Jerry Bowyer column

Jerry Bowyer is chief economist of BenchMark Financial Network and a CNBC contributor.

Jerry Bowyer

October 16, 2009

It wasn't Colonel Mustard in the library with the candelabra. And contrary to recent press reports, it wasn't Prince Alwaleed in the desert with a cartel. It . . .

Jerry Bowyer

October 9, 2009

The easy-money advocates had a tough summer. In August alone, the price level increased almost half a percent, raising the average annual rate of inflation for . . .

Jerry Bowyer

September 16, 2009

Perhaps no controversy in recent years illustrates more clearly the dismal state of American civics education than the controversy pertaining to Barack Obama's . . .

Jerry Bowyer

September 12, 2009

People rhetorically ask where God was on 9/11 as though He wasn't anywhere. Or they ask it accusingly, the way a detective asks a suspect if he has an alibi.  . . .

Jerry Bowyer

August 14, 2009

It's not enough for most people to know what the unemployment rate is and whether it's going up or down. It's not enough for investors and entrepreneurs living . . .

Jerry Bowyer

August 3, 2009

As President Obama steps up his rhetorical attempts to take credit for an improving economy, it seems proper for BuzzCharts to take a moment to review the data  . . .

Jerry Bowyer

July 28, 2009

Investors aren't sheep; they're more like cheetahs. And there may be no species of investor more cheetah-like than the American investor. The latest case in . . .

Jerry Bowyer

July 21, 2009

Back in 2006, when the federal-funds rate peaked at 5.25 percent, several economists writing for National Review Online argued that the Federal Reserve was too . . .

Jerry Bowyer

July 8, 2009

We bought almost 3 billion dollars worth of semiconductors on average over the past three months. We've been trending up since February. This is how the economy . . .

Jerry Bowyer

July 2, 2009

Today we saw the release of two piece of important employment data: the Challenger, Gray & Christmas monthly survey of lay-offs and the Monster Employment Index . . .

Jerry Bowyer

June 19, 2009

It's never a good sign when your Treasury Secretary announces a plan to overhaul the financial system and the market plunges 200 points that same day. But that . . .

Jerry Bowyer

May 6, 2009

We're going to need another Jack Kemp. We're in the same mess now as we were when he rose to prominence in the 1970s: rising taxes, energy rationing, and a . . .

Jerry Bowyer

February 17, 2009

(Originally published at townhall.com) This week, I watched with amazement Larry Kudlow's joust with Congressman Brad Sherman about accounting. Sherman was . . .

Jerry Bowyer

January 20, 2009

© Forbes.com John McIntyre of RealClearPolitics and I were both on Larry Kudlow's radio program on Saturday afternoon. Larry asked us both the same . . .

Jerry Bowyer

January 19, 2009

© Wall Street Journal Online Tomorrow the Pittsburgh Steelers square off against the Baltimore Ravens, and the Philadelphia Eagles square off against . . .

Jerry Bowyer

January 9, 2009

© CNBC.com There was a good Wall Street Journal piece Thursday morning on Satyam which by the way is Sanskrit for 'truth.' The CEO puffed up both . . .

Jerry Bowyer

January 7, 2009

© Forbes.com Yesterday former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt published a piece in the Wall Street Journal calling for more regulators as a response to the . . .

Jerry Bowyer

December 27, 2008

© Forbes.com "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people . . .

Jerry Bowyer

December 20, 2008

© Forbes.com George W. Bush has come full circle. He started his public career as the beneficiary of a government bailout, and he ends it as the . . .

Jerry Bowyer

December 2, 2008

© CNBC.com Who died and made the National Bureau of Economic Research boss? During the past two days my in-box has been flooded by NEWS ALERT: RECESSION . . .

Jerry Bowyer

November 30, 2008

It's astonishing and a little horrifying that America's elites know so little about their country's history. Case in point: Jared Bernstein of the Economic . . .

Jerry Bowyer

November 5, 2008

© Townhall.com "Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour . . .

Jerry Bowyer

November 4, 2008

Barack Obama is a Fabian socialist. I should know; I was raised by one. My Grandfather worked as a union machinist for Ingersoll Rand during the day. In the . . .