Thoughts from the Front Line - “All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my No. 1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this […]

Howestreet - Twelve years of continuous central bank interventions (2010 to 2022) helped to sustain near-zero interest rates, which increasingly starved capital of conventional investment income/yield—the long-standing engine of compound returns. The finance sector capitalized on the yield void by offering high-fee products that touted elevated returns and on-demand liquidity. Many retail and institutional capital allocators took […]

Armstrong Economics -   John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 book, ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,” argued aggregate demand was too volatile to be stable and would lead to inflation or recessions. His theory honed in on spending as a means of price control. Low aggregate demand, Keynes argues, would lead to high unemployment and […]