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Jerry Bowyer is a radio and television talk show host. Mr. Bowyer also serves as the Chief Economist for the BenchMark Financial Network. You can reach him through his web page: http://www.jerrybowyer.com.
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Jerry Bowyer (May 10, 2012)
A few years ago, frustrated with the low quality of economic discussion in our nation, I decided that I needed to do something about it. As I did not have the power to cajole... more
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Jerry Bowyer (May 04, 2012)
I am America’s amygdala. I reside in the temporal lobe of the human brain, near the hippocampus. There are two of me in each normal human brain, and we are both shaped like... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Apr 28, 2012)
In my last installment in this series I argued that talk show host Glenn Beck was raising legitimate concerns about the state of the nation, but that he had a... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Apr 14, 2012)
Glenn Beck’s analyses of the history of authoritarian movements has many people concerned, and justifiably so. Most recently Beck has been laying out the ways in which the... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Apr 05, 2012)
I’ve known Rick Santorum for 22 years, having first met him in 1990 before he’d won his first campaign for Congress. I interviewed him on WORD-FM, an evangelical Christian... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Mar 31, 2012)
In the previous article in this series I pointed out that even after recent dramatic sell-offs gold prices are still higher than one would expect if one saw them as... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Mar 23, 2012)
Last August I wrote a short series for Forbes.com on valuation techniques for gold, (Some Thoughts For The Gold Bulls, The Case Against Buying Gold,... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Mar 09, 2012)
In a previous column, I took the President to task for his repeated use, most recently in his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, of the phrase “my brother’s... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Mar 03, 2012)
The great Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek had an important insight in Prices and Production which should cause us to be on the lookout for some severe... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Feb 24, 2012)
In the outstanding 1980s miniseries about the development of the first atomic bomb, Day One, the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard is quoted as saying that he always keeps... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Feb 10, 2012)
There are lots of things that people think are in the Bible, but really are not. For example, “God helps those who help themselves” is not there, nor is “Cleanliness is next... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Feb 03, 2012)
We’ve already taken a look at the ways in which modern Keynesian economics and its nephew modern portfolio theory insulate finance from economics by failing to use the... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Jan 30, 2012)
Why does everybody start talking about systemic risk, after a crisis has already started? If we define a systemic risk event as something large enough to affect the entire... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Jan 17, 2012)
I’ve been writing lately about right tail risk, which refers to the possibility of the occurrence of unusual and unexpected events which might make the whole global economy... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Jan 07, 2012)
Christmas season is as good a time as ever to remind you that a probability distribution has two tails. Event distributions have been getting a lot of attention over the past... more
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Jerry Bowyer (Jan 01, 2012)
Christ was born into the Pagan world of Rome, a world of cyclical despair. As historian of science Stanley Jaki spent his life documenting, the pagan world view was one of... more