Jerry Bowyer is a radio and television talk show host. Mr. Bowyer also serves as the Chief Economist for the BenchMark Financial Network. You can reach him through his web page: http://www.jerrybowyer.com. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2012 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A few years ago, frustrated with the low quality of economic discussion in our nation, I decided that I needed to do something about it. As I did not have the power to cajole the whole country into listening to me, I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/05/10/god_and_economics_the_video_how_sound_economic_policies_lead_to_prosperity c8797d76-ff93-498b-83ce-da79e1bfc649 Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT I am America's amygdala. I reside in the temporal lobe of the human brain, near the hippocampus. There are two of me in each normal human brain, and we are both shaped like an almond, after which we are named. I am part... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/05/04/i_am_americas_amygdala bd37fe74-3162-4bfd-8733-dfe4ec0e3266 Fri, 04 May 2012 04:01:00 GMT In my last installment in this series I argued that talk show host Glenn Beck was raising legitimate concerns about the state of the nation, but that he had a history of predictions of imminent disasters which did not... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/04/28/glenn_beck_national_decline_and_the_story_of_the_roman_empire 34d532f3-c0ab-4fad-8ed5-a109d6316f78 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT Glenn Beck's analyses of the history of authoritarian movements has many people concerned, and justifiably so. Most recently Beck has been laying out the ways in which the progressive movement in the U.S. has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/04/14/two_cheers_for_glenn_beck_with_some_reservations 0d565670-2902-4fac-80aa-8f1992081471 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT I've known Rick Santorum for 22 years, having first met him in 1990 before he'd won his first campaign for Congress. I interviewed him on WORD-FM, an evangelical Christian radio station where I was a frequent guest host... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/04/05/problems_with_the_truth_confessions_of_a_22year_rick_santorum_observer 3b097775-1c4d-406f-ad4f-6157b123a39a Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:01:00 GMT In the previous article in this series I pointed out that even after recent dramatic sell-offs gold prices are still higher than one would expect if one saw them as being driven only by money creation. And this state of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/03/31/gold_money_creation_and_the_monetization_of_debt d67767f5-ad2c-4f15-9bb0-1820a7fe1f0c Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT Last August I wrote a short series for Forbes.com on valuation techniques for gold, (Some Thoughts For The Gold Bulls, The Case Against Buying Gold, and At $1,850/Ounce, Does Gold Still Glitter?). At the time I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/03/23/what_gold_sees_and_ben_bernanke_does_not 1a507f90-043d-44cd-93f9-0d157f2bcfe2 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:01:00 GMT In a previous column, I took the President to task for his repeated use, most recently in his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, of the phrase "my brother's keeper" in support of his fiscal policies. That column... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/03/09/my_brothers_keeper_answering_my_critics_and_obamas_defenders cdb87ead-a38b-43e1-9ae8-3e16ec9706d1 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT The great Austrian School economist Friedrich Hayek had an important insight in Prices and Production which should cause us to be on the lookout for some severe economic pain. He wrote that one of the signs of excessive... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/03/03/the_price_of_low_interest_rates_weaker_economic_recoveries 53dd2317-6051-4f86-9800-470f57b65e0a Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT In the outstanding 1980s miniseries about the development of the first atomic bomb, Day One, the Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard is quoted as saying that he always keeps his suitcases packed and at the door. Szilard had... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/02/24/what_is_the_liquidity_premium_what_does_it_mean f76459c4-0ede-4cf7-9917-65aef7dcc836 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT There are lots of things that people think are in the Bible, but really are not. For example, "God helps those who help themselves" is not there, nor is "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." There are some things,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/02/10/dear_president_obama_im_only_my_brothers_keeper_if_my_brother_is_my_sheep ed3e1530-9214-4103-ba47-91bec59f4bdb Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT We've already taken a look at the ways in which modern Keynesian economics and its nephew modern portfolio theory insulate finance from economics by failing to use the interest rate as a bridge between the two... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/02/03/why_analysts_cant_properly_value_stocks_and_bonds d48dad3b-cebe-43ec-b457-639950a19019 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT Why does everybody start talking about systemic risk, after a crisis has already started? If we define a systemic risk event as something large enough to affect the entire global financial and economic system, then you... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/01/30/on_risk_follow_the_iron_lady 14c36265-c3a5-46f8-b4c2-5751d923c9d9 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT I've been writing lately about right tail risk, which refers to the possibility of the occurrence of unusual and unexpected events which might make the whole global economy better. With most of the risk management world... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/01/17/forget_systemic_risk_lets_look_for_system_saving_events c872d832-abc6-45b4-a2b1-4097351931af Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT Christmas season is as good a time as ever to remind you that a probability distribution has two tails. Event distributions have been getting a lot of attention over the past several years, especially their tails. It... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JerryBowyer/2012/01/07/christmas_kurtosis_fat_tails_black_swans_and_risk_management_pt_2 cc54917b-a575-4d81-b742-5ac7b99d2832 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:01:00 GMT