The Mogambo Guru

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• Melting a Grammy for the Gold

  Published 15 April 2008 | viewed 3,790 times

  "I hope you have a good grip on your hat because it is going to fly up off of your freaking head when I tell…

• Government Spending Burns the Toast

  Published 11 April 2008 | viewed 4,003 times

  "This same bankrupt America is getting ready to send out $160 billion in 'economic stimulus' checks, where the government is literally giving people free money…

• Trillions Embarrass a Billion-Dollar Bulwark

  Published 08 April 2008 | viewed 4,124 times

  "Half of the Fed's stash of government debt has been used up already! Yikes! And how big is the entire rest of the Fed's stash…

• Financial Humor isn't Funny

  Published 02 April 2008 | viewed 3,789 times

  "Mr. Dunkelberg is more direct, and says that people who depend on their little bits of interest that they make on their saved money (like…

• Ingesting the Polluted Ocean of Commerce

  Published 27 March 2008 | viewed 3,749 times

  "Now get this: Total reserves are $43 billion (about the same as it has been for more than a decade!), and out of that total,…

• Inflationary Economy Causes Massive Coronary

  Published 26 March 2008 | viewed 4,559 times

  "I am frantically pantomiming 'dialing the telephone' with the little mobility I have in my right arm, trying to get someone to call 911 to…

• Stepping Up the Spending Surveillance

  Published 18 March 2008 | viewed 3,849 times

  "I note with alarm that with the index at 1293, everybody who bought the stocks of this index since the third quarter of 2006 has…

• The Dinosaur Gold-Standard Economy

  Published 13 March 2008 | viewed 4,234 times

  "The dinosaurs had a monetary system based on gold, which explains why the historical record shows absolutely no inflation in prices during the entire Jurassic…

• Bernanke Gets it Backwards

  Published 11 March 2008 | viewed 5,200 times

  "The rise in retail prices is caused by...the Federal Reserve creating excessive amounts of money and credit. High prices, therefore, are the RESULT of the…

• An Apple a Day Will Kill You

  Published 07 March 2008 | viewed 4,928 times

  "An apple a day may keep the doctor away, as the saying goes, but you had better not say that anymore, either, because Big Pharma…

• Gold Explosion in a Precious Metal Mine Field

  Published 05 March 2008 | viewed 4,839 times

  "With an M3 money supply of about $12 trillion, this means that if gold rose to $46,153.00 per ounce, the entire money supply could be…

• Heads I Win, Tails I Break Even

  Published 29 February 2008 | viewed 3,840 times

  "And the borrowers just saw a chance to benefit by the bank's stupidity, and they borrowed the money on the 'heads I win, tails I…

• The Euro Only Commits Misdemeanors

  Published 27 February 2008 | viewed 6,437 times

  "'Only' 15.6% inflation in prices! It's like your stupid children getting arrested, and they brag all the way home about how they haven't ever been…

• 401-Keg Plan Matures in Britain

  Published 21 February 2008 | viewed 4,746 times

  "Then I recall that the average retirement plan in America, like a 401(k), has somewhere between $25,000 and $60,000 in it, and I wonder how…

• "Everybody Hurts" - Inflations Theme Song

  Published 19 February 2008 | viewed 6,468 times

  "The apparently salubrious result is that the money is created out of thin air, and nobody has so much as a dime taken away from…

• Prehistoric Problems With Fiat Currency

  Published 15 February 2008 | viewed 3,854 times

  "And it is made absolutely terrifying when you learn that all of the money that has been lost is, amazingly, borrowed and is still owed!…

• Trillion Dollar Bush

  Published 13 February 2008 | viewed 4,900 times

  "For me, its all about the money and how all of this spending will be accomplished by a brain-dead Federal Reserve creating the money out…

• The Fresh But Ephemeral Hell of the U.S. Economy

  Published 07 February 2008 | viewed 4,781 times

  "Not only have bank reserves not gone up in 10 years by so much as a dime, but the Treasury bonds that the Fed bought,…

• Golden Prices from Decreased Production

  Published 06 February 2008 | viewed 4,527 times

  "Ergo, the price of gold must equilibrate lower supply versus higher demand at a higher price! To those who own gold, or plan to own…

• An Indication the Economy is Lagging

  Published 29 January 2008 | viewed 6,173 times

  "And, worse, the Lagging Indicator has been outdistancing both the Leading and Coincident indicators for months and months, too, indicating that costs are going up.…