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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 03, 2024 Dear Reader, Mr. Lance Roberts, he of Real Investment Advice: Investor exuberance has rarely been so optimistic… Consumer confidence in higher stock prices in the next year remains at the highest since 2018, following the 2017 “Trump” tax cuts. Meantime, never have American households plunged […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Dec 02, 2024 Dear Reader, Why was Mr. Trump so overwhelmingly elected? I believe the answer reduces largely to essential economics. Prior to his election, some 96% of Americans feared for the United States economy. Yet consumer consumption — said to represent 70% of the gross domestic product

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 29, 2024 Dear Reader, Reports The Times of London: Gold, it seems, just can’t be ignored any more. The prospect of falling US interest rates, a decline in the dollar and worries about America’s debt sustainability should lead to more institutional and retail money flocking into gold…

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 27, 2024 Dear Reader, The United States Treasury — and its kissing-cousin Federal Reserve — moan and sob about inflation. “Oh no, inflation is damaging the dollar. Inflation is impoverishing the American people. Boo hoo hoo. So sorry. So sad.” Yet the tears are the crocodile’s tears.

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 26, 2024 Dear Reader, The New York Times informs us that Sleepy Joe may be toying with doomsday: Several officials… suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 25, 2024 Dear Reader, Explains Forbes:  The United States is facing a fiscal crisis of historic proportions. Ballooning deficits, runaway debt service costs, and the risk of a bond market meltdown are pushing the nation toward uncharted territory. Traditional solutions, whether austerity, tax hikes, or controlled inflation,

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 22, 2024 Dear Reader, The calendar reads Nov. 22. This day, 61 years ago, the assassin’s bullet sent President John Fitzgerald Kennedy over the rainbow. Bookshelves groan beneath the bulk of books claiming it was a conspiracy. Some argue the Central Intelligence Agency did it. Others argue

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 21, 2024 Dear Reader, Mr. Jason Trennert, he of Strategas Research Partners: Forcefully keeping interest rates low from 2008 through 2021 led to a variety of economic sins and unintended consequences, not the least of which was that the average guy with a savings account received no

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 20, 2024 Dear Reader, “Hey Trump, you want peace in Ukraine? Haha, good luck with that. We’re throwing you this hot potato.” That is the outgoing Biden administration’s message for the incoming Trump administration. Four days ago the Biden administration authorized Ukraine to assault Mother Russia with

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