Growth Mail Archive
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 [...]
5-6-25: First-Year Flops Are Normal in Market History
by Gary Alexander May 6, 2025 We’re having a troublesome 2025 so far, but over most of the last 200-years, these post-election years – any president’s first year in office, first or [...]
4-29-25: Downbeat Sentiment (and Magazine Covers) are Contrarian Buy Signals
by Gary Alexander April 29, 2025 “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett Investor sentiment is way down since late February – and [...]
4-22-25: Three Mid-April Shocks Launched Three “Lost Decades”
by Gary Alexander April 22, 2025 There were three mid-April shocks at the start of three decades in the last century – April in 1930, 1970 and 2000 – which led to [...]
4-15-25: Happy Tax Day and 250th Birthday, America
by Gary Alexander April 15, 2025 It’s Tax Day today. I just sent a sizable check to my Aunt Iris and Uncle Sam, and I suppose many of you did, too. It [...]
4-8-25: Trade Deficits are Not Like Budget Deficits…or Tariffs
by Gary Alexander April 8, 2025 If you’ve followed these columns any amount of time, you know I’m an evangelist for turning around our high and rising annual budget deficits before it’s [...]
4-1-25: Gold is Quietly Dominating the Financial World…Once Again
by Gary Alexander April 1, 2025 The first quarter is officially over. At press time, I don’t have Monday’s final figures to report, but as of Friday’s close, gold and silver are [...]