On the Money
Charles Ortel
ORTEL: Secure America’s borders, then welcome productive immigrants
Investing in infrastructure inside Mexico would create employment there, while spurring demand for goods and services American companies might export.
ORTEL: Independence is great for Scotland and for the world
As global investors fret for multiple reasons, an important drama plays out now over Scotland — voters there finally have the chance to cut ties that bind them to union with England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. And Scots should rush through the exit door.
ORTEL: On jobs, economy, markets, Obama is no Reagan
Under Obama, America's addiction to financial leverage inside households, businesses, financial institutions and governments reached epic proportions that severely threaten all of us now
ORTEL: Restore American military supremacy
A nation like America, which spends more money on government than any other, should possess military power that is unmatched and likely, therefore, to remain unchallenged.
ORTEL: Investors in defense and aerospace can win as World War III erupts
As external events spin beyond control, investors who prudently increase exposure to the defense and aerospace sectors may actually profit while the Obama administration ineptly and inexorably stokes World War III.
ORTEL: President Obama’s New World of Disorder is a clear and present danger for investors
Sated by pronounced monthly gains in stock market indexes during August, American investors and others worldwide whom regulators should try to protect, instead stand vulnerable now to life-changing downward adjustments in the value of their financial holdings.
ORTEL: A tax system that liberates all productive Americans
A flat tax of 12.5 percent on personal and corporate incomes, and a flat assessment of 8.5 percent on these incomes to fund social welfare obligations will turbo-charge America’s economy.
ORTEL: A jobs picture that is much worse than advertised
Forget what most experts are saying about the jobs picture — if you work in America in the private sector, you will earn less during your career than previous generations, you will have fewer benefits, and you will spend long periods unemployed and trying to reinvent yourself.
ORTEL: Set global standards regulating U.S. capital markets
The market for U.S. government debt securities is among the largest and most liquid in the world; yet, disclosures are woefully inadequate.
ORTEL: You can force America’s government to actually work
Until recently, Americans have been content to ignore important facts about the state of our government and our economy.
ORTEL: Valuation bubbles could leave little on the investor’s plate
Following the carnage that spread last week in financial markets, the world remains awash in valuation bubbles, manufactured by three machines.
ORTEL: Note to Janet Yellen: The American bubble is popping
This week, guests will interact with Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen and colleagues inside a benign bubble that no outsider can prick -- a scripted symposium, manufactured for the select few in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
ORTEL: America needs more Microsofts and less government
On Tuesday, tech giant Microsoft will explain how many jobs a cash-rich, uber-profitable enterprise will savage, staying ahead of cut-throat competition in the global marketplace.
ORTEL: As President Obama frolics, real bears get ready to feast
Cutting to the front of a line, while defying school lunch dictates promulgated by the first lady, President Obama let his inner bear loose last week. Our President slurped down Texas barbecue, scant miles away from the latest humanitarian crisis his administration manufactures, choosing to avert his own eyes though he had spent your money to get close enough to our southern border.
ORTEL: In America, ‘Dependence Day’ will never be a national holiday
The parades are over and barbecue residue's all mopped up following America's birthday weekend. Yet at a moment when we should vividly remember why our Founders sacrificed so much to secure freedom, the Obama administration continues force-feeding its twisted vision for this country.
ORTEL: For investors, Obama in 2014 will be far worse than Nixon was in 1974
In 1974, as America was losing Vietnam and descending into economic chaos, Richard Milhous Nixon did one great thing — he resigned rather than subject the nation to the living nightmare of the impeachment pending in the House of Representatives, followed by a trial in the Senate.
ORTEL: Is Argentina better off than America will be after Obama?
Once rich beyond measure, Argentina now flirts with default and catastrophe yet again.
ORTEL: Barack Obama’s ‘big lies’ fail us on Father’s Day
It is a good thing for Team Obama that "lemon laws" do not apply to campaign assertions made in 2012 — radical Islamists are rising across oil-bearing Middle Eastern hot spots, while General Motors and the American economy stumble in reverse.
ORTEL: Has the Obama administration embraced economic ‘terrorism’?
Overwhelmed by revelations on Taliban prisoners exchanged for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, while reeling from consequences of foreign-policy failures everywhere, Americans are missing a near and present danger that will bite each of us hard, deep inside our borders.
ORTEL: A wobbly U.S. economy may be heading for a fall
The adults among us remember the joys we had as children spinning tops — watching an ungainly gadget on a tiny point whir upright against the odds, seemingly rigid, stable and secure.
