Hey here’s a question to start your Wednesday off with. If Bernie Madoff gets 150 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme, what do you think the people who designed Social Security and the Superannuation scheme ought to get? And speaking of colossally stupid government programs, you may have seen the news that the U.S. …read more
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Texas U. S. Representative John Carter has galloped in to rescue us from the Cap & Tax bill, HR 2454, by proposing limitations on price increases that would repeal the bill automatically if the program raised diesel or gas prices by more than ten cents a gallon or our home ...read more
"Legally defining the official dollar/gold price and backing it with convertibility is the only means by which...the markets can be assured that Volcker's successors would not be tempted to try another monetarist experiment." -Jude Wanniski, former Reagan advisor, April 1982 So does the price of gold rise or fall in a deflation? Hint: ...read more
Damn you, World Bank. The World Bank now says the global economy will contract by 2.9% this year instead of 1.7%. That could be right. But that's not the reason stocks are falling. The rally that began in March has now run out of steam. It's also run out of news ...read more
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) had a much-ballyhooed meeting to discuss global economics and shake their fists at the U.S. powers that be for crushing their U.S. investments. We have commented on their plans and purposes on numerous occasions. Now that the meeting has come and gone, let's take ...read more
It is a matter of almost holy writ with us here in the Whiskey Bar that "the poor man's gold" is something we should be buying with every spare non-silver dime we have. We believe! We believe! We believe on fundamentals, technicals, and common sense. We even believe all this in the ...read more
Gary seemed down, today, so I'm going to share that I got a dandy nasty gram from a charmless young liberal thug who implied that all the evil in this nation is due to you spoiled Baby Boomers (Don't blame me! I am a war model and my darling Charles ...read more
Prophets are famous for being without honor in their own country, and it isn't any fun being Cassandra. We're considered alarmist nuts until what we have foreseen comes to pass--and repulsive thereafter if we say "I told you so!" Well, we told you so about a lot of things, including the ...read more
I bet you don’t own enough gold. Before you tell me I’m wrong, let me ask it this way... If inflation returns, or even hyperinflation... If the economic crisis persists and gets worse... If uncertainty and fear continue, and chaos and rioting begin... If stock markets languish or suffer another meltdown... If the recovery spending of ...read more
