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For years after the financial crisis of 2007-2009, investors worried about a second dip; a return to recession and crisis.  Since the tax cuts along with decreases in the regulatory burden, [...]

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The U.S. Department of Labor  just reported that our economy expanded at a 4.1% rate for the second quarter. This is a massive improvement over the 2 – 2.5% rate we were growing just recently.  [...]

Right in the middle of earnings season, the results look fantastic!  Not only are earnings growing, so are revenues; and not by just a little.  Both are advancing at a furious pace.  It all looks [...]

Investors must remember, tariffs are a means to reduce imbalances and unfair trading practices.  They are not meant to be a permanent solution.  They are a way to impose costs on certain trading [...]

“Home of the brave and land of the free”; it’s good to be an American.  Our market-based economy isn’t perfect, but it has elevated so many out of poverty and has provided some of the best living [...]

If we don’t yet have a trade war, we’re at least fighting some increasingly serious skirmishes.  Our side’s calculation is that this is a good time to pressure our trading partners for [...]

The Federal Government tried to stop the merger between AT&T and Time Warner citing restraint of trade and a potential for higher consumer costs.  This argument was soundly rejected.  Content [...]

The stock market continues to be a battle between two competing outlooks.  One forecasts a slow, challenging growth environment for the economy and the other an acceleration.  Some investors even [...]

Crises in the stock market occur rather regularly.  Most pass quickly and represent no fundamental change in the business outlook.  These do offer an opportunity to acquire bargains or perhaps [...]