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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Jan 03, 2025 Dear Reader, Has the United States economy wallowed in recession since 2022? An outrageous question, you thunder. All official data wars with it. Consider: 2022’s gross domestic product rose 11.9% over 2021’s gross domestic product. 2023’s gross domestic product rose 6.28% over 2022’s gross domestic […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Jan 02, 2025 Dear Reader, The Gregorian calendar has scrolled to 2025 — for good — or ill. As a keen observer of market affairs, I am duty-bound to hazard a 2025 market forecast… such as it is. So today I fetch my crystal ball from storage, blow

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 31, 2024 Dear Reader, It is Dec. 31 — New Year’s Eve — an evening of high revelry. Yet the nation’s flags run halfway up the mast today. And black crepe drapes beneath official windows. That is because the Archangel Gabriel has blown his horn. He has

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 30, 2024 Dear Reader, “The bond markets are revolting.” This is the claim of former Wall Street money man Edward Dowd. Yet against which evils are bond markets revolting, Mr. Dowd? Here is his answer: The fiscal deliriums of the Biden administration. Mr. Dowd believes the present

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 23, 2024 Dear Reader, With the pleasure of repeating myself: On Dec. 11, I wrote: Will the federal government “shut down” on Dec. 20? The answer — of course — is no. What politician will risk blame for a government shutdown… five days prior to Christmas? He

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