Speaking Saturday at the Essence Festival (an event celebrating black culture), presidential hopeful Kamala Harris promised to invest $100 billion in housing assistance for black families as part of an effort to increase minority homeownership and close the racial wealth gap. “A typical black family has just $10 of wealth for every $100 held by […] Read more

Throughout modern American history, the Democrat presidential nominee has almost always – if not always – been more towards the center than much of their party. After all, who can forget President Obama ascending to the White House proclaiming his support of traditional marriage? “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a […] Read more

In case you haven’t heard, there’s a big international event taking place this weekend in Osaka, Japan. I don’t know how you could have avoided hearing about the G20 summit because it is everywhere in the financial news. If you are a reader of Bull Market Rodeo, I am guessing that you also visit other […] Read more

Google is doing a really bad job hiding its anti-conservative bias. During the 2016 election, Google was caught prioritizing positive information about Hillary Clinton and prioritizing negative information about Donald Trump in search results. Last week, the company fired engineer Mike Wacker after he spoke with Fox News about the harsh work environment he endured as a Republican […] Read more

Everyone from politicians and economists to ill-informed college students are discussing the merits of what is referred to as Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). While the theory is nothing new, it has been adopted by those that are very new, the socialists among us. I don’t know about you, but I immediately get hot flashes when […] Read more

The three-fold message that Fidel Castro enunciated in January of 1959 when his rebels took control of Cuba, included one-part healthcare. The remainder was to eradicate poverty and educate the masses. Sound familiar? Yet within three years, he had declared conclusively, “I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be until the last day of my […] Read more

Last week U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor declared that without the “tax” (disposed of by the Trump administration) the Affordable Care Act, i.e., Obamacare, is unconstitutional. While there is much speculation on how this will play out, it means that all or at least part of the law will be struck down. This is NOT […] Read more

Over the years I have heard many different sources, from economics professors to Fed Chairmen, say that the Federal Reserve doesn’t pay attention to the stock market when it comes to deciding rate policy. I think we all know better than that. When the Fed stepped in and started lowering rates at the end of […] Read more