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In the first wave of the coronavirus crisis, Americans suffered three devastating blows to their income: Over 40 million were thrown out of work. The interest they could earn on their savings...

I love the Fourth of July holiday almost as much as I love Thanksgiving. It’s a time to get together and celebrate America, shoot off fireworks, eat as much grilled food as possible and, most...

How are you going to spend your Fourth of July weekend? A BBQ with family and friends? Golfing? Boating? Camping? Traveling? Everybody enjoys a little leisure, but how does 5,000 days of leisure...

The COVID-19 numbers were already bad. Now they’re getting a lot worse … The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases globally surged beyond 10 million over the weekend. Now, there are another...

Don’t worry about the silly pandemic (sarcasm alert), the monetary calvary — aka the Federal Reserve — has risen to the rescue. The Fed has spent trillions to prop up the stock market…and it has...

“Everything is expensive.” That’s how a Longview Economics strategist recently described this environment. Why? Because more than 80% of the markets his firm tracks are overpriced — the most...

All four of the places in the world where I’ve spent the most time in recent years have experienced frightening surges in COVID-19 cases. One is northern Italy. We go there to visit our dear...

That’s what I think when I see the hundreds of twenty-something millennials and Gen. Z-ers camped out in Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle. The honest truth is that many of them...

For every borrower, there’s a lender. But when discussing interest rate cuts, pundits and policymakers always focus on the benefits to the former ... NOT the costs to the latter. And guess...

We don’t have economic data from the 14th century when the Black Death swept through Asia, Europe and Africa. We certainly don’t know much about the great floods that struck the Middle East and...