It's 2020! We're officially living in the future! And if retro sci-fi stories are any guide, that means abundant, clean, cheap energy for everyone. In 1954 the chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission declared to great fanfare that the nuclear age would bring with it "electrical energy too cheap [...]
Despite a rough year on the markets and increasing concern about the effects of an ongoing trade war, 2018 was yet another good year for the US economy, with GDP up an estimated 3.1% for the year. But can the good times keep up or is this just a positive [...]
Do you ever get the feeling that the only news they report is bad news? Well if you've ever wondered why that is, there is someone you can blame for the media's persistently negative outlook: yourself. It seems the media mostly just gives us what we want, or at least [...]
America is more divided now than ever, a hostile foreign power is openly threatening us with nuclear weapons, and we don't even know what next year's tax rates will be. In this era of acrimony and uncertainty, surely the market must be a roller coaster ride of volatility and risk [...]
In my last post I wrote about how the financial industry, led in particular by asset manager BlackRock, may begin putting pressure on the private sector to reduce carbon emissions and otherwise adopt more environmentally friendly practices, for entirely self-interested, profit-motivated reasons. Since then, I've been thinking a lot about [...]
