inflation

“I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” – Wayne Gretzky, hockey legend If you compare a cryptocurrency to a

From J Taylor’s Gold, Energy, and Tech Stocks newsletter: Stocks, commodities, silver, and gold were all up. My Inflation/Deflation Index hit a new high as

From Jay Taylor’s Gold, Energy, and Tech Stocks newsletter:  If there was one word that caught the mainstream market off guard in 2021 it was

Paris during the Great Depression was full of unemployed people — and apparently it was awesome. As the story goes, the City of Light circa

Almost alone among the world’s serious nations, Germany has scenes like this within living memory: During the 1923 Weimar Republic hyperinflation, newly-destitute Germans burned their

So you’re driving to work, obsessing about how much it just cost to fill the tank of your SUV and how much it sucks to

Australia has been in the news lately over its aggressive response to the pandemic.  But the bigger Down Under story might end up being interest

After decades of stagnation, wages are finally rising. McDonald’s, believe it or not, has made the whole $15 minimum wage movement obsolete by starting its

Years (and years) ago, I was an unskilled 17- year-old who needed a job. So I drove out to a “foundry” (a factory that makes

Solar panels are basically microprocessors, so it’s not a surprise that they’ve been following their own version of Moore’s Law, declining in price by 5%-10%

Here in the US, prices are rising, packages are shrinking and shelves are emptying. This is annoying, but it’s not (yet) the stuff of revolutions.

Towards the end of financial bubbles, two things generally happen. First, legitimate ways to put capital to work become scarce as prices outrun expected cash

The prices of a lot of things are up these days, which fits the common definition of “inflation.” Meanwhile, an increasing number of products are

There’s never been a generation as influential, for good or ill, as today’s Baby Boomers. So our mass retirement over the next decade should, in