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Dave Says, Buying A House When You’re Broke Turns A Blessing Into A Burden

America Is Drowning In Debt: 5 Steps To Get Out Of It

Growth Will Be Faster Than Fed Forecast And Fed Will Not Surprise Markets With Interest Rate Changes

David L. Bahnsen

David L. Bahnsen

Help Workers And The Economy With Lower Employment Taxes

Daniel J. Mitchell

Daniel J. Mitchell

ECB To Keep Negative Rates For "At Least" Another Year: Treasuries Rally

Department Store Sales Increase Faster Than Internet Sales

Pruitt, Carson Trapped By The Trappings of Power

Thursday June 14

Why Great Companies May Not Be Great Stocks

Media Says Trump/Kim Meeting A Failure, But Markets Say Success

“My Retirement Plan Is Heaven” Is Both Bad Theology And Bad Finance

Starbucks' Howard Schultz Owes The U.S. Nothing, And Is Too Good For Politics

The First Thing To Look For When Your Child Chooses A Major

C. Theodore Hicks II.

Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill Of Rights (TABOR) Should Be A Role Model For The Nation

Daniel J. Mitchell

Free Money Calculation: Fed Will Give $36.93 Billion Of Taxpayer Money To Banks

Powell Didn’t Wreck The Market

Fed Raises Rates, Recession Risk To Rise In Response

Political Calculations

10K Boomers Are Joining Medicare Every Day, And They’re In For A Shock

Frank Vernuccio

Wednesday June 13

On Governance, It’s Two Thumbs Down For Netflix

Dear Dave, Am I Obliged To Help With Funeral Costs For A Dad Who Abandoned Us?

Don't Fear Deflation

Daniel J. McLaughlin

Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand Is The Hand Of God

Kim Accepts Trump's Offer To Meet In US And Trump Will Go To North Korea

Trump’s Zero-Tariff Proposal: Throwaway Line Or Serious Offer?

Daniel J. Mitchell

Will Fed Derail The Good Times?

Philadelphia Soda Tax Underperforming Lowered Expectations

Political Calculations

Apple Innovates And Ascends Toward $1 Trillion Market Cap

Tuesday June 12

Trump And The G-7: Right Outcome, Wrong Reason

Daniel J. Mitchell

Trump Took Correct Message To G7 But All The Children Must Behave Better

Will North Korea Choose Peace?

Trumponomics: What Is It Exactly?

Darren Brady Nelson

The WSJ Asks "Is The Booming Job Market A Problem?" I Ask "Are Jobs Even Booming?"

Either GE Or Its Dividend, And Possibly Both, Are Set To Shrink

Political Calculations

3 Ways To Abort A Business Failure Without Losing Your Shirt

Generating Rising Income In A Rising-Rate Market

Markets Are Signaling Trump/Un Summit Success

Monday June 11

Swiss Referendum: Banksters Dodge A Bullet (For Now)

Darren Brady Nelson

'Velocity Of Money' Is Superfluous, And Gresham's Law Is A Myth

Doing A Wedding Without Getting Into Debt

Good Entrepreneurs Are Good Environmentalists: How Rockefeller Helped Save Whales And Natural Resources

Trump’s Energy Socialism

Daniel J. Mitchell

Trade Dispute: Trump Told Macron The EU Is "Worse" Than China

North Korea: Guns For Butter?

Alternative Futures For The S&P 500 In Week 1 Of June 2018

Political Calculations

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