Bob goes solo to give a point-by-point rebuttal to James Lindsay’s recent essay arguing that “national divorce means national suicide.” Bob argues that James employs inconsistent claims and ignores the tremendous economic boon to an independent Texas. James Lindsay’s Article ...
In a 1922 essay about Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in his book Prejudices: Third Series H.L. Mencken asked, “Am I the first American to note the fundamental nonsensicality of the Gettysburg Address”? One example of the nonsense of Lincoln’s rhetoric as explained by ...
No one was surprised last November when the Pentagon failed its sixth audit, serving up a sorry record of zero and six. The accomplishment received little mainstream media coverage. Scott Ritter excoriated his former employer (and mine) over the fraud, ...
Periodically, we like to review sentiment charts, and today we have two for you. One is the poll results from the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) and the other is the National Association of Active Investment Managers (NAAIM) Exposure ...
In this episode of StockCharts TV‘s The MEM Edge, Mary Ellen reviews why the markets continue to hit new highs while also highlighting which areas are driving this strength. She then shares a low-risk, simple way to participate in the uptrend among ...
New possibilities emerge with the release of the new “Panels” on the StockCharts dashboard. Market Factors Panel One of them is the “Market Factors” panel This panel slices the S&P 1500 into nine segments broken down by size-value-growth. It is ...
In this edition of StockCharts TV‘s The Final Bar, Dave digs into The Final Bar Mailbag and answers questions on price patterns like bull flags, what price gaps actually represent on the chart, and why analyzing earnings trends could help you anticipate ...
Costco (COST) stock has soared into uncharted heights, leaving its last all-time record in the dust. With a little under a month before the company is scheduled to open its earnings book, you’d think investors are expecting something of a ...
School Choice has become a hot button political topic, especially for right-wing America. Conservatives, libertarians, and everyone that is to the left of the Democratic Party have grown increasingly more skeptical of the public education system. Between ideological indoctrination, what ...
Ludwig von Mises spends a good deal of time attacking the German Historical School of Economics in Human Action and other works. The doctrines of the school are no longer influential, although as the philosopher and economist Birsen Filip notes ...