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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • February 7, 2025
  • Chuck Osborne

The Master of Chaotic Flamboyance

Love him or hate him, but either way you have to admit Donald Trump has style. He doesn’t just build hotels; he builds hotels with his name plastered on them in huge gold letters. He has been this way his whole life, so he is not just going to quietly go about the business of rightsizing government…


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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • December 9, 2024
  • Chuck Osborne

Mankind Was My Business

The “dealings of my trade” are to maximize the financial welfare of our clients. Maximizing economic growth is part of that equation, which means when I discuss economic policies I will point out when they actually hurt the economy, and that is what gets me in trouble.


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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • September 19, 2024
  • Chuck Osborne

This is Taxing

I might be in the minority here, but this presidential election season seems more taxing than most. I really wish there was an interesting, or even realistic, tax proposal I could dissect for you all, but nope. All we are getting is “red meat” for the bases.  The Harris proposal includes raising corporate taxes. This…


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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • August 27, 2024
  • Chuck Osborne

Pop-Tart Economics

What do Pop-Tarts have to do with economic policy? Everything. It is Presidential election season, and 2024 is the year of so-called populist policy suggestions, which are popular among people who know as much about economics as our Pop-Tart loving children knew about nutrition. 


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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • July 2, 2024
  • Chuck Osborne

Threats to Democracy

With freedom comes responsibility. Our form of government will survive either one of these candidates, as we are not that fragile. However, the one thing it will not survive is the gross lack of participation.