The election is over. I am left with two very contradictory feelings. First is the one of appreciation – every four years we peacefully replace our government. I remember my…
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In Defense of Capitalism
I am traveling this weekend to our nation’s capital with my almost-10-year-old son, Jonah. I’m giving a speech on Monday at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (the presentation…
Of course, there are many critics of the Fed who say the second round of quantitative easing is wrong and even harmful. “The failure of QE2 doesn’t worry me. It’s…
My writing is a byproduct of my investment process, I think through writing. I don’t do movie reviews and don’t watch Michael Moore’s movies. A Denver Post reporter invited me…
I never write about politics. First of all, it bores me. Second, its guaranteed to upset about 53% of my readers, which normally I would not mind, but since I won’t…
Government intervention in the financial system via the Troubled Asset Relief Program made me sick to my stomach, but without it, there is a real possibility that our economy would…
Don’t compound them with bailout for mortgage ‘victims’ The housing bubble that was fueled by multidecade low interest rates priced many people out of their dream homes. But instead of…
We live in the society where, to our detriment, being politically correct is often more important than being correct. So I am going to come out and make a politically…
Royal Dutch Shell’s $7.5 billion sale to Gazprom may have been coerced by the Russian government. Vitaliy Katsenelson looks at the Sakhalin-2 sale and examines the long-term implications if Russia…