Erica Wood – American Consequences

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When dead companies don’t die… How to kill off civilization… Are you concerned about the border?

Dear reader, Have you read our latest issue yet? It’s all about the “silver linings” in disasters, market crashes, and other terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad things. Just take P.J. O’Rourke’s letter from the editor...

Erica Wood

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Inside This Issue: Every Disaster Has a Silver Lining

For two years now, we’ve brought you news that few others in the mainstream media would publish… This magazine is meant to be unlike anything else you might read. It’s an unfiltered collection of ideas that matter… a no-B.S...

American Consequences

June 2019

Can Trump Negotiate an End to Mass Migration From Mexico?

By Buck Sexton The latest numbers from our southern border are staggering. The Department of Homeland Security recorded more than 133,000 illegal crossings in May 2019, which is a one-month record stretching back seven years. The flood of Central...

Buck Sexton

June 2019

How Inflation Could Return

By Mohamed A. El-Erian Debates about inflation in advanced economies have changed remarkably over the past decades. Setting aside (mis)measurement issues, concerns about debilitatingly high inflation and the excessive power of bond markets are long...

Mohamed A. El-Erian

June 2019

The U.S. Economy’s Dirty Secret

By Todd G. Buchholz There is a dirty little secret in economics today: The United States has benefited – and continues to benefit – from the global slump. The U.S. economy is humming along, even while protesters in the United Kingdom hurl milkshakes...

Todd G. Buchholz

June 2019

Predicting the Next Stock Market ‘Flash Crash’

By Romesh Saigal and Abdullah AlShelahi, University of Michigan Originally published at The Conversation Soon after the Great Recession, the U.S. stock markets plunged – and rebounded within 36 minutes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more...

Abdullah AlShelahi, Romesh Saigal

June 2019

Toledo, Ohio

A Lesson in Successful Failure By P.J. O’Rourke “Toledo… the germ of a second Buffalo.” Pierre Irving, nephew of Washington Irving and an early Toledo land speculator, in an 1836 letter to a friend. America’s exceptionalism lies not in its...

P. J. O’Rourke

June 2019

The Bear Market Survival Guide

By Austin Root Being scared won’t help you one bit. Our mission is to help you prepare… And that starts with understanding the scope of the problem that lies ahead – and not hiding from it. Once you do, it’s absolutely possible to...

Austin Root

June 2019

The Upside of Dystopia

By Andrew Ferguson If I may begin on a personal note: I’m a veritable Little Mary Sunshine, all-star division. Show me a half-empty glass and I’ll swear it’s half-full. Show me an empty glass and I’ll show you how to fill it up halfway, never half...

Andrew Ferguson

June 2019

The Bright Side of Bad Situations

Optimistically Bad Advice and Predictions for Surviving Financial Disaster By Chris Gaarde, Assistant Editor This month, I asked some of the biggest names in finance for their predictions on the market… From crashes to booms to busts, I wanted...

Chris Gaarde

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