Dear Reader, ‘We’ve been very, very clear that we will not allow inflation to rise above two percent or less.’ Ben Bernanke We should probably be interested in what happens in Ukraine. In the last 30 days, the country has drawn more worldwide interest than it did in the last 2,000 years. And now everybody […]
Here Comes $7 Gas
Dear Reader, Consumers hate rising prices. Investors hate falling prices. About 90% of the voters want prices to stay steady. But the 10% who will decide the issue want them to go up. Here, we reflect on the fine mess the Fed has gotten us into. Breitbart News: ‘First gas, then heating and now rents. […]
Testing Our Dow/Gold System
Dear Reader, We don’t give investment advice in these daily columns. We just try to connect the dots. And one thing we notice is that they form patterns. Hope…despair. Empire…destruction. Summer…winter. Birth…death. Money printing…inflation. One thing follows another, shaped by some age-old template. Looking at the stock market, we see long cycles of boom and […]
Marooned!
Dear Reader, ‘We shall not cease from exploration ‘And the end of all our exploring ‘Will be to arrive where we started ‘And know the place for the first time.’ TS Eliot, Little Gidding A storm named Eunice hit Ireland over the weekend. Winds of 122mph were recorded in nearby Britain, the fastest ever. Gusts […]
16 Tons of Debt
First, ‘you load 16 tons and whaddya get…?’ We reported last week that inflation is costing the typical household around US$300 a month extra, just to stay in the same place. Where does that money come from? Here’s part of it; Business Insider: ‘Americans have been swiping their credit cards at record speed in the last few […]
The Colour of Money
Good ol’ Charlie Munger. Last week, the 98-year-old gave his opinion on the biggest danger facing US democracy. Yahoo! Finance was on the case: ‘Citing examples from the Roman Republic to Adolf Hitler to Latin America, Munger said, “Inflation is a very serious subject, you could argue it is the way democracies die.” ‘He notes that it […]
The Equality Myth
The American Elite Establishment has launched three major initiatives so far this century. All were based on lies, mistakes, and corruption. All were failures. ‘Weapons of mass destruction’ led off. There were none. But the US squandered US$8 trillion and thousands of lives looking for them. Then came Ben Bernanke’s whopper: ‘If we don’t do […]
Fools and Their Money
Is the Fed really as incompetent as it appears? Today, we take a look. The Fed’s inflation now vexes consumers…investors…and politicians. CNS: ‘The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose four-tenths of a cent Saturday to $4.754, a record high for the eighth time in the last nine […]
The $64 Trillion Question
‘The heart is devious above all else; ‘It is perverse… ‘Who can understand it? ‘I the Lord test the mind ‘And search the heart ‘To give to all according to their ways, ‘According to the fruit of their doings.’ Jeremiah, 17:9 ‘Science advances one funeral at a time’, said Max Planck, who meant that a […]
American Idle
‘A man…with no means of filling up time is as miserable out of work as a dog on the chain.’ George Orwell Yesterday, the rock and the hard place came closer together. CNBC reports: ‘Inflation surges 7.5% on an annual basis, even more than expected and highest since 1982. ‘…was even higher than the Wall Street […]
