financial economics

If history is any guide, a sustained lurch to the left will have profoundly negative effects on the American economy.

Today human beings, technology and capital markets operate as a comprehensive problem-solving machine.

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.

There’s plenty to celebrate, even if the national media doesn’t give it much attention.

Thanks to unrelentingly negative news coverage, most of us believe the world is getting steadily worse.

Market cap weighting gives too much power to the largest companies, and the realities start getting blurred. Let me show you what I mean…

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.

Some people are far less ignorant of the big picture than others. And – surprise, surprise – it’s not society’s “elites.”

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…

At times like this, I like to reflect on some of the timeless lessons I have learned over my 20-year investing career.