Thankful to Earn a Living Despite the Federal Reserve

Thankful to Earn a Living Despite the Federal Reserve

Although my new landscape design and installation business, Lowcountry Vistas Charleston, LLC, has prevented me from disseminating Solidus.Center’s message as of late, I’m profoundly appreciative on this Thanksgiving for the opportunity to do something I love in a perpetually-bad Fed-inspired job market. A market in which, in classic Orwellian Fedspeak, “full employment” means millions of educated and indebted Americans working far below their potential.

I have little time for Solidus.Center these days, but I’d like to leave everyone with a parting thought:

The Fed is an efficient …

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Fed-Engineered Jobs Failure

Fed-Engineered Jobs Failure

Author’s note: I apologize for the limited updates over the last few months. I’ve been working hard getting my new landscaping venture off of the ground, and I’ve had little time for anything else.

Nearly seven years ago, way back in 2009, Keynesian economists were coming out of the woodwork to crow about the “green shoots” and the “V-shaped recovery” the Fed had engineered with its loose monetary policy. Today, in the latter part of 2015, nearly SEVEN YEARS of zero interest rates and trillions upon …

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