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Excessive Speculation and Leverage as a new US national Pastime

Monthly Market Commentary: November 1, 2025

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Excessive Speculation and Leverage as a new US national Pastime

According to a recent article by the Guardian (www.theguardian.com), 75% of Americans report soaring prices as Trump claims inflation ‘over.’ The article reads: “Nine months after Donald Trump took office, promising to reduce prices on ‘day one’, a clear majority of Americans say their monthly costs have risen by between $100 and $749, according to…


Patience as an Investment Strategy

My philosopher friend, marcel.a.emmenegger@gmail.com recently made some interesting comments about The Paradox of Corporate Morality  in an essay entitled "Optics as Ethics." He writes: Modern capitalism operates with a peculiar moral compass. Systemic harm is absorbed and normalized. Personal scandal is punished swiftly and without mercy. Nestlé…


Is the Fed already “loosening into Inflation?”

Ryan McMaken writes for the Mises Institute (www.Mises.org) the following: The “inflationists also hope that easy money-policy will somehow reverse the current stagnating trend in employment. In recent months, both President Trump and the usual Wall Street outlets have insisted that the Fed reduce the target policy interest rate to ensure that…


Morality is one of the Pre-Conditions for the Functioning of the Capitalistic System

In a brief essay about Moral Decline: The Path to Currency Collapse, Jonathan Wellum, argues that “In the final analysis, it's just central banks printing money, reducing its value and causing inflation as they support dishonest governments that refuse to be fiscally responsible and continually run massive deficits. Such policies flow from the…


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