U.S. Taxes Lowest Since 1950

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jul 26, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 0 comments   Since THE story of the moment is the U.S. budgetary crisis I plan on exploring this story’s many angles until this issue is no longer a crisis.  Today I wanted to talk about the revenue-side of the U.S. budget deficit and total debt problem.  That’s right let’s talk about revenues, alias (those dreaded) taxes. Right now Republicans are refusing to allow taxes to be...
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An Idea That Might Just Improve Democracy

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jun 11, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 5 comments I normally don’t blog about politics except as it affects investing.  I consider myself a lukewarm follower of the political scene – having given up on politics as the real source of power in the United States.  One person = one vote, but one dollar = one vote; so businesses are the real source of power in our culture. However, as many of you who follow the blog know, I am...
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Absolute Unemployment Numbers Show Carnage

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on May 26, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 0 comments While the rest of Wall Street digests the latest Department of Labor jobless claims figures (up by 10,000 to 424,000), I wanted to spend some time talking with you about absolute unemployment numbers.  All of the following data comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ report entitled, “Employment loss and the 2007-09 recession: an overview.” Folks, get you air sickness bags,...
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What About Gold Right NOW?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Apr 6, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 2 comments Loyal blog reader, Clint, asked a question yesterday about my 2011 Prediction for gold prices that I feel needs to be brought into the larger forum of the blog itself.  Here is what Clint asked:   “Hello Jason I have a question about your gold prediction. With the fed printing money faster than I can say “the fed is printing money”, rising turmoil in the middle east (although not...
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Statistics Are Not the Truth, Just a Mathematical Method

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Apr 5, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 0 comments One of my continual beefs with our Western World and my criticisms of capitalism is our overemphasis on numerical and statistical methods in analysis.  In fact, these two forms of analysis are so dominate that the word analysis has become a synonym for numerical and statistical methods. In conducting analysis as an investor for almost twenty years I can tell you that analysis requires equal...
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Should I take a bite of Apple? a case study

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Jan 19, 2011 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 2 comments Of course the question of the day is: should I buy or sell Apple?   This, in fact, is an excellent opportunity for me to share with you how to use skills I teach in my book The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth to answer the question for yourself.   Most blog sites would just share with you their opinion of Apple. But my goal is your investment...
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Solely Analytical Methods Are Doomed To Failure

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 30, 2010 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 4 comments The Wall Street Journal has an article this morning entitled, “Economists’ Grail: A Post-Crash Model.”   The article demonstrates aptly exactly why I wrote my book, The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth. You see it all comes down to this: There is no such thing as a future fact.  Facts by definition are things that have already happened…in the...
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