Jeff Carter

Jeff was an independent trader and member of the CME board, started Hyde Park Angels and West Loop Ventures in Chicago. He has an undergrad degree from the Gies College of Business at Illinois, and an MBA from Chicago Booth.

Unraveling the Claim of Trump Financial Engineering

Commentary In the coming year, the United States has to refinance $7 trillion in debt that expires. A ...

Viewpoints March 6, 2025
Did the Kitty Roar?

GameStop shares shot up on May 13–14, then started to decline. Did it have anything to do with ...

Viewpoints May 17, 2024
IPOs and the Wealth Gap

Commentary Recently, a few companies went public on Wall Street. One, Reddit, has done spectacularly. Former President Donald ...

Business Columnists April 2, 2024
Curing Inflation Isn’t Hard

Commentary Last week, the American public received a bit of a shock if they weren’t paying attention. The ...

Business Columnists February 15, 2024
The Wall Street Charlatans Are Out in Force

Commentary The turn of the year brings familiar things. Everyone goes to the gym and makes resolutions to ...

Business Columnists January 4, 2024
Is the Fed Done?

Commentary The sentiment sweeping across markets is that the Federal Reserve is done raising rates and that inflation ...

Viewpoints December 21, 2023
$33 Trillion in National Debt Means More Taxes

Commentary Over the past few weeks, various new tax schemes have been proposed in other newspapers. I have ...

Viewpoints December 4, 2023
Price Limits Are Terrible for People

Commentary Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) recently introduced a bill that would limit the interest rate credit card issuers ...

Viewpoints September 11, 2023
Tune Out the Climate Change Fear-Mongering

Commentary If you're like me, you're being inundated with all kinds of climate change stories on every website ...

Viewpoints August 1, 2023
SEC Lawsuit Against Coinbase and Binance Sparks Controversy, Political Maneuvering

Commentary On June 6, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fired a bombshell at the cryptocurrency industry. It's ...

Viewpoints June 7, 2023
The Interbank Debt Market: A Warning Sign for the Stock Market’s Future

Commentary Most people look at the stock market as a sign of the health of the economy. If ...

Viewpoints June 5, 2023
The Changing Rules of Building Wealth in the Technological Age

Commentary If you are under the age of 40, you likely are actively engaged in building a family ...

Personal Finance April 25, 2023
The Fiduciary Responsibilities of Boards of Directors in Terribly Run Cities

Commentary The boards of directors of public and private companies are charged with a duty of fiduciary responsibility under the ...

Business Columnists April 11, 2023
The US Dollar Will Stay the World’s Reserve Currency

Commentary There has been a lot of worry about the burgeoning partnership between Russia and China. Russia’s economy ...

Business Columnists April 4, 2023
Is America Still a Capitalist Society? The Case for Letting the Market Speak

Commentary In theory, America is a capitalistic society. One beautiful part about capitalism is that everyone gets to ...

Business Columnists March 29, 2023
Banks Linked to Cryptocurrency Community Collapse: Could New Regulations Have Prevented This?

Commentary We've seen several banks fail in the first months of 2023. The failures seemingly came out of ...

Cryptocurrency March 13, 2023
A Run on the Banks

Commentary On Mar. 9, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) lost 60 percent of its value. It showed an aftertax ...

Business Columnists March 10, 2023
Why Tax Stock Buybacks?

Commentary The Biden administration has passed a 1 percent tax on stock buybacks. A stock buyback is when ...

Business Columnists March 8, 2023
The Case for CryptoCurrency

Commentary Most people have heard about cryptocurrency. If you listen to Warren Buffet’s partner Charlie Munger, you would ...

Viewpoints March 1, 2023
The Bear Market Ain’t Over Till It’s Over

Commentary On Feb. 21, the stock market got hit by a freight train. It surprised a lot of ...

Business Columnists February 23, 2023
US 4th-Quarter Venture Capital Investment Drops 65 Percent, Lowest Level Since 2013

Commentary Venture capital investment is down in the United States. The fundraising environment has become not only tougher ...

Viewpoints February 21, 2023
If You Don’t Sell, Did You Lose Money or Not?

Commentary Last year, the stock market was down big. The exchange-traded fund that mimics the tech stocks on ...

Business Columnists February 15, 2023
Is the Fair Tax Fair?

Commentary Rep. Earl Carter (R-Ga.) introduced a new tax proposal called the “fair tax.” Predictably, Democrats politicized the proposal. Sen. ...

Business Columnists February 7, 2023
Outsourcing Investment or Taking More Risk?

Commentary In 2022, the S&P 500 Index returned -19.64 percent. If you run the same numbers and include dividend ...

Business Columnists February 3, 2023