Erica Wood – American Consequences

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How to profit from fear… Turney Duff on happiness… What 1 million percent inflation means

Dear reader, Fear is back in the stock market. It’s one of the few “assets” that has worked all year… After plunging 10% from its September peak, the S&P 500 Index is down about 4% for the year… So-called...

American Consequences

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Your choice: Make 8% or 167% on Disney… George H.W. Bush took these secrets to the grave… Nine creepy Christmas movies

Dear reader, I didn’t believe it when I first saw it… About a year ago, American Consequences feature contributor Dr. David Eifrig started including me on an e-mail thread titled AOS Beta… “Think you’ll find this...

American Consequences

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Two political parties each worse than the other, expect five corrections, farm bankruptcies rising

Dear reader, Our inbox is full after the long holiday weekend. One question we receive frequently was asked by Davey F. this week… Are you a Democrat or Republican or do you tell both sides? Well Davey, we like to think that we offend equally...

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Is this the crash?… We keep warning on GE… Trump is making China pay

Dear reader, We hope you enjoy the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend. We have a plump turkey defrosting… a caramel-and-apple pie on the counter… and plenty of fried onions for topping the green bean casserole. Of course, we’re...

American Consequences

November 2018

Bad Investment Advice from PJ

Why bad investment advice? From P. J. O’Rourke and Henry Smith Plenty of good investment advice is available (much of it right here in this magazine). But do we listen to that good advice? No, usually we don’t. Then we feel bad about ourselves...

Henry Smith, P. J. O’Rourke

November 2018

Political Trench Warfare

Defending the Trump presidency into 2020… By Buck Sexton Despite billions of dollars spent and over a hundred million votes cast, the midterm elections gave us little reason for optimism. The American people head into 2019 knowing that the...

Buck Sexton

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Will You Get Pushed Over the Edge? Read Our ‘Crash’ Issue Now

Inside This Issue: ‘Pushed Over the Edge’ In a few short months, the longest-running bull market ever will turn 10 years old. And after the recent market volatility, we wouldn’t blame you for being skeptical on stocks. As...

American Consequences

November 2018

The Debt Bomb

HAVE WE ALREADY DROPPED IT? Insight from Our Chief Risk Officer X I have been asked to provide words of wisdom on the current state of debt and leverage in the world… It’s a difficult task, since the prevailing wisdom from the vast...

CRO X

November 2018

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid…

…OF THE SCAREMONGERS! By John Tierney The safer the world becomes, the harder we try to scare ourselves. Now that most people in the developed world live to a comfortable old age, now that we’re rich enough to avoid famine and plague and the...

John Tierney

November 2018

Larger Than Life and Twice as Ugly

America’s Love Affair With the Post-Apocalyptic Movie By John Podhoretz The greatest twist ending in Hollywood history came in 1968 when Charlton Heston rode shirtless on a horse down a beach, saw something horrid, and threw himself to the ground...

John Podhoretz

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