by Jason Apollo Voss | 09 01 2012 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Modern capitalists take as gospel truth that capital losses serve as a signal to exit a market. Ideas or businesses that fail to compete in the market are abandoned in favor of those that can compete. In this way, not only is capital preserved, but also capitalism....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 21 12 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
In the finance profession the ability to suss out the truth is of critical importance. From analysts needing to assess the veracity of statements by corporate management to private wealth managers needing to understand their clients’ actual financial motives, the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 08 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Earlier this week in my post entitled, “Adjusting the Scale of the Selloff to Demonstrate Its Absurdity,” I spent quite a lot of time talking about this thing called the “equity risk premium” and some of the interesting data I had...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 28 07 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
For today’s post I wanted to review the evidence for that oft talked about issue: who is more responsible for the U.S. debt? If you ask a Republican it is “tax and spend” liberals that are responsible for the bulk of the U.S. government...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 27 07 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Continuing on with an examination of the U.S. debt crisis, let’s look at another oft talked about issue: that raising taxes leads to a decrease in gross domestic product (GDP). As I said yesterday, feel free to download the What My Intuition Tells Me Now...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 26 07 2011 | Best of the Blog, Blog
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...