by John Mauldin | Nov 3, 2023 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
Identifying problems is great. Identifying solutions is even better, especially when the politicians who are supposed to be solving our big problems don’t even try. In last week’s Debt Catharsis letter, I offered some ideas to start fixing the federal debt problem. To...
by John Mauldin | Oct 27, 2023 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
The ancient Greeks had a word κάθαρσις, which in English we now spell as “catharsis,” although it’s pronounced basically the same. It originally referred to purifying religious ceremonies, medical treatments, and so on. Aristotle was the first we know to have used the...
by John Mauldin | Oct 20, 2023 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
We have been looking at big historical/economic/political cycles for the past two months. We reviewed Neil Howe’s Fourth Turning concept, then George Friedman’s twin US institutional and socioeconomic cycles, then Peter Turchin’s “cliodynamics” concept, and then Ray...
by John Mauldin | Oct 13, 2023 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
When your system, whatever it may be, is working extremely well, we used to say it’s “firing on all 8 cylinders.” What does that mean? A gasoline motor contains metal cylinders inside which the gasoline burns (hence “internal combustion engine”) and causes belts and...
by John Mauldin | Oct 6, 2023 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
“…what I learned is whatever successes I had in life had to do more with how I dealt with what I didn’t know than what I know… “…the reason I did that book is because there are things that are happening now that never happened in our lifetime before, and I want to be...
