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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Jan 08, 2025 Dear Reader, Inflation expectations among manufacturers are themselves inflated. These inflationary expectations — in fact — hover at the highest point in 23 months. That is because the cost of industrial inputs are on the jump. And so the Federal Reserve finds itself wedged within […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Jan 07, 2025 Dear Reader, “The MAGA folks are going to be in for a rude awakening.” This is the measured conclusion of Mr. David Stockman. In the early 1980s this fellow directed Gipper Ronnie Reagan’s Office of Management and Budget. Well does this hard-boiled egg know Washington.

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Jan 06, 2025 Dear Reader, Imagine a man sunk impossibly in debt. Here you have a wastrel upon your hands. He cannot keep body and soul united. He is a sinful and contemptible fellow. Thus he opens credit card upon credit card — to stay ahead of debt.

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,