Check this Out: (We'll be talking about this chart and many other things Social Security related on the live stream today at noon eastern. Here's the link for the "Big" channel if you will.  And here's the link for the back up channel.  I...

(Preaching and politics coming up....so make sure you unsubscribe now!) I don't know why it bothers me so when people look to Volcker as a modern-day hero for ridding us of inflation in 1982  But it does tick me off, especially given that the inflation numbers...

(I am about to offend someone... unsubscribe right now!  Before you get offended!  Just click the bottom of this email for the link to do this. Do it now!) I had to chuckle a bit when I read Brian Wesbury's latest bit on the Fed where he wrote:  "The...

I am hearing about people delaying retirement due to the bear market.  "My probability of success has fallen!" They'll say.  Now while that's actually true, I think what they're missing is how Monte Carlo scenarios that the vast majority of financial...

From 1975 to 1977 the price of coffee more than doubled. High coffee prices were attributed to a freeze in Brazil in 1975 which decreased crop yields. "Coffee prices can't go much higher because people won't buy it," said a grocer... You wanna bet?  "Several store...