Markets

May 27, 2003 at 00:00

So Soros says he is short the dollar and long several currencies that have no explicit link to the dollar. Including gold. But this would seem to indicate that he…

May 19, 2003 at 00:00

Just Another Bubble? There has been a lot of news and editorial comment this past week about real estate. And, after lengthy albeit shallow discussions, the talking heads typically conclude…

May 12, 2003 at 00:00

So who are the enemies? By tipping their positions so clearly, the Retro-Socialists surely thought that the alignment of their welfare state with the Islamic radical would compromise America's hegemony.…

May 07, 2003 at 00:00

The big fraud settlement is seen by the masses to be nothing but a big fraud in itself. Steal billions, and you just have to kick a percentage back to…

May 16, 2003 at 00:00

Is a 70 year study directly applicable to an individual investor? Most people don't have enough money to invest until they are at least in their 30's or 40's. How…

Jul 14, 2003 at 00:00

Because people were prudent and because money was hard, governments found wars difficult to finance and thus they tended to be limited in scope and certainly never involved the mindless…

Jul 04, 2003 at 00:00

That very modern sounding fudge turned out to be the basis for two decades of ad hoc expediency which started with bootleggers and bellhop stock pickers and ended up sowing…

Jun 16, 2003 at 00:00

The absurdities include a laughable miscasting of the events of the 1930s - there was no Murray Rothbard at work here, evidently - including an endorsement of a series of…

Jun 04, 2003 at 00:00

Why is it that, unlike the natural sciences - where progress can be admittedly hard-won and where innumerable false trails can still lead to widespread delusion about the mechanics of…

Jul 13, 2003 at 00:00

What's behind the veritably explosion in the US money supply? The answer is that Greenspan obviously believes that deflation is a continuing threat. So let's face it, the creation of…