Archive: employment
Government Spending Means Investors Should Seek Hedges
By Adam Sharp on May 7, 2021
This week I came across a statistic that shocked me. It turns out that 34% of all US income currently comes from the government. Here’s a chart from an article on ZeroHedge showing the rise of government “transfer payments” to citizens. I just can’t believe that more than a third of the entire nation’s income is currently dependent on the federal government. That number…
The American Startup Surge
By Andy Gordon on October 14, 2020
There’s no denying that the economy is weaker than it was pre-pandemic. While industries like gaming and work-from-home tech have soared, many other businesses have struggled to survive. But in the midst of all this economic hardship, something rather fascinating has happened in the U.S. The…