At JasonHartman.com, we have been warning about inflation for quite a while. For a long time, the Consumer Price Index has shown what appear to be very benign levels of price increases, leading some to believe that the monetary expansion required to finance profligate...
When a ship is headed for a storm, the captain will promptly announce “All Hands on Deck” to tell the crew that maximum effort is necessary to survive. The global financial storm is culminating into a situation that will require each of us to call the entirety of our...
The Nigerian Internet scheme is so well known, it’s become a joke. But now, variations of that scam are targeting the housing market, snagging unwary home sellers and buyers with a mix of pathos and pressure on marketplace sites like Craigslist and eBay. Fraud...
Many stock market investors have become familiar with the work of Harry Markowitz in creating a methodology known as “Portfolio Theory” for managing equity investments. The fundamental premise of portfolio theory is to maximize the rate of return for a given level of...
Money has come a long way from its early days when societies assigned a value to objects and allowed them to be used in trade for other things. In most of the world, modern currency is centralized, issued only by authorized entities and usually backed by a valuable...
