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By Lawrence Kudlow, Arthur B. Laffer, and Stephen MooreThe Trump Administration and the Republicans in Congress have passed one of the best pro-growth tax bills ever. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ranks in the all-time hall of fame along with Reagan's 1981 and 1986 Tax Acts and President Kennedy’s posthumous tax cuts of 1964. The announcements by Apple, FedEx, ATT, Fiat Chrysler and over 300 companies with multi-billion dollar investments in the United States are early lead indicators of good things to come from the tax rate cuts. When this is combined with Trump's deregulation agenda, we see no...

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Out on the campaign trail, Fed head Ben Bernanke is an unpopular guy. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have both said they would replace Bernanke, not reappoint him. Rep. Ron Paul would swap the whole Federal Reserve monetary system for a gold-linked dollar, making the yellow metal legal tender. And it was Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, before he dropped out of the race, who said more quantitative easing by the Fed would be "almost treasonous." Republicans in Washington are equally unimpressed by Bernanke. Rep. Paul Ryan recently criticized the Fed for bankrolling our huge budget deficits and thereby accommodating...

The Great Ravelling Begins: China, Japan Stitch Up By David Morgan, editor of Silver and Industry Trend Investor This article first appeared on FreeMarketNews.com A recent article by Marshall Auerback “China and the U.S.: The Great Unravelling Begins?” was instructive not only for its sober tone but also for what Auerback only referred to in passing but that more paranoid types might find extremely noteworthy. Auerback’s analysis, written for the “Prudent Bear” is fine so far as it goes. It is always a pleasure to read an adult analysis of the global financial situation, one that recognizes the nature of...