Growth Mail Archive
3-31-26: When Spring Feels Like More Winter
by Gary Alexander March 31, 2026 “Now is the Winter of our Discontent ….” – Shakespeare, “Richard III” (opening), 1597 “If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Shelley, “Ode to [...]
3-24-26: With Wars and High Oil Prices, Why is Gold Lower?
by Gary Alexander March 24, 2026 With wars and inflation, why is gold lower? Short answer: Gold is only lower short-term, as the Fed looks like they will keep rates high, and [...]
3-17-26: Ireland is Europe’s Strongest Economy – Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
by Gary Alexander March 17, 2026 In 2025, Ireland won the gold medal for growth in Europe, as its GDP soared 10.7% for the full year, with low inflation (under 2%), and [...]
3-10-26: Will AI Really Destroy America’s Job Market?
by Gary Alexander March 10, 2026 Hardly a week goes by without a new warning that AI will costs millions of jobs – heck, maybe even 300-million jobs by 2030. One early [...]
3-3-26: The Seeds of Growth Were Planted 250 Years Ago…
by Gary Alexander March 3, 2026 In the first quarter of 1776, we saw three world-changing books (the first was more of a pamphlet) which changed the world, with the third-book planting [...]
2-24-26: Don’t Panic, NASDAQ Investors: “The NAZ” Will Rise Again
by Gary Alexander February 24, 2026 NASDAQ (and technology stocks in general), are like a finely tuned sports car. They can run circles around your grandmother’s Oldsmobile (the Dow), but they tend [...]
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 [...]