The greatest threat to the financial markets is the growing populist movements that threaten to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs: our amazing free market system.
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Economic Trends
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Activists and local politicians pledged to do everything in their power to make life difficult for Amazon… so the company pulled out of the New York City deal yesterday.
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If history is any guide, a sustained lurch to the left will have profoundly negative effects on the American economy.
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China is far from embracing the West. Instead it has embarked on a systematic campaign to dethrone the U.S. as the world’s only superpower.
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For this audience of aristocratic Brits, Brexit was about one thing and one thing only: The reassertion of British national sovereignty in the face of a creeping EU bureaucracy.
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Americans recognize 1776 as the year the Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. But there’s another reason 1776 is a turning point in history…
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Most of the “have-nots” in this country will not work, save, invest and compound their money.
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Let’s sum up what has happened since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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Tariff Man is not faster than a speeding bullet. Instead, he has the power to send our $30 trillion stock market into a tailspin.
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Warren Buffett is an icon of American capitalism, but there is a terrific irony about his success.