Whatever You Tax You Get Less Of.

The Recent Evidence Increasingly Suggests That An Economic Expansion Is Already Well Under Way, Although An Array Of Influences Unique To This Business Cycle Seems Likely To Moderate Its Speed.

American Consumers Might Benefit If Lenders Provided Greater Mortgage Product Alternatives To The Traditional Fixed-rate Mortgage.

Gold, Unlike All Other Commodities, Is A Currency...and The Major Thrust In The Demand For Gold Is Not For Jewelry. It's Not For Anything Other Than An Escape From What Is Perceived To Be A Fiat Money System, Paper Money, That Seems To Be Deteriorating.

Developing Protectionism Regarding Trade And Our Reluctance To Place Fiscal Policy On A More Sustainable Path Are Threatening What May Well Be Our Most Valued Policy Asset: The Increased Flexibility Of Our Economy, Which Has Fostered Our Extraordinary Resilience To Shocks.

There Are No Easy Choices. Easy Choices Are Long Gone.