Jim Amrhein is a cocksure, venomous disbeliever in the ability of governments to do much of anything right especially compared with the vast, yet grotesquely shackled power of the American entrepreneur. Degreed in political science, Jim is a widely published columnist on political issues, both under his own byline and as a ghostwriter for one of America’s most outspoken critics of the corrupt farce our elected officials have made of the pure, evolving, and self-correcting system they’ve been entrusted to maintain.
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Jul 31st, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
It’s hard to be away from Whiskey.
So many things I want to talk about have come to the fore in just the two short months since my last essay. The Supreme Court decision on the DC gun ban. The Chinese pollution debacle that’s becoming more evident by the day as ...
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Tags: agora financial investment symposium, Jim Amrhein, vancouver
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May 30th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
A Parting Gift, Part II
“I’ll be back.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, as The Terminator, 1984
Yesterday I gave you some of my highlights from last year’s Agora Financial Investment Symposium. While last year’s experience is one that I’ll remember forever, what you can expect this year will be even better. And there’s a ...
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Tags: agora financial investment symposium, I.O.U.S.A, Jim Rogers, vancouver
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May 29th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit that we shake hands and part.
— Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5)
I’m not much for gooey goodbyes — even if they’re most likely only temporary.
But on the other hand, I couldn’t just up and stop writing for Whiskey & ...
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Tags: geothermal energy, gold and silver, mining, oil and gas
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Apr 17th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Energy
SOMETIMES, I DON'T REALIZE HOW HOT a topic is until I write about it — and get flooded with feedback. Clearly, nuclear energy is such a topic. Predictably, some of you clapped me on the back, some took me to task...
And both for what you thought I was saying: That nuclear ...
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Tags: Chernobyl, deep-space nuclear waste disposal, GHG, nuclear energy, nuclear power, uranium mining
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Mar 13th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Energy
IN THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THIS SERIES, I spilled most of my ink exposing what I perceive to be the agenda of much of today’s commentary on nuclear energy in the United States: Sabotage.
Not literal sabotage, of course — though any discussion of atomic power must at least touch on ...
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Tags: atomic power, nuclear energy production, nuclear power argument, safe nuclear power, Three Mile Island
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Mar 10th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Energy
I REALLY DON’T KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER than any other average American who lives within a 75-mile radius of a trio of nuke plants (one of them Three Mile Island, in fact). And about the closest contact I’ve ever had to anything with a nuclear half-life is the ...
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Tags: electricity generation, nuclear power, nuclear power plants, World Business Academy
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Macro Economics
“Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYONE WILL BE WONDERING ABOUT IT as they read this, I have to disclose something right up front: I’m one of the few people you’ve ever met (if one can say that writers and their readers ...
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Tags: free markets, Personal Liberties, public health, smoking ban, tobacco companies
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Feb 1st, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Emerging Markets
“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Chapter 2
“My friends are toys. I make them. It’s a hobby. I’m a genetic designer.”
— J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), Blade Runner, 1982
CALL ME A GEEK, BUT ONE OF THE GREAT HIGHLIGHTS of my 2007 was ...
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Tags: Blade Runner, genetic engineering, stem cells
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Jan 16th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Commodities, Oil
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can’t reach…”
— Strother Martin, as “The Captain,” in Cool Hand Luke, 1967
BEFORE I GET STARTED, I WANT TO THANK the Whiskey & Gunpowder readership for their feedback to all the installments of this series, positive or negative. As ...
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Tags: Al Gore global warming, CO2 and climate change, global warming theory, offshore oil rigs, world oil supply
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Jan 11th, 2008 |
By Jim Amrhein |
Category: Oil
AS YOU ALL KNOW BY NOW, ON THE FIRST BUSINESS DAY of what’s looking to be a shaky year economically for the U.S., oil futures hit the dreaded $100-per-barrel mark, like just about everyone had been predicting. I’m far from a genius for having seen that one coming…
I seem to ...
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Tags: consumption of oil, price of oil, world demand for oil, world oil supplies
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