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‘Stuffing Their Mouths with Gold’ — Selling the Biden/Yellen Tax Cartel Andrew Stuttaford © Kevin Lamarque/Reuters President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 29, 2021. At the time of the establishment of Britain’s National Health Service, Aneurin Bevan, Labour’s Health Minister, faced serious opposition from, among others, top doctors unenthusiastic at the ...

A “storm” swept through the US government bond market on Friday, sending a key measure of long-term borrowing costs to the highest level since last February. Treasuries dropped in overnight trading after a large sale of long-dated bond futures in Asia, according to people familiar with the matter. Yields on the benchmark 10-year note, a key marker across global asset markets, jumped to 1.63 per cent, having traded around 1.53 per cent the day before. Analysts said the scale of the move unde...

Boom, then Bust? February 20, 2021, 8:22 AM·36 min read Well, the S&P may not have done much this week, but there were clear signs and signals that the conditions fueling the current bubble(s) are going to continue — and that the bubble(s) themselves are still bubbling away. Elon Musk, in some ways the man of the bubble (I do hope that comment doesn’t disqualify me from some space tourism), got to the point. Billionaire Elon Musk defended Tesla Inc.’s $1.5 billion Bitcoin investment on T...

Larry Kudlow To Join The Bahnsen Group Wealth Management Firm Former White House National Economic Council Director, Larry Kudlow, is joining The Bahnsen Group, a $2.6 billion national wealth management firm with offices in New York City and Newport Beach, California, as an economic advisor. “Larry has been a mentor to me for many years, both personally and professionally. We both share a love of free markets, and Larry has over forty years of experience in public policy and macroeconomics th...

The Green Bubble February 13, 2021, 8:24 AM·36 min read Yes, I am going to talk about bubbles again, but once again about one specific bubble: the bubble in anything (supposedly) green, particularly if it can be tied to the war against climate change. Like many of the asset-price bubbles of our current moment, this one is not entirely irrational. Not only are green assets being “revalued” (to use a term that implies rather more calculation than is really the case) in the light of the gener...

Fun and GameStop Andrew Stuttaford © Nick Zieminski/Reuters Outside a GameStop store in New York City, January 27, 2021. National Review’s Daniel Tenreiro has been doing such good work on GameStop (see links below) that I was going to ignore that particular dumpster fire and concentrate on the latestpronouncements by Larry Fink. Fink is the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world with $8.7 trillion under management. Fink is also an oligarch’...

Now to icelands capital record of it which has become a surprising magnet for street art colorful murals murals can be found throughout the city thanks in no small part to artists are real now we travel to iceland to check out her latest contribution. reykjavik is home to a thriving street art scene. most of the buildings along the citys main shopping streets are adorned with the feasting and street art. the tourists love and. many house owners commission artists to design their facades. he has ...

The very month he was inaugurated and months before any of his policies took place. the hypocrisy is breathtaking, even for romney. >> joining they now is msnbc crystal ball. i disagree with stephanie. it is not breathtaking for romney. it is exactly what the romney campaign does every day, all the time. its entirely predictable. >> youre not shocked and surprised by this, lawrence? >> no. >> your jaw isnt dropping? >> no. >> it reminds me of what he tried to do with his capital record, too. sam...

>> youre not shocked and surprised by this, lawrence? >> no. >> your jaw isnt dropping? >> no. >> it reminds me of what he tried to do with his capital record, too. same deal. they want to take credit for all of the jobs gains from bane from the time he was there to eternity. but the losses tint happen while he was there. so its this very selective cherry-picking of the facts. thats actually the best that they do is when theyre cherry-picking facts. other times when hes talking about obama going...