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Affluent Christian Investor | March 19, 2024

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July 26, 2021 |

Letter On The Politicization Of Corporations

I am part of a team that designs and manages investment funds. My colleagues and I have become increasingly concerned about the politicization of publicly traded companies. Rather than boycott or complain, however, we decided to talk to the managers … Read More

July 26, 2021 |

Peak Of The Fake Bull Market

We are probably very close to the peak of this ersatz bull market and economy. Peak vaccination distribution, along with the peak optimism about the vanquished pandemic and the re-opening of the economy. U.S. corporations are experiencing peak profit … Read More

July 26, 2021 |

Woodrow Wilson’s Administrative State vs. Gold

Statists like Woodrow Wilson and the very influential economist Irving Fisher desired, lobbied, and worked to establish an Administrative State, which would upend the gold standard.

Similar to Woodrow Wilson, economist Irving Fisher believed that technocrats in an Administrative … Read More

July 26, 2021 |

Dividends, Energy, And Crypto

A trend that has to be avoided

At the core of a dividend, growth philosophy is, well, dividend growth.  It is one thing to have a very subpar income flow from market indices (the S&P 500 ETF yield is 1.27% right … Read More

July 26, 2021 |

Whose Side Are You On?

“Whose side are you on?” sounds like a schoolyard challenge. Increasingly, however, it’s a valid question Americans have been asking about the nation’s political, cultural, and educational elites.

The unease is unlike the usual controversies arising from differences in opinion … Read More

July 19, 2021 |

Media, Left Ignore These Dangers

The media has refused to dwell on the reality that America and its allies are imperiled as never before since the Biden Administration took office.

Russia has attacked a key pipeline (don’t believe the criminal organization story; nothing happens in … Read More

July 19, 2021 |

Mark Skousen On FreedomFest And How To Measure The Whole Economy

Dr. Mark Skousen of Chapman University has accomplished a rare achievement in economics: he has created an alternative to GDP and persuaded the Bureau of Economic Analysis to track and report it along with GDP. The theoretical foundations of Gross … Read More

July 19, 2021 |

Quantifying The Quantitative, Or Making Easy The Easing

most of you, before the financial crisis, I had never heard nor uttered the term “quantitative easing.” This somehow became completely standard fare in the lexicon of finance in the last 13 years, and it is now uttered by people … Read More

July 19, 2021 |

The Gold Standard Means A Rising Standard Of Living

The Gold Standard gives a monetary system the best stable foundation; no other civilization has found a better way to do this. The Gold Standard, to our knowledge, creates the underpinning for an economic system under Natural Law. This … Read More

July 19, 2021 |

Book Review: Brian Domitrovic Reveals The Monetary Genius Of Arthur Laffer

In his classic 1992 book about the Ronald Reagan 1980s (and so much more), The Seven Fat Years, Robert Bartley described the great Arthur Laffer describing the universality of credit. It goes like this:

“Laffer would draw a tiny black box in the … Read More

July 12, 2021 |

Steve Forbes: Time To Worry About Inflation, Not Hyperinflation

In a recent interview for my podcast, Meeting of Minds With Jerry Bowyer, Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine, Chairman of the Board of its parent company, and former presidential candidate, joined me to talk about the rising risk of inflation. … Read More

July 12, 2021 |

UFOs Rescue Biden

By any measure, the Biden Administration is in deep trouble.

Since taking office, The U.S. Southern Border has devolved into chaos. The Chinese and Russians are returning to aggressive acts that had not been seen since the Obama-Biden White … Read More

July 12, 2021 |

Read This Classical Economist’s 200 Year Old Warning About Paper Money

In 1817, economist David Ricardo issued the same warning as Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard (see Milton Friedman’s Flaw) gave years later. Ricardo acknowledged the usefulness of paper currency, but only as long as it is ties absolutely to … Read More

July 12, 2021 |

How Central Banks Murdered The Markets

The Japanese Government Bond market is nearly $10 trillion in size. It is the 2nd biggest bond market in the world. However, it comes as a shock that this humongous market barely trades any longer.

The government of Japan has … Read More

July 12, 2021 |

Everything There Is To Know About The Stock Market

Today I am going to do something an investment manager who writes about investing all the time ought to do more – I am going to talk about the market.

Now maybe you think I do that all the time, … Read More

July 6, 2021 |

AT&T CEO: We’re Ill Equipped For Politics, And We’re Spending A Lot Of Time On It

With contributions by Charles Bowyer.

Should the management of AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company, be spending “a lot of time” on political issues? Most people would likely say no: AT&T is a corporation, not a Super PAC. Yet at the company’s … Read More