Articles Worth a Read

These are articles that say something important I wish I’d written. They will not typically be from what you’d consider mainstream sources. Some are short and easy reads. Some- are not. Be assured that I am not including the long, denser ones just to torture you. If I didn’t think them worth your time, they wouldn’t be here. As with Short Takes, sometimes my commentary will be included. Sometimes they stand on their own.

2 weeks ago

Darrin Waller, writing as Fountainbridge on Substack, just published “How Iran Broke America.” He says in his introduction, “Tehran

3 months ago

Ray is a very smart man who has spent decades studying history’s cycles to inform his investing. Judging from

4 months ago

Published on December 13, 2024 Suzanne Maloney’s explanation is the most concise and clearest explanation of how our relationship

4 months ago

Hanna Horvath wrote a Substack article called, “The grift economy is going mainstream.” It describes how AI can be

5 months ago

David Bahnsen, founder of The Bahnsen Group, has written a very relevant article titled “Markets as a Video Game –

5 months ago

On January 12, 2026 Raghuram G. Rajan, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and chief economist of

6 months ago

Here’s a December 15th, 2025 article from Myrmikan Research called simply “Truth” on the history of paper money,

7 months ago

To be clear, following the Vietnam play book to get out of Ukraine is not a good thing. In

9 months ago

The Felder Report this week offers some information from generally well thought of sources on the real impacts of inflation

10 months ago

Britain used to be the world’s great power and it’s currency the world’s currency. What happened? Graeme Thompson

10 months ago

This article from The Robin Report (free to sign up for their daily posts on retail) is about grocery stores.

10 months ago

I believe in the concept of the Federal Reserve being independent. I don’t like the idea of Trump (or

10 months ago

Harvard Business Review, May 2002. Interestingly enough, trying harder is a problem when the business environment changes because of the

11 months ago

That’s the title of a scroll through presentation by the Financial Times. It shows and discusses the growth, and

11 months ago

“The current national conversation about manufacturing confuses a reduction in manufacturing jobs with a slowdown in U.S. manufacturing.  Period. Once we