Jan 6 2010
U.S. Dollar and the 1971 Shock: How Going off the Gold Standard is now Coming Back to Harm the U.S. Dollar. The 40 Years Spending Spree.
The U.S. dollar has been on a wild rollercoaster ride for decades. Most Americans rarely concern themselves with currency markets or larger macro economic trends. Yet this is such an important financial area to understand since Americans are paid in U.S. dollars. It is fascinating to understand why the U.S. went off the gold standard [...]
Jan 4 2010
The 5 Percent Solution: How 5 Percent of the Workforce Generated 40 Percent of U.S. Business Profits and all of it was a Ponzi Scheme.
From 1948 to the early 1980s the financial industry in the U.S. generated from 5 to 15 percent of all U.S. business profits. In the early 1980s this started to creep higher and higher. It reached a triumphant climax generating over 40 percent of all U.S. profits at the height of our financial bubble. The [...]