Growth Mail Archive
8-27-24: Deciphering Our Deceptive Jobs Data over Labor Day Weekend
by Gary Alexander August 27, 2024 Back in January, I wrote a column here, titled, “The Monthly Jobs Data is Bogus and Premature… Yet it Still Moves Markets: Why?” Apparently, traders are [...]
8-20-24: Zombie Price Controls Revived (by Economic Dummkopfs)
by Gary Alexander August 20, 2024 Before Jackson Hole (to be held later this week), there were secret meetings to devalue the dollar and enforce wage and price controls (held at Camp [...]
8-13-24: The Perma-Bears are Roaring Again
by Gary Alexander August 13, 2024 It’s as predictable as hurricanes in August and September. Markets get volatile; the perma-bears predict that this is the beginning of the “worst crash ever;” the [...]
8-6-24: The Current Medal Count Between the Big-3 Economies
by Gary Alexander August 6, 2024 Today marks the mid-point of summer – the 46th of 91 days between June 21 and September 20 – and the market is doing something it [...]
7-30-24: The American “Income Gap” is Much Smaller Than Advertised
by Gary Alexander July 30, 2024 Article I, Section II of the U.S. Constitution mandates a head count every decade, and further states that “The actual enumeration shall be made within three [...]
7-23-24: “Mr. Powell, Tear Down This Interest Rate Wall!”
by Gary Alexander July 23, 2024 The White House just raised its array of numbers across the board – and showed no shame in doing so, despite the upcoming election. The Office [...]
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 [...]