Author: David Clamage

If The Stork Brings Babies…What Does The Economy Bring?

The stork isn’t carrying the full bag of money any more…any more than the banks are. Private Credit is growing and growing at a pace that both causes concern as we watch these largely unregulated behemoths move through the economy and excites us as they transact with higher risk tolerance and generally more creativity than traditional […]

Trading Uncertainty for Reality

What is 1,116 pages long and will impact our lives for a very long time?  One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1 in the 119th Congress is that long – that’s 1,023 feet.  Taller than the Eifel Tower at 984 feet, just a bit shorter than the USS Enterprise at 1,092 feet and even longer than the Titanic […]

How About Some Reading… A Roadmap for the Future

I am an economist by education and that means I can point lots of directions simultaneously.  Candidly, they call it “the dismal science” for a simple reason:  The term “the dismal science” is based on the pessimistic predictions of Thomas Malthus, (granted 1834 is a long time ago), who believed that population growth would always outpace food […]