Posts Tagged ‘ money ’
Our executive publisher, Addison Wiggin, received this email from Ron Hera and thought Whiskey Shooters should see it...
Addison,
I am not given to hyperbole. This is the most important message I have ever sent. I urge you to read it and to share it with others.
Earlier this week, I attended the ...read more
The Trouble with Happiness
May 16th, 2011 | By Whiskey Contributor | 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
How to Survive Financial Collapse Right Now
Mar 12th, 2010 | By Doug Casey | Category: Economics, Featured, Personal Investing, Politics
L: Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as ...read more
1,001 Reasons to Own Gold
Feb 23rd, 2010 | By Jeff Clark | Category: Featured, Gold
Tracking the numerous ongoing bullish factors for gold is quite a chore. There are, quite literally, so many compelling arguments for holding our favorite metal that I used to catalog them each month in our letter.
The reason there are so many “reasons” is because gold is unlike any other asset. ...read more
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
Romulus, Remus, Stimulus: A Brief History of Monetary Madness
Jul 27th, 2009 | By Bill Bonner | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Those whom the gods would destroy are first granted stimulus. When a man wins the lottery, for example, it has a stimulating effect on everyone around him. He usually spends the money quickly - often even before he gets it. But no matter how much he wins, he is usually ...read more
Money Isn’t Wealth
Jul 7th, 2009 | By Dan Denning | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Some Fridays are better than others. This last one was not pretty. Like a character that refuses to die in a bad horror movie, the U.S. job market posted some shocking June numbers. It has revived the dormant nightmare that this may be a long "L" shaped recession. Or even ...read more
401(k) as Dangerous as the Dollar
Jun 26th, 2009 | By Linda Brady Traynham | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
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
Inflation and Random Numbers, Part I
Jun 18th, 2009 | By Adrian Ash | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
"We are entering upon waters for which I have no chart and in which I therefore feel myself an utterly incompetent pilot."
– James Warburg of the banking dynasty, resigning as President Roosevelt's monetary advisor, 1933
Want to know where the price of gold, oil, the S&P, Euro or overseas stock markets ...read more
Shoveling Money into the Deceased Economy
May 19th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The Great Wish across America is to resume the life of comfort-and-convenience that seemed so nirvana-like just a few short years ago, when the very constellations of the heavens might have been renamed after heroic Atlanta realtors and Connecticut hedge fund warriors, and the boomer portfolios groaned with earnings, and ...read more

