Growth Mail Archive
This is where you can find all of our Growth Mail articles from Gary Alexander.
8-26-25: Labor Day Time Bomb: Fewer Births = Fewer Workers (and Lower Benefits)
by Gary Alexander August 26, 2025 It’s time for my annual Labor Day report on the nature of work – beyond the headlines. While market traders, political pundits and a clueless media [...]
8-12-25: Two Freaky Friday the 13th Markets Changed America
by Gary Alexander August 12, 2025 In the last two-weeks, I’ve covered the positives and negatives of historical August market hurricanes, and how August went from being the market’s best month for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]