Investor CAFÉ Newsletters

• Not Sold in Stores! April 24, 2025
  Special Event:  I am pleased to announce that Mr. Steve Forbes, Chairman and editor in chief of Forbes magazine, will be speaking at Chapman University this Tuesday, April 29, at 4-5:30 pm at the Sandhu Conference Center on campus. You're invited!   He's there to receive the annual Doti-Spogli Free EnterPRIZE, which includes 5 American eagle gold coins (now […]
• The Real Reason Trump Paused the Trade War: Scary! April 10, 2025
  “Never underestimate the size of a panic, nor the power of the politician.” -- Harry D. Schultz (“Maxims of Wall Street,” p. 111) Last week, proclaiming April 2 as “Liberation Day,” the President announced the largest increase in tariffs in 100 years. This chart says it all: Trump insisted that his hard-nosed tariffs would be […]
• The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches April 3, 2025
  By Mark Skousen SPECIAL ALERT:  See my analysis below in “You Blew it!” on Trump’s massive new trade war announced yesterday, and its effect on the economy and your pocketbook.  “To be successful, you need leisure.” -- George Soros “Plant the tree, and let it grow.” -- T. Rowe Price “Don’t give me timing. Give […]
• How Capitalism Solved the Socialists’ #1 Goal March 27, 2025
  “We are sick of systems that produce poor people for the church to look after.” -- Pope Francis “Free enterprise capitalism has demonstrably lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system.” -- John Mackey, “Conscious Capitalism” Every year I teach a popular class at Chapman University entitled, “Puzzles & Paradoxes in Economics […]
• From MAGA to MEGA: With YOUR Help, It Can Be Done! March 20, 2025
  “It's time for you as America’s economist to MEGA -- Make Economics Great Again!” -- Professor Sean Fynn, Scripps College Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan, “Make America Great Again.” It’s a tall order, and Americans differ on what that means. Last week, Sean Flynn, the talented professor of economics at one of the Claremont colleges in California, challenged […]
• Elon Musk Wants to Get the Government Out of GDP: Good Idea? March 14, 2025
  “A more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending.” -- Elon Musk Special Announcement: Michael Levine, who has been called the “Michael Jordan of PR,” having represented such celebrities as Michael Jackson, Charlton Heston, and Barbara Streisand, has been doing an award-winning Zoom interview show for 10 years called “Without Notes.” He thought I would be a good person […]
• Finding Winners in a Tariff-ying Land March 6, 2025
  “There’s always a bull market somewhere.” -- Robert Kinsman (“Maxims of Wall Street,” p. 107) Warren Buffett rightly calls tariffs “an act of war.” Canada and China have already responded by imposing tariffs on U.S. exports. Mexico and Europe will be following suit soon. Economists have known for some time that a tax on imports […]
• Wall Street Debate: Should You Jump Ship or Hold On? February 27, 2025
  “Bull markets climb a wall of worry.” -- Maxims of Wall Street, p. 64 After the stock market rose 25% last year and rallied even more after the November elections, investors are worried that the good times are over. There’s growing fear on Wall Street that the stock market is headed for a crash or […]
• How to Eliminate the Trade Deficit Without the Trump Tariffs! February 20, 2025
  “The trade deficit is NOT caused by foreigners engaging in unfair trade practices. It’s homegrown.” -- Steve Hanke (Johns Hopkins University) “No nation was even ruined by trade.” -- Benjamin Franklin I made my first appearance as “America's Economist” on Newsmax’s “American Agenda” TV show earlier this week, discussing the trade war/tariff debate. It lasted only three minutes. […]
• Benjamin Franklin’s Warning to America February 6, 2025
  “I am apprehensive, therefore, perhaps too apprehensive, that the government of these states may in future times end in a monarchy, and a king will the sooner be set over us.” -- Benjamin Franklin, 1787 “When Washington sleeps, the economy grows.” -- William Rees-Mogg (“Maxims of Wall Street,” p. 147) Special Announcement: I have a new website! Check it out […]