by Henry Oliner | Jul 30, 2016 | Economics, Financial
George Gilder explains how the management of our money system has increased inequality. While the trade in goods and services has remained stagnant the volume of trade, and the ensuing profits, in currency trading and financial instruments has grown substantially,...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 9, 2016 | Business, Economics, Financial
While the left claims the greedy 1% led us to financial ruin, years of reflection indicate that wrongheaded regulation and policy had much to do with magnifying the depth of the recession. Deregulation was not the problem, wrong regulation was the problem and Dodd...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 26, 2016 | Economics, Financial
There are a lot of ways to lose money in the stock market, but far fewer effective ways to make money. Looking at two managed accounts over the same time period, one was far more profitable than the other. One had far less turnover than the other, one had no mutual...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 29, 2015 | Economics, Financial, Politics, Social, Taxes
from Kevin Williamson at National Review, We’re Not That Far from a Balanced Budget One, Americans earning $100,000 or more pay basically all of the federal income taxes, about 80 percent. That is far in excess of their portion of national income (“national...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 30, 2015 | Economics, Financial, Foreign policy
from the editors of the Wall Street Journal, Emerging Market Rip Tide: The destabilizing effect of QE threatens global growth at a moment when none of the major economies is firing on all cylinders. By encouraging overinvestment in developing countries, it may have...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 22, 2015 | Economics, Financial
from Forbes Five Years Of Dodd-Frank: ‘Too Big To Fail’ Still Unresolved by Norbert Michel excerpt: The notion that these transactions took place in some shadowy, hidden room of finance, where regulators had no clue what was going on, is absolutely false....
