Income

Martinis are like debt… The Keynesian multiplier has taken up division… Kiyosaki plug (not sure what you have in mind, Chris). Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted March 04, 2025 Dear Reader, “One martini is alright,” counseled the late scribbler James Thurber. “Two is too many,” he continued… “and three is not enough.” As […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted March 03, 2025 Dear Reader, Late last week Mr. Zelensky arrived in Washington. He was to conclude a natural resources accord with the United States. He departed Washington without an accord. He departed instead with a tail tucked humiliatingly between his legs. On Friday, before the watching world,

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 28, 2025 Dear Reader, United States household debt exceeded $18 trillion in 2024’s final quarter — a record high. Delinquency rates are on the jump… and Americans are plunging into arrears at rates unseen since the Great Financial Crisis. Meantime, investment — the locomotive of economic expansion

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 27, 2025 Dear Reader, President Trump recently affixed his distinctive signature to Executive Order 14192. From which: The Order requires that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed.   Ten

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 26, 2025 Dear Reader, Salon: “DOGE’s mass layoffs spark fears of broader economic ripple effect.” The devil Trump and demon Musk are visiting evil upon the nation’s saintly public servants. Under satanic onslaught, some 85,000 worthies of the federal labor force confront unemployment — we are informed.

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 25, 2025 Dear Reader, The president intends to accompany Mr. Musk to the United States Army installation at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Fort Knox is where doddering old Uncle Samuel allegedly stashes half his gold — some 4,582 metric tons, by rights. And the two gentlemen are out

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 24, 2025 Dear Reader, “Are we heading toward a constitutional crisis?,” asks CBS News. “Is the US government facing a constitutional crisis?,” wonders USA Today. The Atlantic claims it knows the answer — and it ranges beyond all questioning: ‘“Constitutional crisis’ is an understatement.” The president’s critics

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 21, 2025 Dear Reader, I notice the United States Secretary of Defense — Hegseth — proposes an annual 8% scissoring of the military budget. The 2024 defense budget ran to $814.4 billion. An 8% limitation would hand back $67.3 billion to the besieged American taxpayer this fiscal

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 20, 2025 Dear Reader, Freshly crowned United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Within the next 12 months, we are going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet.” What on Earth does he mean? For answers we must first examine the profit and loss statements

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 19, 2025 Dear Reader, “This might be the biggest fraud in history,” asserts Mr. Musk. History is to its neck with frauds. Only a fraud of truly stupendous dimensions could overtop them all. This fraud — evidently — does. To which fraud does the South African native