Linda Brady Traynham

Linda Brady Traynham is a former editor and analytical project report writer and is now a Whiskey & Gunpowder field correspondent on a ranch in the Republic of Texas. She studied Counseling at Boston University and got her Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Hawaii.

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What Can We Learn from 1860?

Nov 17th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

One of my friends read “Should We Talk About Secession,” an article just posted on the ‘net. He’s from the wild and wooly Montana-Idaho-Wyoming school of thought and commented, “I’ve been talking about it for two years.” Woohoo...some of us have been talking about it since 1840. I haven’t read the piece ...read more

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, cotton, slavery, South
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 18 comments

The Top Ten Things to Worry About Surviving in a Bad Economic Climate

Nov 16th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

I staked out my position on the Doom & Gloom side back in 1992 when I was shocked by the problem I discuss first. What should you be concerned about? Start with the basics: what do you think you might have to survive? No point in making plans if you ...read more

Tags: depression, government, protest, recession, top ten
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 16 comments

The Jobless Recovery, So Called

Oct 19th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

Agora Financial's Founding Father Bill Bonner, writing in his Daily Reckoning, says there are approximately 131 M jobs in the USA. Justice Little, Editor of Taipan Daily, also out of the AF stable, says that 26 M jobs have been lost. The Federal Government says that the unemployment rate is 9.8%. Traditional ...read more

Tags: government, recovery, unemployment
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 13 comments

Tires from China and the Tyranny of Tariffs

Sep 24th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Macro Economics

Looks like Boy Blunder Two is going to do it again, breaking campaign promises, endangering the economy by pandering to outraged union members, annoying the USA's biggest creditor, and imposing yet another enormous tax on the American people who drive cars. This time the Messiah proposes to increase the tariff ...read more

Tags: China, tariff, unions
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics | 10 comments

The Education Bubble, Part I

Sep 16th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Politics

For most of the life of the United States of America one of the biggest dreams was that the next generation would exceed what their parents had achieved. Horatio Alger, "any boy can grow up to be president," "I want my children to have a better education than I did..." ...read more

Tags: America, college, education
Posted in Featured, Politics | 29 comments

Living on the Bubble

Sep 10th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

Some bubbles are more resilient than others. Some bubbles have a significant amount of yield to them, depending upon how fully they were inflated and how sharp the object poking them is. Some bubbles have thick, yielding coverings and are never inflated to rigidity beyond the point at which little kids sit ...read more

Tags: bond market, currency, silver
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 14 comments

Free Lunches, Money from Nothing and Limits to Government Theft

Sep 4th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Politics

Consider economics and governments as resembling a restaurant. In order for there to be a restaurant at all some entrepreneur has to put his money and vision on the line and open it. He has a thing called "overhead," which is irreducible on-going expenses whether he has any customers at all ...read more

Tags: fiat money, government, inflation, money, taxes
Posted in Featured, Politics | 14 comments

Pushing National Healthcare with Senator Kennedy’s Corpse

Sep 1st, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum Dicendum Est -- In a Pig's Ear. In the biggest display of maudlin excess since -- well, since "Jacko" died, but probably going back to the death of Elvis -- the hive started shrieking that the health disaster bill should be renamed "Kennedy Care" and passed ...read more

Tags: abortion, assisted suicide, government, healthcare
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 34 comments

Libertarian Mating

Aug 14th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

It shocks me to realize that not only does the younger generation need an old-fashioned service, but that so, apparently do those who are supposed to be older and wiser. Never let it be said that I shirk my duty (so long as it does not involve mopping floors or ...read more

Tags: conservative dating, Libertarian Mating
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 19 comments

Ding, Dong, the Bear Is Dead

Aug 11th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey

TownHall had an hysterically funny -- from my perspective--article Sunday a week ago. As a kindness I will not reveal the columnist's name because not said author will cringe in months to come over the nonsense uttered. The producer of the screed's triumphant cry is..."Ding, Dong, the Bear is dead!" Old piece ...read more

Tags: bear market, cash for clunkers, recovery
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey | 7 comments