse
by Gary Alexander March 3, 2020 The headlines and comments I heard last week almost all dealt in superlatives…the “worst” this and that. A couple of examples: “Dow plunges 1,100, worst point [...]
2-25-20: The U.S. Economy is “In a Good Place” (Says Jerome Powell)
by Gary Alexander February 25, 2020 America has been in a “Goldilocks” economy for over a decade – neither too hot nor too cold, neither a boom nor a bust, and that’s [...]
2-19-20: Europe Will Recover … When PIGS Fly
by Gary Alexander February 19, 2020 Don’t look now, but some of Europe’s former PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain) are flying. While everyone is concerned about the coronavirus in China, I [...]
2-11-20: Will the Coronavirus Infect This Bull Market?
by Gary Alexander February 11, 2020 I just got off a cruise ship. Many others weren’t so lucky. They were detained indefinitely due to a suspected outbreak of the coronavirus among some [...]
2-4-20: Ending the Scourge of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse…is Bullish
By Gary Alexander February 4, 2020 Many youths are making a big deal out of the mess that we elders have left their generation. Teenagers lecture us about climate change. There is [...]
1-28-20: America Absorbed Three Huge Waves of New Workers in the Last 60 Years
by Gary Alexander January 28, 2020 The employment data just keeps getting better, month by month and week by week. For instance, the number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped [...]
1-22-20: A Tale of Two Markets – The Hot NASDAQ, the Cool Dow
January 22, 2020 So far this year, the NASDAQ Composite is up 4.64% (through Friday), but the small-stock Russell 2000 is up only 1.87%. In fact, the Russell 2000 went two weeks [...]
1-14-20: Is the Dow Entering “Escape Velocity” or “Cruising Speed”?
January 14, 2020 Last Friday, the Dow peaked above 29,000 for a few minutes then scuttled below that level to close at 28,823.77. There’s something about new round numbers that seems daunting [...]