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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 20, 2024 Dear Reader, Mr. Michael Lebovitz of Real Investment Advice: China, Britain, Europe, and other countries and regions are experiencing sluggish economic growth and, in some cases, contraction. At the same time, the US continues its strong post-pandemic growth pace. Has the US economy diverged from […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 19, 2024 Dear Reader, It is as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise. It is as certain as death and taxes. It is as certain as gravity itself. Here I refer to the granite certainty that politicians — taken as a whole — are wastrels, bounders, jacklegs, jellybellies, blackguards,

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 18, 2024 Dear Reader, The gumshoes at watchhound outfit Open the Books report that: Since 2021, the Biden-Harris administration has spent $267 million on research grants with the term “misinformation” in the proposal. Sure enough, the feds have spent at least $127 million in grants specifically targeted

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 17, 2024 Dear Reader, What if Karl Marx triumphed over Adam Smith? That is: What if socialism “worked” — where capitalism failed? Should the United States take up collectivism on pragmatic grounds of efficiency? Or should it refuse the transaction on abstract grounds of principle? Should it

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 16, 2024 Dear Reader, How does a man descend into bankruptcy? Gradually — then suddenly — in Mr. Hemingway’s famous telling. The United States government has passed beyond bankruptcy’s gradual phase. It has entered bankruptcy’s sudden phase. Reports Schiff Sovereign: “Joe Biden Added $1 Trillion to the

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 13, 2024 Dear Reader, The Secretary of the United States Treasury — Yellen — is “sorry.” Sorry, that is, for her atrocious stewardship of the nation’s finances. Thus she sinks to two knees… all sackcloth and ashes… and confesses that: I am concerned about fiscal sustainability and

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 12, 2024 Dear Reader, Like an evil penny that returneth… a recurring migraine… or a fresh visit from a dreaded mother-in-law… The United States economy cannot shake inflation loose. The November inflation data has come issuing. Here USA Today gives the particulars: Inflation is moving in the

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 11, 2024 Dear Reader, Today I bear the gravest news. On Dec. 20… in a mere nine days… The United States government will partially “shut down” barring fresh congressional funding. If the two political parties cannot sink their differences… Uncle Samuel’s doors will swing partially shut —

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 10, 2024 Dear Reader, What Went Wrong With Capitalism? Author Ruchir Sharma has authored a work bearing that very title. His answer is that nothing went wrong with capitalism. Instead, capitalism itself was wronged. Wronged, that is, by tinkerers and meddlers. In its childhood capitalism was seized

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 09, 2024 Dear Reader, Reports Statista: American households accumulated $2.1 trillion in excess savings between March 2020 and August 2021… Three inflation-plagued years later, Americans have burned through those excess savings, and then some. At the end of September 2024, Americans had collectively saved $291 billion less