On this past Saturday, May 2nd, 2020, the legendary investor-businessman, Warren Buffett, held his much anticipated ‘Annual Shareholder Meeting’ for Berkshir...

We are living through some ‘Interesting Times’ in the vein of the Chinese curse, meaning some very challenging times which will test our collective mettle, a...

This Bull Market has been in full flight, galloping headlong while smashing record after record. Institutional and private investors are giddy with delight, ...

There are enough troubles roiling the major economies today to set one’s teeth on edge. This is a time of regressive leaders, and their disruptive policies, ...

The economic noise now-a-days is, as with everything else, dominated by America’s current economic status, followed by the distant rumblings from China. But ...

For obvious reasons, all governments want to maintain sustainable and possibly endless growth in their economies as their political fortunes are in a large m...

‘Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it’ – Winston Churchill It’s no secret that Donald Trump would love to be the next Ronald Reagan ...

There are a slew of statements coming out at this time regarding the US economy that at times seem to be pointing in conflicting directions from the same sou...

Recently the Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, confirmed he had gone from a much criticized ‘hawk’ to a sudden ‘dove’, in the space of a couple of mon...

As the year 2018 heads for the history books, it will be remembered as the year of extraordinary political and economic turbulence. One could say that Americ...

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the grand vision of Republican President Ronald Reagan. In his words, a tri-country ‘accord’ that would e...

For a long time, we have been very skeptical of the path that the U.S. Federal Reserve (the 'Fed') has steered the American and the major global economies on...

Through what seems like unnatural effort, as bi-partisan agreements over the recent past decades have been increasingly unthinkable, the U.S. law-makers agre...

About 9 years ago, after the greatest financial-economic crisis of modern times in late 2008, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) led the major Central Banks of th...

Donald J. Trump became the improbable President of the United States on the back of some very aggressive promises to the American people. These promises were...

To those of us who follow these things, the past few years have been a study in the improbable becoming main-stream. In economic governance globally, after t...

The global economy managed to survive 2016 without a devastating crash or blowout, so far, and to our surprise, considering the flocks of black swans that sw...

The latest economic and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers for the major economies were not reassuring. Even the United States which was touted by the Fede...

On June 1st, 2016, OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Secretary General Angela Gurria gave the following assessment in her remarks ...

To borrow a phrase from the American constitution and paraphrase, ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident’ – Central Banks have gone insane, because after y...