Growth Mail Archive
8-5-25: What to Do if Another Market Hurricane Strikes This August
by Gary Alexander August 5, 2025 Last week, I wrote about the reasons why August went from being the best market month for nearly a century (1896 to 1986, in Dow terms) [...]
7-22-25: More Investment Lessons After Nearly 60-Years in the Game (Part 2)
by Gary Alexander July 22, 2025 Last week, on my 80th birthday, I offered five investment lessons from the first half of my life, when the S&P rose 1,245%, but the market [...]
7-15-25: 10 Investment Lessons from 60-Years in the Game
by Gary Alexander July 15, 2025 This morning, I turn 80 – that seems amazing, it happened so fast – so let me claim an old geezer’s prerogative to share 10-investment (and [...]
7-8-25: Where is the U.S. Dollar Headed? – And Does it Matter?
by Gary Alexander July 8, 2025 On July 6, 1785 – 240-years ago this week – the Continental Congress authorized the issuance of the first U.S. dollar, to replace the Spanish “pieces [...]
7-1-25: Technology Has Always Been High-Risk and High-Reward
by Gary Alexander July 1, 2025 Two-centuries ago, in 1825, New York’s Erie Canal opened, but it was already archaic technology. Railroads were just entering America’s industrial tool kit after being born [...]
6-24-25: How Do Markets React to the Outbreak of Major Wars?
by Gary Alexander June 24, 2025 It was on a sleepy Sunday morning 75-years ago, June 25, 1950, that North Korean troops stormed into South Korea, as the first “hot” war of [...]
6-17-25: “We Don’t Believe Your Low Inflation Numbers”
--The Fed, The Media, the American Public, and Gold by Gary Alexander June 17, 2025 The Consumer Price Index (CPI) came out last Wednesday, rising only 0.1% in both the headline number [...]
6-10-25: History Tells Us That America Will Likely Thrive After Crises
by Gary Alexander June 10, 2025 “There Is a Great Deal of Ruin in a Nation.” – Adam Smith, 1777 In rehearsing the 250th anniversary of this great nation, I have been [...]
6-3-25: Rising Debts Limit America’s Growth Potential
by Gary Alexander June 3, 2025 Much of June will be tied up with amending the “One Big Beautiful Bill” to include some spending cuts – strangely absent in the House version [...]
5-28-25: Saluting Some Great Heroes of Economic Freedom…on Flag Day
by Gary Alexander May 28, 2025 On Memorial Day, we honor those brave Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country, preserving freedom for those of us fortunate enough [...]
5-20-25: How Can Poor Nations Grow Rich…Fast?
by Gary Alexander May 20, 2025 We’re celebrating the ongoing 250th birthday of America. We’re now between the “Shot Heard ‘round the World” (April 19, 1775) and the Battle of Bunker Hill [...]
5-13-25: Inflation is up 10-Fold Since LBJ Debased Our Coinage in 1965
by Gary Alexander May 13, 2025 Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a new term (since 1993) for printing paper money out of thin air, but coin-clipping is as old as time. In [...]