Charles Ortel became a lapsed member of the silent majority in August 2007 when he began alerting the public to dangers posed by structural changes in the global economy. Since then, Mr. Ortel has appeared in the print, radio and television media with increasing frequency. Brass Tacks will attempt to offer nonpartisan perspective on factors contributing to the unresolved, burgeoning crisis and discuss potential solutions. Mr. Ortel graduated from Horace Mann School, Yale College and Harvard Business School.
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The way animals quiet and birds flee before natural disasters hit, professional investors months ago presciently cut their exposures to American retailers. Now, a man-made tsunami rushes toward the sector that will crush overleveraged vendors, landlords and communities across the country.
Investing in infrastructure inside Mexico would create employment there, while spurring demand for goods and services American companies might export.
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
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.
What happened on Sept. 11, 2001, could return this year on the unlucky 13th anniversary of the last terrorist attack. Evildoers who twist Islamic thinking into acts of terror already have announced intent to do America in.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Until recently, Americans have been content to ignore important facts about the state of our government and our economy.
Following the carnage that spread last week in financial markets, the world remains awash in valuation bubbles, manufactured by three machines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Once rich beyond measure, Argentina now flirts with default and catastrophe yet again.
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.
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.
