Archives 2011

2011 Volume Issue 1

THE LOCKED IN EFFECT: Complicating the Fed’s (as in Federal Reserve) conduct of monetary policy

2011 Volume Issue 2

U.S. Balance of Payments and the Greatest Puppet Show on Earth: China; the Oil Cartel(s); and energy and the Environment

2011 Volume Issue 3

Miracles or Mayhem: What is the Federal Reserve really doing???

2011 Volume Issue 3a

THE GREAT CREDIT COLLAPSE OF 2008-2011: The Smoking Howitzer (QE 1 and QE 2)

2011 Volume Issue 3b

Who should you trust for the good life, free market capitalism or creeping socialism?

…ah, that is the question

2011 Volume Issue 4

THE BALLAD OF ALAN GREENSPAN: TO DREAM THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED; REDUCE HOUSEHOLD NET WORTH PRIMARILY THROUGH COLLAPSING REAL ESTATE VALUES BY $7 TRILLION THUS NEUTRAZING THE WEALTH EFFECT AND ENDING IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE.

2011 Volume Issue 5

A potential squabble brewing between the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve over Debt: a tale of Interest Rates and Economic Growth

2011 Volume Issue 6

DECEPTION OF PERCEPTION, THE LATEST REPORT ON UNEMPLOYMENT: Worries Grow Over Jobs

2011 Volume Issue 7

Who should you trust for the good life, free market capitalism or creeping socialism?

…ah, that is the question

2011 Volume Issue 8

ANOTHER QUICK, YET PAINFUL WALK THROUGH THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION

2011 Volume Issue 9

WHAT IS LEFT FOR THE FEDERAL RESERVE POLICY MAKERS (FED) TO DO?

Could a QE 3 be meaningful?

2011 Volume Issue 9a

ALRIGHT, ALREADY!

WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN EFFECT ALL THOSE TAX SCHEMES BEING PROPOSED BY BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE OF CONGRESS.

2011 Volume Issue 10

ARE THEY THE ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS OF HYPOCRISY PAR EXCELLENCE: Our beloved rating agencies, bless them all; or have they learned their lesson?

2011 Volume Issue 11

THE ECONOMICS OF CRUDE OIL PRICES AND THE IMPACT OF COMPETITION, OR THE LACK THEREOF

2011 Volume Issue 12

AUGUST EMPLOYMENT REPORT — MAKING SAUSAGE ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND

2011 Volume Issue 13

THE FUTURE GUIDES THE PRESENT; THE DEMOGRAPHIC MAP VERSUS THE HELP WANTED

SECTION OF THE WANT ADS: What will tomorrow’s today look like demographically by 2050?

2011 Volume Issue 14

TAX PROPOSALS HERE, TAX PROPOSALS THERE, TAX PROPOSAL EVERYWHERE…BUT HOW DO WE ANALYZE THEM?

2011 Volume Issue 15

An examination of the failed financial and economic policies of the last few years: Part I of a three-part series; a history lesson from the Great Depression and its similarity to the (current?) Great Recession

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”  George Santayana

2011 Volume Issue 16

A CASE STUDY IN HISTORICAL REVISIONISM; MR. OBAMA’S ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FISCAL POLICIES