by John Mauldin | Jul 30, 2021 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
“T.S. Eliot once wrote, ‘Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.’ It seems the US financial system is bound and determined to find out.” —John Hussman, July 29, 2021 “If I was Darth Vader and I wanted to destroy the US economy, I...
by John Mauldin | Jul 23, 2021 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
Great news: The US economy is officially out of recession. We know this because the National Bureau of Economic Research’s official recession-calling committee said so this week. The economy has been in an expansion phase since last April, making this the shortest...
by John Mauldin | Jul 16, 2021 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
I have mixed feelings about China. On the plus side, I think the country’s massive economic transformation may be one of the most impressive events in human history. Bringing hundreds of millions from primitive rural lives into relatively prosperous cities within a...
by John Mauldin | Jul 9, 2021 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
In the 1980s, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher liked to say, “There is no alternative” to her market-driven economic reform ideas. She said it so much people began abbreviating it as “TINA.” Whatever you think of Lady Thatcher’s policies, the slogan was...
by John Mauldin | Jul 2, 2021 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
It is as essential to democracy that the minority should voluntarily submit to the measures adopted as it is that the majority should voluntarily approve them. Democratic government rests upon the principle that it is better to count heads than it is to break them....
by John Mauldin | Jun 25, 2021 | alerts, Markets/Economy, Mauldin Economics
“At the end of the day” is a trite figure of speech, but it sometimes fits. It signals you’ve used all your time, and now you’ll wrap up and begin thinking about tomorrow. I like to say designing the Strategic Investment Conference agenda is my personal art form....
