Richard Benson archives 11/09/2009 Twilight Zone Economy 09/17/2009 The Housing Tsunami’s Second Wave 07/09/2009 Hard Times 03/20/2009 Economy: In the Eye of a Hurricane 02/06/2009 Keynes, Upside Down 12/19/2008 Uncle Sam May Grab Your Gold if You're Not Careful 09/24/2008 Trillion $ Treasury Deficits: Truth & Consequences 08/12/2008 How Much Will Gov't Bailouts Actually Cost... 07/31/2008 US Tax Revenues Go Missing 07/16/2008 Is Your Money Safe? 06/13/2008 With Inflation, There's No Free Lunch 05/28/2008 The Fed's Medicine is Toxic 05/07/2008 Tax Rebates Mean Blood in the Shark-Infested Water 04/08/2008 The Economy's Summer Holiday... 03/14/2008 The Magic Mirror Economy 02/11/2008 Liquidity Looked in the Mirror But Insolvency Stared Back 01/23/2008 An Economic Heart Attack Brought on by Sugar & Fat 12/07/2007 ...Last Hurrah Before Big Sucking Sound 10/29/2007 When Crumbling Credit Meets Deadly Leverage 09/17/2007 The Recession is Here 07/27/2007 Swim With the Sharks but Risk Being Eaten Alive 07/04/2007 Independence Day is Here, But... 05/26/2007 How the Government Creates Jobs 03/29/2007 Inflation & The Ironic Productivity Tax 02/23/2007 Subprime Titanic Hits Iceberg: Wall Street Abandons Ship 12/04/2006 The Dollar Dam is Breaking 11/10/2006 When the Home Equity Cookie Jar is Empty 09/29/2006 It's Deal or No Deal... 08/01/2006 Inflation Non-Cents 07/17/2006 Don't Roll The Dice On Wall Street 06/14/2006 Bernanke Scares Pavlov's Sheep 05/08/2006 Dollars on Sale, 30 Percent Off 04/04/2006 EEE and Six Months to Housing Hell 01/09/2006 Beyond Keynes to Inflation 11/15/2005 When Profits Go Poof! 10/07/2005 Squeezing Americans Dry 09/12/2005 Inflation Raising Its Ugly Head 08/19/2005 Slaughter Of The Housing Speculators 08/03/2005 China... Big Journeys Begin with Small Steps 07/08/2005 Goodbye Middle Class; Hello House Poor 06/07/2005 Death of The Carry Trade 05/12/2005 Keeping your stash in cash 04/08/2005 Oil for dollars, and dollars for US deficit 04/05/2005 America's Tribute 02/28/2005 Hotel "Debt" California 01/27/2005 Will Central Banks Ever Say No To America? 01/13/2005 Mirror, mirror on the wall... 12/29/2004 Inflation Disinformation 12/02/2004 When Our Dollars Come Marching Home 11/05/2004 Home Values Built on Rotten Foundations 10/12/2004 Government Gifts & Monty Hall Paradox 09/18/2004 Complacency and the Rain Dance for Money 08/26/2004 Oiling the Wheels of Inflation 07/30/2004 Money Created "Out of Thin Air" 07/09/2004 Joe Six-Pack's Reality Check 07/01/2004 Interest Rates Stay 'Real Easy' 06/18/2004 Inflation: The Silent Tax 06/04/2004 Wither the Dollar 05/21/2004 The Fed and Pavlov's Sheep 05/16/2004 Investing in China is Russian Roulette 05/07/2004 The Fed's Inflationary Cocktail 04/14/2004 Using the Consumer Price Index to Rob Americans Blind 04/01/2004 The financial markets are leveraged for a crash 03/25/2004 The Productivity Miracle & Other Myths & Fairy Tales 03/16/2004 The Fed Loves Power & Creating Profits for Finance Companies 02/27/2004 Comparative Advantage: Destruction of American Industry 02/24/2004 The Fed's policy: Punish Savers & Rob the Retired 02/13/2004 Debt vs. Income: At the Point of No Return 01/21/2004 The Currency War 01/05/2004 Exporting Inflation: "The Paradox of Low Money Growth" 12/09/2003 Taking a "Holiday" from the Dollar 12/01/2003 Pricing and Valuing Financial Assets - It's a great time to sell! 11/17/2003 Building a Record Trade Deficit isn't Easy 11/03/2003 Economic Recovery or Stimu-Less?