Ed Bugos

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• Inflation Breakout

  Published 23 May 2001 | viewed 3,027 times

  Monetary policy of the pre-liberal era was either crude coin debasement, for the benefit of (the) financial administration (only rarely intended to cancel out outstanding…

• Nominal Net Worth

  Published 12 May 2001 | viewed 3,850 times

  "They use trickery and deceit because they are weak…" …a quote I pinched from the movie: Attila the Hun, where Attila assesses the crafty Roman…

• Inflation Drives GDP

  Published 03 May 2001 | viewed 3,953 times

  On the surface, real U.S. Gross Domestic Product grew by 0.5%, or at an annualized rate of 2% for the first quarter (2001). That was…

• The Quiet before the Storm

  Published 26 April 2001 | viewed 3,073 times

  The US Treasury (Bond) market is ready to submit to the inflation argument, the gold price is about to reveal a physical shortage of gold…

• Tsunami

  Published 19 April 2001 | viewed 3,361 times

  What would happen if one person, from each of the roughly 100 million households in the United States of America, went out and bought a…

• Inflation Paradox

  Published 11 April 2001 | viewed 3,125 times

  Paradox here means an economic dogma that is absurdly unreasonable The Fed's McTeer says: Focus on Growth not Inflation! Goldenbar's Bugos replies: Only if he…

• Bull Trap

  Published 30 March 2001 | viewed 4,696 times

  From the top of a mountain, Senator, all roads lead down… Mr. Greenspan, after a Humphrey Hawkins congressional testimony, replying to a pat on the…

• When The Bell Tolls

  Published 23 March 2001 | viewed 2,923 times

  Question for CNBC's morning Bond Bell: when does a Surplus turn into a Deficit? The answer: when Monetary Policy no longer works. When we're through…

• The Final Breakdown

  Published 15 March 2001 | viewed 3,201 times

  Here's a thought: how much (Fiat credit) money could you place on a Monopoly board before everything else becomes scarce relative to it? No wonder…

• Resolute Persuasion

  Published 05 March 2001 | viewed 3,223 times

  Thank you in advance for considering our subscription, which is offered starting with this week's GIC. Our introductory offer is US $50 per annum for…

• Monetary Statism

  Published 20 February 2001 | viewed 3,382 times

  "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."  - Benjamin Franklin   Nevertheless liberty is precisely what…

• Dead Reckoning

  Published 31 January 2001 | viewed 4,271 times

  Some people believe rhinoceros horns have medicinal properties. We might doubt this, and study might prove we are correct in our doubts. But as long…

• Bear Market Rally is Over

  Published 24 January 2001 | viewed 4,575 times

  If you have nothing intelligent to say it is better to say nothing at all… a thought that crossed my mind as I was muting…

• Dollar/Yen = Dollar/Gold

  Published 17 January 2001 | viewed 3,515 times

  The key to a sudden resurgence in investment demand for gold is the "perception" that the dollar cannot hold its purchasing power, or its objective…

• Operation SafeHaven

  Published 01 January 2001 | viewed 5,072 times

  "Operation SafeHaven!" was the U.S. Treasury Department's effort to trace the movement of stolen Nazi booty towards the end of the Second World War ……

• The Stress Test

  Published 10 January 2001 | viewed 3,393 times

  When Arthur Burns (allegedly in 1973) said that this process can take 25 years, or it can take 100 years, before it destroys mankind, he…

• The Quest for Economic Freedom

  Published 19 December 2000 | viewed 4,235 times

  All market manipulations are essentially manifestations of the socialist mentality, as the intervention necessarily dictates the misallocation of scarce resources. Thus, so long as governments…

• On the Utility of FedSpeak

  Published 12 December 2000 | viewed 3,723 times

  The more I think about the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more repulsive I find it...What Schrödinger writes about the visualizability of his theory…

• The Golden Bull

  Published 06 December 2000 | viewed 4,364 times

  The difficulty with scheming to deflate a bubble of this order and magnitude is that it will still be impossible to inflate it over again…

• Turkeys Can't Fly Far

  Published 28 November 2000 | viewed 5,503 times

  Always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life… …Melody from Monty Python's, The Life Of Brian Crude Light (1992-present) Dollar Index (1992-present) Sure, but which side is going to shine next year…