by Dave Hoshour | May 12, 2022 | Blog-Investments
Stocks We are almost completely out of stocks in almost all accounts right now because the trend in the market is sharply lower and I think it could continue to drop quite a bit. This is just the fourth time in my career of nearly 40 years that I almost completely...
by Dave Hoshour | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog-Investments
Interest rates are rising, not because the Federal Reserve isn’t trying to do everything in its power to keep them low and finance an explosion in federal debt, but because the “bond vigilantes” are revolting based on a rising inflation rate and a...
by Dave Hoshour | Mar 2, 2021 | Blog-Investments
Growth is Accelerating The federal government is attempting to stimulate growth as much as it can by massive spending, pushing debt to a level relative to the size of the economy that surpasses even WWII. I think you know how I feel about that. This is not WWIII, not...
by Dave Hoshour | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog-Investments
You should care. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is the new economic theory used as justification for the massive spending you are seeing in Washington and ignoring soaring deficits. What is it? It is the theory that government spending creates new money and this new...
by Dave Hoshour | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog-Investments
The WSJ main op-ed, one of the best things you can read on a regular basis, called out the House today on how much of the pending $1.9 trillion COVID relief package has nothing to do with COVID. How much? At least $1.1 trillion, maybe as much as $1.5 trillion if you...
by Dave Hoshour | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog-Investments
If you’re as old as me you remember the high inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s. That inflation was caused by years of very low interest rates and high federal spending in the 1950s for fear the post-war economy would regress to Depression days, then runaway...
