Reports

A man hunting high office is a man to be watched. And the higher the office he seeks, the closer he must be watched. For this is an ambitious man. And as one fellow who raged with ambition — Napoleon — stated: Those endowed with (great ambition) may perform very ...

Everyone knew the second quarter of 2020 was going to be a disaster, and it was. The U.S. economy fell by 31.4% (annualized) in the second quarter. But, the expectation was that we’d have a V-shaped recovery with a sharp bounce-back in the third quarter, a reopening of closed businesses, ...

Just when you think things couldn’t get crazier, they have. As I’m sure you know by now, President Trump has contracted the coronavirus. I certainly wish President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump a full and speedy recovery from the coronavirus. If ever there was a time to put politics ...

There’s less than a month until Election Day. Once the votes are in, the die will be cast for the next four years, perhaps longer. Trump or Biden? The difference could not be more clear, and the stakes could not be higher for you and your investments. Again, this is ...

Both scarce and infinite, time passes in paradox. Money is tokenized time. In a fungible form, it expresses this ultimate scarcity in economic transactions. Back in April 1998, when the price was $14.47, I urged the readers of the then Gilder Technology Report to buy Amazon. I was not the ...

America has a new manufactured crisis, ElectionGate, as if all the other troubles piling up like tropical depressions marching across the September seas were not enough. America needs a constitutional crisis like a hole in the head, and that’s exactly what’s being engineered for the holiday season by the clever ...

WE have waded into presidential politics… and with predictable consequences. Yesterday — for example — we vented Robert Kiyosaki’s controversial opinion that President Trump is doing the nation a blessing by avoiding income taxes. Here is one reader’s response, Bob by name: Are you s****ing me? I don’t like to ...

No man can avoid politics. All are in siege. No rival field of human enterprise can approach its ferocity. War is the extension of what by other means… in Mr. Carl von Clausewitz’s grim telling? The answer is politics of course. Today we file a scorching tort against politics. Politics ...

In the depths of the pandemic panic and new economic depression this past March and April, happy talk was coming from the White House and Wall Street. In effect, economic and political leaders said, “Yes, things are bad right now, but don’t worry. We’ll have lots of pent-up demand, and ...

FINALLY, tonight we get to see President Trump and Joe Biden square off in a debate, the first of three scheduled debates. We should be treated to plenty of fireworks, even though the live audience will be limited. The discussion points will include Trump’s handling of the COVID pandemic, what ...