The Mogambo Guru

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• Awaiting the 'Zero Hour' of Available Credit

  Published 15 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I watch expectantly as the national debt again nears the debt limit, and Zero Hour is just a few weeks away, a term I cleverly…

• Living Well on Gold and Silver

  Published 12 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Naturally, I bristle at people ignoring me except to say hurtful things, like, "Eww! Gross! Eat with your mouth closed!" and who then turn right…

• When the Government Should Do Nothing

  Published 01 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Gary North in his Reality Check newsletter penned the essay 'Gold vs. Guns and Badges,' wherein he notes that 'There are only two conceptual options…

• Buying Silver and Avoiding the Sharks

  Published 30 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I keep pounding, pounding, pounding the table that silver is the biggest bargain out there, for, at last count, a jillion reasons, and that anybody…

• Salivating at the Upside Potential of the Gold Market

  Published 26 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Not long ago, as I recall, a pension fund in some foreign country, one of those Scandinavian ones I think, was ordered to invest no…

• Gold and Silver: Head and Shoulders Above the Market

  Published 22 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I admit that I am pretty lazy, and I don't do a lot of technical analysis of markets and/or prices, but I do some charting…

• A Monetary Policy that Encourages Malinvestment

  Published 17 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Thorsten Polleit, of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, penned an article in The Free Market newsletter of the Ludwig von Mises Institute titled…

• The Quantifiable Problem With Private Sector Salaries

  Published 16 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I was particularly interested in this week's ubiquitous newspaper insert, Parade magazine, as its cover featured the interesting article "What People Earn. Our Annual Salary…

• The Probability of More Quantitative Easing

  Published 11 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It would be an understatement to say that I was flabbergasted to see that the monetary base jumped $130 billion dollars in two weeks! Well,…

• Underestimating Lots of Money

  Published 08 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  According to Harper's Index, the "estimated value of Chinese household income that goes unreported is $1.4 trillion." To put it in perspective, the follow-up item…

• Printing Enough Money to Buy the World's Silver

  Published 01 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I thought I had heard all the good arguments to buy silver, mostly from me asking myself two important questions. First, "Why am I not…

• Food Price Inflation Calculator

  Published 24 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute writes, "The price of everything seems to have skyrocketed. Only housing, the dollar and inflation-adjusted income are negative." I…

• Sustainable Shortfalls on Unsustainable Debt

  Published 23 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  From the Economic Collapse Blog, an essay I found at LewRockwell.com, we learn the horrifying news that the United States Census Bureau has, for some…

• Calculating the Misery of Inflation

  Published 17 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I was, unfortunately, sober enough to realize that I needed to get a lot drunker if I was going to withstand the horror of reading…

• Why Increasing Bank Credit Can Only End in Catastrophe

  Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I have to admit that I was stunned that Fed Credit (the magical fairy dust from which money appears out of thin air) two weeks…

• Decoding the Truth About Inflation

  Published 10 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Proving once again that investing in fixed-yield bonds when the foul, filthy Federal Reserve is creating so much money (so that their governments can deficit-spend…

• Anticipating a Budget Deficit

  Published 03 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I am constantly amazed at the number of people who think that a budget deficit is the same thing as the total federal deficit, which…

• Indications of the Broadest Measure of Money Supply

  Published 02 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Gold Report interviewed John Williams of ShadowStats.com, who said, "I continue to track M3, the Fed's broadest measure of the money supply until it…

• Inflation to Help the Less Fortunate?

  Published 27 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  I almost didn't read the essay by Gary Gibson, the managing editor of the Whiskey & Gunpowder newsletter, because he was talking about Paul Krugman,…

• New World Order: Food Price Inflation; House Price Deflation

  Published 26 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  You can tell by my bleary, bloodshot eyes, my rumpled appearance, my musky aromas and my overtly hostile attitude that I have been holed up…