Tag: FINANCING

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 […]

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 […]