America’s great private universities have either been involved in price-fixing for the past decade or the US government has been manipulating the real rate of inflation. Which do you believe is most likely?
American Compass has …

In part 2 of our series on the housing crisis, we tackle the latest favorite mantra of the real estate industry: “Now’s a great time to buy.” Everyone knows real estate prices have fallen. Some markets …

In part one of our series on the lunacy of buying into real estate, we consider the interest rate argument. Home mortgage rates are not only at cyclical lows, but at all time lows. Some …

American Compass has six easy steps to steal the stored wealth of virtually all the citizens of a country. Not possible? Well, it first takes a government.
Step 1: Create Inflation
Inflation must be steady and somewhat …

In the latest affront to the individual, new data shows that gold has significantly outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average in real money terms over the past four decades.
In real money terms, the Dow Jones …

The world economies sputtered forward through most of 2009 despite warnings of a total economic paralysis. Those who invested long in equities and commodities and short the US dollar were handsomely rewarded. But 2009 will …

Doomsayers point to the newly constructed Chinese city of Ordos as a sign China’s financial collapse.
But where did China get the money to construct a city for no one? The American Consumer, of course. From …