Tag: Chuck Osborne


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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • March 5, 2025
  • Chuck Osborne

More for Less

Who wants to get more for less? I know what you are thinking: Who doesn’t want to get more for less? Evidently one answer is Peter Navarro, and any other economist who believes that a trade deficit is a bad thing. For those who are less familiar, Mr. Navarro is one of President Trump’s advisers…


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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 29, 2022
  • Chuck Osborne

The Wrong Question

If one seeks the right answer, she must ask the right question. Should we forgive student loans? Wrong question. Why does college cost so much that one has to take out a mortgage-sized loan to pay for it? That is the right question. 


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  • Iron Capital Perspectives
  • November 14, 2019
  • Chuck Osborne

Knowledge

Americans are rightly concerned with inequality. The strange omission in all of this is the lack of curiosity about what causes inequality.