Growth Mail Archive
2-23-21: February 23, 2020 – The Birth of the Blues
by Gary Alexander February 23, 2021 We’re approaching the key one-year anniversaries of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a time when you and I and many of our friends will [...]
2-17-21: Forget the Impeachment! Let’s Remember Lincoln & Washington
by Gary Alexander February 17, 2021 Today is the mid-point between Lincoln’s and Washington’s Birthday. When I went to school in the 1950s, we celebrated both Lincoln’s (February 12) and Washington’s (February 22) birthdays [...]
2-9-21: (Almost) Everything Has Happened Before
by Gary Alexander February 9, 2021 A year ago, Donald Trump was acquitted in his first impeachment trial, long before any American had heard the term “Covid-19.” This week, we begin a [...]
2-2-21: The Formula for a Return to Growth (or Further Retreat) in 2021
by Gary Alexander February 2, 2021 The first cut at 2020 growth is in, and it looks like the U.S. economy (GDP) shrank by 3.5% in 2020, its worst showing since 1946 [...]
1-26-21: Pick the Policies That Work Best, Mr. President!
by Gary Alexander January 26, 2021 “It doesn’t matter if a Cat is black or white, as long as it catches Mice.” – Deng Xiaoping, explaining why labeling his policies “capitalist” or [...]
1-20-21: A Post-Mortem on the Trump Stock Market Years
by Gary Alexander January 20, 2021 “…markets are plunging… If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.” – Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 9, 2016 [...]
1-12-21: Democrats Control the Capitol, so Prepare for Profits Ahead!
by Gary Alexander January 12, 2021 I’m not liking it, and I’m not even believing it, but when the results came in from the Georgia Senate runoffs late Tuesday night and the [...]
1-5-21: Low (1%) Inflation in 2020? Don’t Bet on It!
by Gary Alexander January 5, 2021 The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2% in November, the latest month on record. For the past 12 months, the CPI rose just 1.1%, far below [...]
12-29-20: The Pandemic That Saved America
by Gary Alexander December 29, 2020 “[N]othing but the Yellow Fever… could have saved the United States from a total Revolution …” – John Adams Our nation wasn’t even five years old [...]
12-22-20: The Economic Miracle Nobody is Celebrating
by Gary Alexander December 22, 2020 When the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met last week, they released the third in a quarterly series of forecasts for the full-year GDP and jobless [...]
12-15-20: My Top 10 New Books for A Crazy Year Soon Ending
by Gary Alexander December 15, 2020 For several decades, I’ve read at least 100 good books a year, since I know that the Internet and Cable TV keep trying to trivialize our [...]
12-8-20: 2020: The Worst Year Ever? (Not by a Long Shot)
by Gary Alexander December 8, 2020 This year, I have let a lot of magazine subscriptions lapse. Their relentless negativism was just too much to take. In October, two venerable magazines printed [...]