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The Illusion of Transparency in 21st Century Equities

Warren Buffett solidly trounced the S&P 500 for the first 35 years of his career, and then something terrible happened to him. While in the past, he was able to receive stock tips ahead of time, in 2000 the US government began to require uniform disclosure patterns for earnings information. Buffet had been merely arbitraging […]

The Deadly Tradeoff Between Learning and Safety

Although learning things the hard way is often seen as a benchmark of failure, it often might be the only way to learn. Particularly in situations of first time discovery, repeated failure is all but necessary to produce a meaningful new outcome. Learning things the hard way should only be seen as failure when one […]

Why the Free Market is Not Taking Advantage of You

The central claim of this article is that aside from regulatory barriers, the market will never leave normal people in a worse state than they would be in without the market. This is made to combat the frequent claims that the market is unfair or that people would somehow be better off without it. Workers […]

Is Government Intervention the Solution to the Great AI Replacement?

Most careers today have some possibility of being diminished or replaced by artificial intelligence. This has sparked great fears among many citizens and academics that most people will end up without a job and business elites will keep getting richer. They believe that there will be a vast structural surge of unemployment in which the […]

Germany’s Painfully Boring Economic Decline

While it’s been known for many years that Germany’s economy is in poor health, the debate about the cause is quite contentious. Some claim that the government should have stepped in earlier while others claim that the government was the problem the whole time. Numerous German governments have tried to tackle this problem, but to […]

​​The Austrian Mindset and the Ambiguous Future

One of the key tenets of Austrian economics is a deep focus on process rather than outcomes. While many other forms of economic or political theory have a stronger emphasis on results, Austrian economics is unique in that it believes that the best results will ultimately arise from the enablement of good processes rather than […]

Why Equities Just Might not be the Same Anymore

While for decades, the historically high returns of the stock market have been used to justify putting more money into the stock market, some underlying factors have changed that make this constant growth story no longer as sure of a narrative. While total returns have been buoyed by several massive companies that manage to keep […]

Schiff on EGSI Financial: Digital Money Won’t Feed You

Peter recently Ed Siddell on The Retirement Trainer podcast to walk listeners through how capital flows, political promises, and central bank policy shape the dollar — and why none of it bodes well for the unprepared saver. He frames the dollar’s past strength as a function of market performance and capital attraction, warns that recent […]

The Lobbying Paradox: How Free Speech Can Undermine Economic Freedom

Lobbying is blamed for a multitude of evils by people from every area of the political spectrum. While it is extremely unpopular, its role in shaping the US’s regulation and national character is undeniable. This seems like a non-statement, but the normalization of lobbying as it is currently done has greatly damaged both America’s institutions […]

How the Bull Moose Undermined the Bull Markets

Teddy Roosevelt is simultaneously loved and reviled by both parties. His enigmatic legacy comes as a result of his stances that maddened even his own party at the time, along with his unprecedented use of presidential power. He simultaneously attacked corporations, other countries, and racial equality, all while creating the internationally involved vision of America […]