Gary Gibson is the managing editor for Whiskey and Gunpowder. He joins the Whiskey staff as a long-time fan and reader of both Whiskey and Gunpowder and the Daily Reckoning. A graduate of Fordham University, Gary now spends his days reading about and writing on limited government, sound money, personal responsibility and resource investing.
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Oct 26th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Detroit must be feeling like a streetwalker far past her prime.
Some 9,000 homes and lots went up for tax foreclosure auction in the American symbol of industrial urban failure…yet 80% of them remain unsold despite a minimum bid of $500.
How the world turns.
Once Detroit was a dynamic city, the urban ...
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Tags: cities, Detroit, market forces, Politics
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
5 comments
May 11th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Looks like I started kicking myself too soon.
A few weeks ago I explained why I’m going to have to spend the next few years as an indentured servant to the feds to pay the taxes and penalty on my 401(k) withdrawal…but if I hadn’t done it when I did, I ...
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Tags: defined benefits, retirement funds
Posted in Featured, Personal Investing |
16 comments
May 4th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I was more than a little thrilled to hear about a new potential pandemic. I was more than a little disappointed when I found out it didn't involve zombies.
I should admit up front that I am a doom-and-gloom sort through and through. I'm also a fan of spectacular collapses and ...
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Tags: civilization, collapse, pandemic
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
4 comments
Apr 15th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Currencies, Featured, Personal Investing, Politics
Your editor is as rueful as can be today, Shooters…absolutely full of rue…
I’m like a former child star, tidying up the cell he shares with his prison boyfriend and wondering where it all went wrong...
How many of you are wondering on this latest April 15 — as I am — ...
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Tags: tax day, tea party
Posted in Currencies, Featured, Personal Investing, Politics |
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Mar 13th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties
Morning Whiskey: The First Shot’s on Me
Greeting Shooters,
Your submissions are rolling in, but I figured I’d pour the first shot.
Welcome to Morning Whiskey. We’re going to use this little corner of our site to feature your thoughts on the matters dear to all the hearts at this bar.
First up: Muntadhar ...
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Tags: George W. Bush, Madoff, Ponzi
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Morning Whiskey, Personal Liberties |
6 comments
Feb 17th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Credit isn’t wealth. A lot of people are discovering that the hard way. Welcome to the credit deflation prelude to hyperinflation.
During a credit deflation, things get cheaper. Without lines of credit, people can’t bid things up and prices fall to their “cash on hand” level. Given a long enough time, ...
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Tags: credit, Gold, hyperinflation, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics |
12 comments
Jan 16th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
In a few days the offspring of the sexual congress between an African black (who really and truly was from an actual nation in Africa) and an American white of European descent will be sworn in as president of the United States. I don’t think this amounts to much at ...
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Tags: race, socialism, state, welfare
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
24 comments
Jan 6th, 2009 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
As we hunker down in the Whiskey Bar and await the hyperinflationary doom that is bound to come, we have to marvel at the reasons for and manner of our nation’s destruction. As a group currently numbering somewhere around 300 million souls, we’ve sold out our security, freedom and future ...
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Tags: government, market
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
13 comments
Dec 5th, 2008 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Politics
One of the conditions of employment as managing editor for Whiskey & Gunpowder—aside from rabid adherence to Austrian School economics—was relocation to Baltimore. I really didn't think much of it at the time. I'd spent nearly my entire life in one of the four boroughs of the City of New ...
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Tags: federal government, ghetto, government
Posted in Featured, Politics |
10 comments
Nov 21st, 2008 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Society functions best when each individual minds his own business…literally. When concerns are local and governments miniscule — just doing modest things like protecting property rights and enforcing contracts — then things generally work out for the best. When governments get ambitious and each citizen seeks ...
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Tags: currency, depression, gold standard, taxes
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics |
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