Category: US Economy

It’s always interest rates…the cost of money!

The cost of money drives everything.  It ultimately determines the price of your home mortgage and that complex inverted lease funding your next solar project.  It can accelerate growth and employment on to the Rocketship Inflation or crush them into dust.  These are unassailable facts.  What is not so clear is where those rates are going under President Trump’s […]

The Election Year Blues

George Soros once said “Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.” and there are few things in life more uncertain than an election.  George went to the London School of Economics, a nice pedigree and it’s widely known the wealthiest […]