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Instant Karma Comes for the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
Here is our best investment tip. We wish we could say it was based on inside information, but unless being old and experienced count as cheating, we’re afraid that even under the Biden Securities and Exchange Commission, this advice is strictly street legal: Always bet against the force-fed fancies of politicians. Currently those include the […]
The United States as a Petrostate?
The financial press has recently been celebrating that the United States has reached all time-highs in oil production. Some Republicans, accustomed to blistering Biden for crippling our oil and gas extraction fear losing an issue. Into this confusion steps the indispensable John Tamny who points out the real reasons U.S. production is high, and they are […]
Heat or Light for the New Year
Let there be light! Around the world, we see an incendiary spread of heat. As the light of freedom dwindles, the heat rises. “Burn Baby Burn” in many languages. Baffled by the crippling futilities of socialism, the political world moves toward the distraction of ever-hotter conflicts, seeking “national emergencies” to divert the electorate from the […]
Seasons Greetings; Good Will and Peace to All!
Merry Christmas and happy New Year! We spare you our regular Gilder Guideposts on the simple grounds that we know no one who wants to read about the Fed, or Bidenomics, U.S. non-strategy or other multivarious journeys towards Hell in handbaskets, smack in the middle of Christmas vacation. And we promise you it was even […]
Is Your AI Smarter Than an Intern?
Abroad is the notion that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to replace the human mind. Nonsense. AI cannot substitute for a human mind. What it can do—especially in business applications—is substitute for the mind-numbing. The best, most practical business of AI is to operate on the level of one of your slower interns. Consider One […]
America’s China Hawks Get Their Way; Chinese Chip Makers Get the Money
The U.S. ban on selling advanced microchips and chip-making equipment to China has been a huge success—for China. Over the last 12 months, revenues of Chinese semiconductor equipment companies—they make the machines that make the chips– grew almost 40%; sales of U.S. and other western companies subject to the export ban declined by 0.6% Forced […]
Jobs Harder to Find, Powell to Party?
Amazing is the U.S. media’s reverence for, of all institutions, the Federal Reserve. You’d think that our Democrat-leaning press might be just a little skeptical about an institution that takes ensuring the nation’s titan saurian banks never have a bad day as its most sacred calling. And yet the media, even our beloved Wall Street […]
Going Spartacus for the Jews We Love
Two weeks ago, Dennis Prager wrote a column every American, but especially every American Christian, should read and take to heart. In the column, which you can find here, Dennis makes a suggestion that we believe really could make a difference against the rising tide of antisemitism in the United States. At a minimum, it […]
Thanksgiving Day Dinner Celebration
Thanksgiving Day Dinner Celebration As we approach Thanksgiving dinner and prepare to give thanks for our bounties, the United States Farm Bureau Federation contrives an annual wet blanket of “inflation” data-smog. This year, it declares, will be the second most costly Thanksgiving on record. The average price of the classic feast for 10 will come in […]
ChatGPT and Lobachevski
What made ChatGPT the genius that it is today? What brought Sam Altman and his team their new wealth and fame? What is the secret of the commercial triumph of artificial intelligence (AI) and its breakthrough success ChatGPT, recently released by OpenAI in a quaternary “Turbo” version updating its data to April 2023. What made […]