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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 19, 2024 Dear Reader, The United States economy is largely a “financialized” economy. Financialization: “The increase in size and importance of a country’s financial sector relative to its overall economy.” And as you will see below, the financialized economy is a reverse-Robin Hood economy. It famishes the […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 18, 2024 Dear Reader, Is inflation nearly licked? No, howls Freedom Financial News contributor Jeffrey Tucker: The newest inflation data appears and it is still awful, even worse than before. All told, the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power is down in official data by 22 cents over four

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 15, 2024 Dear Reader, President-elect Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy upon the shoulder. They will direct the freshly constructed “Department of Government Efficiency.” Department of Government Efficiency? I fall from my chair, laughing at the very notion of it. As well erect a Department

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 14, 2024 Dear Reader, Economist Richard Duncan is credited with fabricating the term “creditism.” Many still insist ours is a capitalist system. Yet Mr. Duncan tells them to have another guess. He argues that the capitalist system went into the grave when the gold standard went into

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 13, 2024 Dear Reader, Invoke the term “deep state” in polite company. You will likely be mocked, scolded and ridiculed for trafficking in “conspiracy theories.” You will be denounced as an agent of Satan — or worse, of Donald John Trump. Yet now… even The Atlantic magazine

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 12, 2024 Dear Reader, Is President-elect Trump inheriting a “turd” economy? Money man Edward Dowd: There is government spending and government hiring to paper over what is truly a bad economy for the average man… The real economy has been rolling over, and we are just waiting

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 11, 2024 Dear Reader, My beat is money, markets, politics… and how they all tuck together. Yet today is Veteran’s Day. And so I turn from the world of manna, from the election, from the rest of it to honor America’s martial veterans. Specifically, I recall the

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 08, 2024 Dear Reader, Mr. Barry Ritholz of the eponymous Ritholtz Wealth Management: We were warned that deficit spending would crowd out private capital, choke off innovation and new company formation; it will send the costs of U.S. borrowing skyrocketing higher, making the debt impossible to manage;

Dear Reader, Democratic partisans have plunged into apoplexies, rages and despondencies. They simply cannot endure an additional four years of Adolf Hitler. I observed a video in which one young woman — a young Black woman — shrieked that she was afraid to sleep. Why? Because she claimed she feared she would awaken a slave