Jerry Bowyer column
Jerry Bowyer is chief economist of BenchMark Financial Network and a CNBC contributor.
Jerry Bowyer
October 16, 2009
It wasn't Colonel Mustard in the library with the candelabra. And contrary to recent press reports, it wasn't Prince Alwaleed in the desert with a cartel. It . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 9, 2009
The easy-money advocates had a tough summer. In August alone, the price level increased almost half a percent, raising the average annual rate of inflation for . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 16, 2009
Perhaps no controversy in recent years illustrates more clearly the dismal state of American civics education than the controversy pertaining to Barack Obama's . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 12, 2009
People rhetorically ask where God was on 9/11 as though He wasn't anywhere. Or they ask it accusingly, the way a detective asks a suspect if he has an alibi. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 14, 2009
It's not enough for most people to know what the unemployment rate is and whether it's going up or down. It's not enough for investors and entrepreneurs living . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 3, 2009
As President Obama steps up his rhetorical attempts to take credit for an improving economy, it seems proper for BuzzCharts to take a moment to review the data . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 28, 2009
Investors aren't sheep; they're more like cheetahs. And there may be no species of investor more cheetah-like than the American investor.
The latest case in . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 21, 2009
Back in 2006, when the federal-funds rate peaked at 5.25 percent, several economists writing for National Review Online argued that the Federal Reserve was too . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 8, 2009
We bought almost 3 billion dollars worth of semiconductors on average over the past three months. We've been trending up since February. This is how the economy . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 2, 2009
Today we saw the release of two piece of important employment data: the Challenger, Gray & Christmas monthly survey of lay-offs and the Monster Employment Index . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 19, 2009
It's never a good sign when your Treasury Secretary announces a plan to overhaul the financial system and the market plunges 200 points that same day. But that . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 6, 2009
We're going to need another Jack Kemp. We're in the same mess now as we were when he rose to prominence in the 1970s: rising taxes, energy rationing, and a . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 17, 2009
(Originally published at townhall.com)
This week, I watched with amazement Larry Kudlow's joust with Congressman Brad Sherman about accounting. Sherman was . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 20, 2009
© Forbes.com
John McIntyre of RealClearPolitics and I were both on Larry Kudlow's radio program on Saturday afternoon. Larry asked us both the same . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 19, 2009
© Wall Street Journal Online
Tomorrow the Pittsburgh Steelers square off against the Baltimore Ravens, and the Philadelphia Eagles square off against . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 9, 2009
© CNBC.com
There was a good Wall Street Journal piece Thursday morning on Satyam which by the way is Sanskrit for 'truth.' The CEO puffed up both . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 7, 2009
© Forbes.com
Yesterday former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt published a piece in the Wall Street Journal calling for more regulators as a response to the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 27, 2008
© Forbes.com
"Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 20, 2008
© Forbes.com
George W. Bush has come full circle. He started his public career as the beneficiary of a government bailout, and he ends it as the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 2, 2008
© CNBC.com
Who died and made the National Bureau of Economic Research boss? During the past two days my in-box has been flooded by NEWS ALERT: RECESSION . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 30, 2008
It's astonishing and a little horrifying that America's elites know so little about their country's history. Case in point: Jared Bernstein of the Economic . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 5, 2008
© Townhall.com
"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 4, 2008
Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand during the day. In the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 22, 2008
© TCS Daily
To the annals of contra factual history which range from Churchill's "What if Lee had won at Gettysburg," to SNL's what if Napoleon had a B- . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 20, 2008
© CNBC.com
You don't hear many references to the New Testament in financial journalism these days. Maybe that's part of the problem. Larry Kudlow is a . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 13, 2008
© CNBC.com
Mark to Market was upheld Friday.
No, it was not suspended as some media outlets had originally . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 10, 2008
© CNBC.com
I know that you're deluged with people who are sure that they see what's wrong and what should be done. As for me, I'm not remotely sure, but . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 3, 2008
© CNBC.com
Forget the pundits — look at what happened to the Intrade political futures market, tracing Sarah Palin withdrawal futures in real time, as . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 30, 2008
© Forbes.com
As of this writing, the modified Paulson plan has been voted down by Congress and the Dow has taken the largest one-day plunge in history. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 24, 2008
© CNBC.com
I just got off the phone with Ed Lazear (Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors), and he made a good case for the severity . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 16, 2008
© CNBC.com
This morning on CNBC Governor John Corzine (D) of New Jersey blamed the current crises in the market on what he called the "laissez faire" . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 11, 2008
© CNBC.com
I'm sure you haven't forgotten, but today is 9/11. Ordinary people remember even if the media elite will give this anniversary small coverage . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 8, 2008
© CNBC.com
Compared to all the contortions through which the media have gone through to slap that uppity woman from Alaska, this latest one deserves the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 2, 2008
© National Review Online
I've spent much of the past year both on Kudlow & Co. and in columns arguing with Jared Bernstein, Robert Reich, Barry Ritholz, . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 29, 2008
© CNBC.com
It's a big day for John McCain. It's a big day for Sarah Palin. And it's a big day for CNBC and Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company. The . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 27, 2008
© CNBC.com
So, Obama went for the 'safe' pick — Joe Biden.
Intrade was right again — they caught the Biden surge.
Intrade gives Obama a very small . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 6, 2008
© TCS Daily
Whenever we're in Washington, my wife and I try to visit the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial on Roosevelt Island. Everyone else goes to the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 15, 2008
© CNBC.com
Federal officials aren't supposed to cause bank runs. In fact, much of the New Deal bank regulatory apparatus was set up for the purpose of . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 9, 2008
© CNBC.com
Everyone's been so busy searching for the alleged Bush recession that they've missed what the markets are trying to tell us about next year. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 7, 2008
© CNBC.com
As I write this, I sit here in Western Pennsylvania, atop the Marcellus Oil Shale Deposit, which may become one of the largest sources of . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 4, 2008
© Townhall.com
Do you ever wonder why America initiated and then dominated the oil exploration and discovery industry. Its because Thomas Jefferson . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 3, 2008
© CNBC.com
Dear Sen. McCain:
Washington watchers know that you are a Teddy Roosevelt fan. That's a good choice; TR didn't get everything right, but . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 10, 2008
© Townhall.com
It wasn't Bush, it wasn't greedy corporations, or free trade, or history's most over-predicted recession. It was not the oil companies, . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 5, 2008
© Townhall.com
Always read to the end of the report; that's where the good stuff is. Case in point an obscure little stat was released on Friday with . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 28, 2008
© National Review Online
Do carbon limits make good presidential politics?
I debated this question with John McIntire, the founder of the excellent . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 21, 2008
© CNBC.com
Israel turned 60 this week. In human-years, that's middle aged; in nation-years, that's adolescence. The stories will be almost all about . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 16, 2008
© National Review Online
The Wall Street Journal — daily watering hole of the market bears — titled its Wednesday page-one economic report: "Recession? . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 8, 2008
© National Review Online
Hat tip to my friend Larry Kudlow, official coiner of the term "recessionistas." What is a recessionista, you ask? When you see . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 7, 2008
© Townhall.com
Yes, I loved it. I've got an Y-chromosome, what do you expect? He is a man wrapped in a robot, wrapped in a missile. Oh, and he shoots . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 20, 2008
© New York Sun
The government compels banks to make loans in poor neighborhoods even if the applicants are not considered prime borrowers. You may not . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 17, 2008
© Townhall.com
As a Pennsylvania voter, I'm particularly fascinated by the identity politics that I see playing out every day before my eyes. It's kind . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 8, 2008
© Townhall
I wrote to you previously (Meet Barry Obama, 'Fair Housing' Lawyer) about the Community Reinvestment Act, a law which compels banks to make . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 5, 2008
© National Review Online
One of the reasons why I go on talk radio shows is to get a sense of how people are reacting to market events. I spend the vast . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 1, 2008
© Townhall
Last Saturday, I was a guest on Larry Kudlow's WABC radio program. Larry's a good friend and we have been talking quite a bit lately on his . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 24, 2008
© National Review Online
I wonder if the people sitting in churches this week understand how very much Jesus of Nazareth's last week of life was driven . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 11, 2008
© Episcopal Life Online
When I wrote an article for my local newspaper (reprinted on Episcopal Life Online here) taking issue with my bishop's attempt . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 28, 2008
© Wall Street Journal
Let's understand something. Pennsylvania is the coal capital of the world (well, pretty much). So why is my governor, Democrat Ed . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 24, 2008
© National Review Online
People who believed in the Bush boom and got into the markets when the president cut tax rates in 2003 have done very well. If . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 23, 2008
© Townhall.com
On Friday I was invited to a conference call with Ed Lazear, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. The call was . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 12, 2008
© National Review Online
This is one of those articles I shouldn't have to write. The world should be less crazy, I say to myself. People should ignore . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 10, 2008
© Townhall.com
Why do you think that a sales tax is less prone to corruption and complexity than an income tax?
When the income tax was originally . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 8, 2008
© Wall Street Journal
If talk show hosts ran the world, we'd have a national sales tax. We'd have no immigration, and we would have long ago carpet . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 3, 2008
© National Review Online
Two thousand and seven was the year of the "R word" — recession. How many times did you hear a network reporter drone on about . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 2, 2008
© Townhall.com
2008 years from what? Most people still know (I hope) what event initiates our calendar. Few people know why. That's because we have, . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 18, 2007
© Business & Media Institute
Last week President Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson announced that the major players in the mortgage credit disruption . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 8, 2007
© National Review Online
'I sing of arms and the man" is the opening phrase of Virgil's Aeneid, the story of how Aeneas founded the small colony that . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 7, 2007
© Town Hall
I just got off a conference call with the White House, and I'm very happy. Last August, I published an article here on Townhall called "A . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 21, 2007
© Town Hall
I have a friend who was always trying to talk me into being part of his next business idea. Media, finance, health care — it didn't matter . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 14, 2007
© Townhall.com
Gold prices are way up, but the inflation statistics are quite tame. Why is this happening? Is somebody lying to us, or is gold not all . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 13, 2007
© Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
My wife is a reader at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in McKeesport. This means that she sometimes leads the people in prayer, . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 5, 2007
© Townhall.com
The economy added 166,000 jobs last month. Is that a lot, or a little? If the economy added jobs, why did the unemployment rate stay the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 1, 2007
© Human Events
Did you see any looters on television last week? Neither did I. When New Orleans was flooded two years ago, there were looters all over . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 30, 2007
© National Review
My e-mail inbox is usually near full these days. That's what happens when people are confused about the markets. But necessity, as . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 4, 2007
© TownHall.com
It's pretty simple really. The Federal Reserve Bank creates and destroys money. It has had that power since it was created in 1913. The . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 29, 2007
© National Review Online
Sometimes, books create paradigm shifts in how we view history. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 27, 2007
© Human Events Online
Take a look at the attached stock price chart and you get some idea what it must feel like to be one of the owners of the New York . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 7, 2007
© National Review Online
Has anyone told you that under President George W. Bush we have seen the highest levels of gender-income equality in American . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 4, 2007
© National Review Online
Many analysts scoured this week's Federal Reserve minutes looking for clues as to what the central bank is going to do. Raise . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 27, 2007
© National Review Online
What are they afraid of? The economy is solid. There's plenty of investment capital out there. People want homes; mortgage . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 24, 2007
© TCS Daily
William Shakespeare taught me how to read financial newspapers. My favorite play, Much Ado About Nothing, is well titled, because it is, in . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 22, 2007
© Townhall.com
"Harry Potter books are really, really cool. I really like them; they're just so neat." So, says, Susan Bowyer (age 44) as she sits next . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 17, 2007
© National Review Online
Investors don't lend directly to homebuyers. They don't walk down the street and issue mortgages to their neighbors. Between . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 14, 2007
In 2003, many supply-siders found themselves in a debate with the American economic Left, most especially the New York Times. Larry Kudlow, Don Luskin, Art . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 9, 2007
© National Review Online
Ben Stein said it well this past Saturday on Fox's Cavuto on Business: The sub-prime mortgage problem is grossly overstated; . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 2, 2007
© Townhall.com
SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses the Harry Potter book series and contains spoilers including the final book just released in . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 3, 2007
© Orthodoxy Today
It's a clever line. When Christopher Hitchens slams Christianity he does it with style. "If we lost all our hard-won knowledge and all . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 25, 2007
© National Review Online
John Browne is a columnist and editor for the financial section of NewsMax.com, which pushes hard on the themes of doom, gloom, . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 16, 2007
© TCS Daily
Mr. Murdoch, the Bancroft family did a big favor for you last week. They refused to sell the Dow Jones Company to you for more than it's . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 14, 2007
© Human Events
Enron, stock options, deficits, trade deficits, gas prices, oil prices: each of these during its time was the big financial story. The . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 10, 2007
© TCS Daily
Four years ago the folks at NewsMax sent me a request to interview Robert Prechter, the author of Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 26, 2007
© National Review Online
Question: What do Neil Cavuto and most of the folks over at Fox News; Steve Forbes, Rich Karlgaard, and much of the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 25, 2007
© National Review Online
Each year the National Urban League releases a report called "The State of Black America." Inside this report is something . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 19, 2007
© National Review Online
We know a lot more now than we did on Monday. And we know for sure that Cho Seung-Hui had a problem with America. Today, of . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 31, 2007
© National Review Online
On January 10, President George W. Bush gave a speech in which he announced plans to increase the number of troops in Iraq (and . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 3, 2007
© National Review Online
Ford's Former Home Languishes on Market." So read the headline of a Washington Post article last week, a desperate attempt to . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 27, 2006
© National Review Online
Larry Kudlow has described this as the Goldilocks economy: decent growth, low inflation. But the gold bugs continue to warn . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 19, 2006
©TCS Daily
On Wednesday, Retail & Food Services data came out for the month of November. It showed an unexpectedly large increase over October, which . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 12, 2006
© National Review Online
It may not get as much press as the 2006 elections, the war in Iraq, or the incendiaries fired daily by Iranian president . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 5, 2006
© National Review Online
Turner Classic Movies ran the Wizard of Oz a couple of weeks ago and one of my kids Tivo'd it. This means that it gets played . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 30, 2006
© National Review Online
For about two years now there has been a deep division among members of the supply-side movement over the topic of inflation. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 16, 2006
© TCS Daily
A reporter once asked President Reagan if he had anything to say in defense of his deficits. "No" answered Reagan, "they're big enough to . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 8, 2006
"When Jesus tells us he will regard the way we treat the hungry, the homeless, the stranger, the sick, and the prisoner as if we were treating him that way, it . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 6, 2006
After seeing the failure of Washington-backed capitalist reforms in Latin America, I no longer think a third way between capitalism and socialism is possible. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 20, 2006
© National Review Online
Last week the Nobel committee announced that this year's prize in economics would be going to Dr. Edmund Phelps of Columbia. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 10, 2006
© TCS Daily
In 2003 I decided to write a book. I had been writing a regular column for National Review Online about the economy and I wanted to take . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 5, 2006
After flirting with record closings for more than a week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed its all-time close of 11,722.98 on Tuesday, ending the day . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 15, 2006
© TCS Daily
I'm giving you a red pill and a blue pill. If you take the red pill, your income will roughly double in the next ten years, but your . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 13, 2006
© National Review Online
The New York Times Company is a business, and accordingly, it acts like one. Normally that wouldn't be a problem. But when the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 8, 2006
© National Review Online
On August 17, 2006, the day President George W. Bush signed his pension-reform bill, Rep. Charlie Rangel called it a "Trojan . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 1, 2006
"The median hourly wage for American workers has declined 2 percent since 2003, after factoring in inflation. The drop has been especially notable, economists . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 21, 2006
© National Review Online
After the battle for southern Lebanon ended, the battle to dominate the global post-war spin room immediately began. Pundits . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 11, 2006
© National Review Online
Last Saturday, when Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company revealed that its boffo first quarter was due partly to high . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 7, 2006
© TCS Daily
There's a great scene in Annie Hall in which characters played by Woody Allen and Diane Keaton are talking to their respective therapists. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 1, 2006
© National Review Online
Last Friday the Dow rallied over 119 points, capping the biggest one-week point gain since 2004. The rally reflected a . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 10, 2006
© TCS Daily
My friend Rich Karlgaard, the omnivorous and 'air-apatetic' publisher of Forbes magazine has declared that the simultaneous existence of a . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 5, 2006
© National Review Online
A few weeks ago, BuzzCharts came across this headline: "80% Believe Housing Bubble." Now, we don't claim to know everything about . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 28, 2006
If 200 years from now America will be filled with people who know and love the ideas of Jefferson and Madison — but these people are overwhelmingly dark skinned . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 21, 2006
© National Review Online
Imagine for a moment that you are a financial planner and you are advising a family that makes about $130,000 per year. Their total . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 9, 2006
© National Review Online 2006
Everybody understands that the government measures the number of people looking for jobs. Very few people know that the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 2, 2006
© National Review Online 2006
This week marks the third anniversary of the implementation of President Bush's tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. It is . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 21, 2006
Some supply-side economists, including some of the disciples of the late Jude Wanniski, think that the Federal Reserve has not tightened enough and that high . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 10, 2006
The funeral of Coretta Scott King has reopened the monologue in America about how bad President George W. Bush has been for black people. Billions for war ... . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 6, 2006
© National Review Online 2005
Alan Greenspan retired last Tuesday after serving more than 18 years as chairman of the Federal Reserve. While many credit . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 27, 2006
© National Review Online 2005
According to Economy.com, jobless claims under 350,000 a week indicate an expanding labor market. Last week, jobless claims were . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 23, 2006
© National Review Online 2005
Critics of the war in Iraq often complain about the "escalating cost of the war." Listening to them, you'd never know that the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 14, 2006
Not all jobs are created equal. Some are volatile and speculative, and some are backed by real, existing profits. As it turns out, the jobs created over the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 15, 2005
© National Review Online 2005
Another month, another vindication of the Laffer curve.
The Treasury Department has released its budget report for the month of . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 4, 2005
George W. Bush is not a Goldwater Republican — he's a Lincoln Republican. Like the founder of the Republican party, Bush doesn't mind spending money on his . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 25, 2005
© National Review Online 2005
Last Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bill Clinton's core political values were put on full display. Unencumbered . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 8, 2005
Let's call it Bowyer's Law: The emphasis that the mainstream media give to unemployment while a Republican is in the White House is directly proportional to the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 26, 2005
© Tech Central Station 2005
"You can look at lots of numbers. If you actually work with economic numbers, you have less respect for them than people who don't. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
August 20, 2005
This is one of those cases where the received wisdom is tragically at odds with the economic reality. The current black unemployment rate is at its lowest point . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 11, 2005
© National Review Online 2005
Recently the Bureau of Economic Analysis released two reports which shed a lot of light on what's really going on in American . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 29, 2005
© Tech Central Station 2005
It's beyond me how anybody could look at this economy and think of stagflation. After all, President Bush mostly takes his cues . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 14, 2005
© National Review Online 2005
Recent polls have indicated that Americans, by an almost two-to-one margin, think the economy is doing poorly. However, Frank . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 3, 2005
© National Review Online 2005
It's understandable if you're a member of the general public and you're perplexed about the dozen or so stats that appear in the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 22, 2005
© National Review Online 2005
Monday's column by Paul Krugman, "A Whiff of Stagflation," stretches the truth even by Krugmanian standards. In an attempt to . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 11, 2005
This week Warren Buffett released his annual shareholders letter. It got a lot of attention, partly because he's the second wealthiest man in America, but more . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 3, 2005
ChartWell has long argued that capital markets are a great place to look for insight into the prospects for a future democratic and capitalist Middle East. When . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 13, 2005
The problem with economic debates is that they almost always occur before anybody really knows anything. Case in point: Last fall, the nation was engaged in an . . .
Jerry Bowyer
January 6, 2005
One of the things I like most about history is that it occurs in an environment where all of the major axe-grinders are no longer alive. And the wonderful thing . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 22, 2004
© National Review Online 2004
In its November 13 edition, the New York Times blamed the current fall of the dollar on the federal budget deficits. BuzzCharts . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 19, 2004
© NewYorkSun.com 2004
President Reagan once quipped that an economist is someone who asks, "It works in practice, but will it work in theory?" The gibe came to . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 1, 2004
© TechCentralStation.com 2004
Conservative Columnist: You know, Peter, it's mostly Republicans who are dying in Iraq...
Peter Jennings: How do you know that.. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 22, 2004
John Kerry has repeatedly accused George W. Bush of being the first president in American history to cut taxes during a time of war.
First, let's deal with . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 20, 2004
"He's also the only president in 72 years to lose jobs — 1.6 million jobs lost."
— John Kerry
BuzzCharts strongly suggests that President George W. Bush and . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 11, 2004
If CBS News is your Oracle of Delphi, then the headline of this edition of BuzzCharts probably comes as a bit of a shock. You thought that the U.S. economy had . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 4, 2004
Last week in Wisconsin, John Kerry repeated a central part of his middle-class-squeeze theme: that college tuitions under the Bush administration are squeezing . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 20, 2004
Bill Clinton is right: John Kerry should get off the topic of Vietnam and onto the topic of the economy. BuzzCharts would suggest that he bring some much-needed . . .
Jerry Bowyer
June 5, 2004
(BuzzCharts) — The month of May saw the creation of 248,000 new jobs in the U.S. — but that's only half the good news. March and April payroll figures were . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 30, 2004
Karl Popper said that the validity of a scientific theory is dependent upon its ability to accurately predict the future. If that is so, then the economic data . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 13, 2004
"We don't make anything anymore." "We've lost our manufacturing base, and now we're losing the service sector, too." These sentiments were heard regularly . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 8, 2004
By now, everybody who cares about politics or economics knows that last Friday the government released data that shows that employment grew extremely rapidly in . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 6, 2004
You had a bad week if you're a Bush basher. You even had a bad week if you're simply in denial about the Bush boom. You were already demoralized by Wednesday's . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 19, 2004
BuzzCharts is in a nostalgic mood this week and has decided to play a hit from the "'70s, '80s, and '90s" — the misery index. During the stagflation days of the . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 6, 2004
Since the president's tax cut was fully implemented last May the unemployment rate has dropped rapidly from 6.3 percent to 5.6 percent today. Everyone knows . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 27, 2004
The mass media and the political opponents of the president's tax cut have been trying to get the American people to ignore the falling unemployment rate. It's . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 31, 2003
In the summer of 2001, the President of the United States was forced to compromise away large portions of the tax cut package on which he had campaigned. Most . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 19, 2003
There are a lot of people who said that they were disappointed with the performance of the stock market on Monday because they were expecting something that . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 2, 2003
Yesterday the Dollar fell to its lowest level against the Euro ever when it took over $1.20 to buy one Euro. When the Euro was created several years ago, it's . . .
Jerry Bowyer
November 12, 2003
This past week's announcements that new jobless claimed had been falling for five weeks straight and that new unemployment had dropped again came not a moment . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 23, 2003
Anti-American demonstrations, comments in Arab language newspapers, acts of violence against the occupation government of Iraq and even opinion polls have been . . .
Jerry Bowyer
October 6, 2003
Last week the government released its latest inflation numbers — the CPI (Consumer Price Index) pertaining to August 2003. It showed a very modest increase in . . .
Jerry Bowyer
September 5, 2003
Mark Twain once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” I doubt whether Mr. Twain would approve of our use of his quote for . . .
Jerry Bowyer
July 10, 2003
It’s tough to keep up with all the boogie men that liberal economists use to scare Americans away from tax cuts. It’s even tougher when the same people try to . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 23, 2003
A euro buys more dollars right now than it has at any other time in the currency’s history. Now, of course, that would be a much bigger deal if the euro had not . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 15, 2003
"There are much cheaper ways to tear down a statue," said Nancy Pelosi the day after the Iraqi people tore down the image of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad. . . .
Jerry Bowyer
May 13, 2003
BuzzCharts, not wanting to buck the trend toward grade inflation, has decided to grade our Fed chairman on a curve. By this standard, Alan Greenspan has done . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 24, 2003
In times of political instability financial capital leaves first; hard assets in the form of hard currency, gold, silver, platinum, and diamonds, leave second; . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 11, 2003
Every month the Bureau of Economic Analysis releases the latest statistics on what it calls “Personal Income.” Personal income is essentially the combined . . .
Jerry Bowyer
April 4, 2003
While national and international media focus their attention almost entirely on the political differences between the America-led coalition and western European . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 20, 2003
If you sold American oil-company stocks this week and used the money to buy the S&P Index, you made a lot of money. If, however, you were a purveyor of the Bush . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 19, 2003
The present-day Democratic party has focused rhetorical attention on the dangers of deficits, and true to form they are blaming the current president for being . . .
Jerry Bowyer
March 6, 2003
The chart below represents average annual domestic first-purchase prices per barrel of oil, expressed in inflation-adjusted terms, with all prices in 2003 . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 26, 2003
Late last week, the new "trade deficit" figures were released. They show that in December of 2002 the estimated trade deficit was $44.2 billion, slightly larger . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 13, 2003
On average, Bill Clinton’s deficits were larger than George W. Bush’s. On average, the Clinton deficits over the first three years of that administration were . . .
Jerry Bowyer
February 4, 2003
On “This week with George Stephanopoulos,” the erstwhile Clinton spin doctor asked former astronaut Sally Ride where NASA would be focusing its investigation of . . .
Jerry Bowyer
December 13, 2002
"And I'd also like to say that this election is about the future. It's not about the collapse of the Shah in 1979, and it's not about Afghanistan in 1980." . . .
