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How to Handle Getting Fired

May 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Wired Magazine this month offers a few pointers on how to disguise on your resume the fact that you have been fired. The main point is to come up with a negotiated settlement that has you resigning from your job. Many employers will go along with these because they fear ...read more

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Silver Price Collapse Reminds of Risks in Paper Market

May 20th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Personal Investing
Gold and silver are strange things. They have been used for centuries as money and only in the last 40 years have they been shoved aside by the financial communists — yet they still exist as a free market monetary asset despite the force of all the government’s guns. The strange ...read more

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Posted in Featured, Gold, Personal Investing | 13 comments


The Trouble with Happiness

May 16th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
Our nation has a happiness fetish. Each year, publishers print thousands of books on the subject. Talk show hosts offer advice from psychologists and therapists. Magazine covers promise “The Short-Cut to Total Joy” or “The Seven Secrets of Wedded Bliss.” You might reasonably wonder why the market is so large. A ...read more

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Land of the Free, Indeed

Apr 15th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing, Politics
Woe are we. There is nary a nation state on the planet where a man can be free. The entire planet is a cobweb of governments, police, taxes, laws, rules and regulations. It is with great sorrow that much of the population of the planet now has Stockholm syndrome. They’ve grown ...read more

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Never Retire

Mar 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Investing
Before the mid 1950s, there was no “retirement” as we use the term today. A 1950 poll showed most workers aspired to work for as long as possible. Quitting was for the disabled. Life did not offer “twilight years,” two decades of uninterrupted leisure courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Just since ...read more

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The Coming Rout in Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Gold and Silver

Mar 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Commodities, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Personal Investing
There’s a scenario that could play out between May and September in which commodities (including my beloved silver) and the stock and bond markets could all sell off between 20% and 40%. The trigger will be the cessation of QE II and a multi-month pause before QE III. This is a ...read more

Posted in Commodities, Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Personal Investing | 6 comments


A Self-Employed Carpenter’s Continued Thoughts on the Future

Feb 11th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
My first article on this topic concerned the sharp contraction of the residential construction industry in the U.S. I am a self-employed carpenter. The main thrust of that article was that the housing market is not going to recover to anything approaching its zenith. Bloomberg Business reported in January that housing ...read more

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The Most Important Part of Self Reliance in the Age of Turmoil

Oct 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Investing
We have entered what I call the Age of Turmoil, a time that is marked by rapid change and fluctuating crises. The old system of debt and consumption that gave us great salaries, generous benefits, stock market and housing appreciation, and a high standard of living is gone forever. What’s happening ...read more

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Human Nature and the GRA, Part I

Oct 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Morning Whiskey, Personal Investing
A very bright reader extrapolated from two very different recent articles and asked, "Linda...? Have you considered what can happen when forced GRAs are implemented and the consequences to those who refuse to play and sell out before the deadline?" Blush. No, I hadn't; I talked about the proposed GRA ...read more

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Posted in Economics, Featured, Morning Whiskey, Personal Investing | 21 comments


How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Turmoil

Oct 11th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Personal Investing
I was in Paris recently, in a park near the Louvre museum enjoying a lazy summer day. I wasn’t the only one with such a great idea, there were probably a few hundred others enjoying the sunshine — children playing football, kissing lovers entwined on the grass, businessmen on a ...read more

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