by wpadmin | Mar 25, 2026 | Perspectives
Most Americans are usually apolitical. As Bill Maher was recently quoting Neilsen data on his show, fewer than one percent of all Americans watch any of the three political networks (Fox, CNN or Ms Now) in a given month. However, it does get them stirring if their...
by wpadmin | Feb 24, 2026 | Perspectives
On April 2, 2025, President Trump declared “Liberation Day”, announcing that he would beassessing tariffs on other countries by his own criteria which later became whims. The stock marketplunged 19 percent by the Standards and Poors 500 index before recovering...
by wpadmin | Feb 2, 2026 | Perspectives
Since the first of the year, gold has gone up in value by over 16 percent. Silver is up by over 53 percent. The Standard & Poor’s index is up just over 1 percent. The trends are interrelated. Historically, gold was seen as a barometer of world stress. In earlier...
by wpadmin | Dec 23, 2025 | Perspectives
In the short term, the forecasts we find most credible call for a continuation of the present into the future. If things are going a certain way, simply predict they will continue to do so. Such predictions are not really a forecast. They are extrapolating the present...
by wpadmin | Nov 25, 2025 | Perspectives
As has been stated before, some see demography as destiny. This is due to population growth being, along with productivity and number of hours worked, the key components of economic growth as quoted by Paul Samuelson, the Nobel Prize economist. Against that backdrop,...
by wpadmin | Nov 3, 2025 | Perspectives
Billy Wilder was a writer, director and producer of a number of motion pictures, 7 of which won Academy Awards. In one of his last interviews, addressing statements by others that he was past his prime said, “People say Billy Wilder is out of touch with the times. Who...
