“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”   – PLATO “A good president is one who gets elected.”   – ADOLPH MENJOU, IN THE 1948 FILM STATE OF THE UNION “The world needs honest men more… Read More

“The shale/tight oil boom in the United States is not a temporary bubble, but the most important revolution in the oil sector in decades.”  -FROM OIL: THE NEXT REVOLUTION, BY THE BELFER CENTER AT HARVARD’S KENNEDY SCHOOL POINTS TO PONDER 1.  Fed Chairman… Read More

“Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard.  Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.”  -MURRAY ROTHBARD, ECONOMIST AND PROMINENT PROPONENT OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. Read More

“The US can pay any debt it has because we can always print the money to do that.” -ALAN GREENSPAN POINTS TO PONDER Special message: First of all, my Evergreen colleagues and I would like to wish all EVA readers a… Read More

“I think that if we don’t get these politicians to come together, we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.” -ERSKINE BOWLES In the wake of the US presidential election, it’s been interesting to listen to fellow Americans wax political on the issues facing… Read More

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all lessons that history has to teach.” -ALDOUS HUXLEY POINTS TO PONDER 1.  The initial report on third-quarter GDP showed a respectable 2.7% growth rate, reinforcing… Read More

“When is becomes serious, you must lie.” -JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, PRESIDENT OF THE EURO GROUP, THE ORGANIZATION OF EU FINANCE MINISTERS THAT EFFECTIVELY CONTROLS THE EURO CURRENCY It’s been my long-held belief, based on personal experience, that it really is possible to defy the laws of physics.   You… Read More

“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital” (as well as) “the ease of difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.” -JOHN F. KENNEDY POINTS… Read More

“By a continuing process of inflation, Governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens…Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.” -JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES… Read More

“Let’s be honest with ourselves.  The US economy is not on the path of a sustainable and healthy recovery from a Great Recession that began almost four years ago.”   -DAN DIMICCO, CEO OF STEEL GIANT, NUCOR. POINTS TO PONDER 1. Although the long-term… Read More