Sybil's Star

A friend recently sent me a link to an article about the precarity of the US Social Security system. The headlines read: Social Security’s F...

2025 is already upon us, and it’s time to update the M&Ms Inflation Index. Like some of you, I remember when a 1.69 oz packet of M&M...

What trajectory did the US gold reserves follow in the last century? Below is a World Gold Council chart that might be accurate, although th...

Someone recently asked me to explain the term “Stagflation." Some of you probably remember the Nixon years, the early 1970s. This is th...

My electric bills have been going up for the past few years, so I decided to analyze the data to figure out what was changing. Was it the co...

I’ve made some revisions to my M&Ms inflation gauge, this time basing it on calculations of the “per ounce” price rather than per packet...

A friend asked what a “flight from the dollar” looks like. I can certainly give my understanding expressed in easy-to-understand language. A...

The Fraser Institute's  study of economic freedom  in the world for 2022 (data from 2020) has just been published. As usual, the stars o...

If you have ever wondered about the global use of the dollar as a reserve currency, you might be interested in this article now published a...

We are living in unusual times. The US has never had so much debt, and its central bank has never created so much money out of nothing. Most...