Managing The Economic Cycle (Part 2) Despite rumors to the contrary, Economic Cycles have not been repealed. As the current Economic Expansion ages, the Fed and the U.S. government will face increasingly difficult economic challenges. Expansions always have been followed by contractions. This time will not be...
Managing The Economic Cycle (Part 1) An Economic Cycle has four stages. Simply stated, there’s (1) an expansion that reaches (2) a peak and results in (3) a contraction that reaches (4) a trough. Then the cycle repeats. Sometimes an expansion is rapid and robust, reaching...
America at War The U.S. has increasingly weaponized sanctions and tariffs in an effort to force hostile countries to bend or surrender to American demands. Realists refer to this as waging war. America is at war. In pursuing victory, America has slapped onerous sanctions on Iran, Venezuela, North...
If you’re the “average” American, 2017 tax reform means that your taxes have gone down a bit … although they’ve gone up for those unfortunates, whether or not “average,” who live in the wrong States and cities. Taxes soon eventually will be going up for everyone....
America’s economy has been on a roll since the Great Recession of 2009. GDP has been on a steady rise with average annual increases in excess of 2{29ea29b64b10057f61377b2c087cd5b7537a0cd24da4295a308b0bf589469f35}. It has yet to record even a single negative quarter. Job creation has exceeded projections with the...
