The Mogambo Guru

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• The Bank Robbing Effect of Financial Desperation

  Published 24 January 2008 | viewed 5,458 times

  "The point is that not only is bank robbing 40% more popular by 40% than last year, but the FBI used to solve 75% of…

• Avoiding Responsibility

  Published 23 January 2008 | viewed 8,347 times

  "And let's not forget that this lying lowlife loser, St. Louis Federal Reserve President William Poole, is a guy about whom Marketwatch.com reports, 'Last year,…

• The Futility of the Economic Weatherman

  Published 17 January 2008 | viewed 4,257 times

  "Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has no such qualms about shame, and said he is ready to take "substantive additional action", which the media and…

• Stealing Metaphors for Excess Money

  Published 15 January 2008 | viewed 5,390 times

  "So, if inflation in prices is not caused by a depreciating dollar or monetary policy, then Mr. Central Bank Governor Sultan Bin Nasser al-Suwaidi better…

• Incredible Inedible Ethanol

  Published 10 January 2008 | viewed 3,779 times

  "An entire third of the grain output of the American farm system will disappear from the world's food supply? On top of the terrifying increases…

• Will Work for Taxes

  Published 08 January 2008 | viewed 5,266 times

  "Instead of the town saying, 'Oh, my God! What kind of ravenous vampires have we become?' and lowering their...damned taxes, 'The town is pushing a…

• Solid Gold Silver Surge

  Published 04 January 2008 | viewed 4,172 times

  "And if you think that silver could go to its rough 15-to-1 long-term ratio to gold, then a $1,200 per ounce gold price would mean…

• Optimism in the Face of Inflation

  Published 27 December 2007 | viewed 5,219 times

  "...everyone is in apparent agreement that...like heroic armored knights on horseback saving damsels in distress by slaying dragons, the central banks must arrange irresponsible, insane…

• To Negative Infinity - And Beyond

  Published 20 December 2007 | viewed 3,574 times

  "In short, the banks loaned every additional dime of the trillions of dollars that they took in! And then more on top of that! No…

• Fictitious Beneficial Inflation

  Published 18 December 2007 | viewed 3,382 times

  "Let me get this straight; grumpy Russians, in the midst of a gloomy winter, are experiencing inflation in food prices of 1.2% in a month?…

• An Economic Law of Physics

  Published 13 December 2007 | viewed 3,961 times

  "So I am looking at this Big, Big Problem (BBP)...when I was saved by a little-known Law Of Physics: 'If at any time you find…

• Living the Nightmare of Hamiltonian Economics

  Published 11 December 2007 | viewed 4,326 times

  "We have finally overruled the Jeffersonian Republic that made America into the world power that it became, in favor of that Hamiltonian nightmare of a…

• Bulls for Bullion

  Published 06 December 2007 | viewed 7,536 times

  "If you want something else to show you that people are starting to get smart about owning gold and how this new demand is overwhelming…

• The Shock of a Thousand Trillions

  Published 04 December 2007 | viewed 12,321 times

  "So imagine my horror when I learned that there was no error! We are talking about a quadrillion freaking dollars! Instantly I knew that she…

• Who's Afraid of Low Inflation?

  Published 27 November 2007 | viewed 8,635 times

  "This is the most asinine and thoroughly ridiculous thing I have ever heard! In all my years of studying economics and rigorously defending my theories...I…

• Economic Hell to Pay

  Published 25 November 2007 | viewed 6,013 times

  "Like me getting drunk and surly, and then thinking that getting me drunker makes me more convivial. It does. For awhile. A very short while.…

• Twilight Zone Buying Power

  Published 20 November 2007 | viewed 5,310 times

  "It's a frightening Twilight Zone moment when you realize that you started with $500,000 in buying power, and you ended up with, after waiting five…

• Cash and the Commodity Craze

  Published 13 November 2007 | viewed 4,985 times

  "Look at me! I am suddenly in the trigger swap business! I get to charge you a fee to float a dollar's worth of bonds…

• More Generous Inflation Protection

  Published 08 November 2007 | viewed 5,274 times

  "But current retirees can relax, as 'The lower inflation-proofing would only apply to future entitlements. Past entitlement would continue to enjoy the more generous inflation…

• Caught Red Handed Killing the Dollar

  Published 06 November 2007 | viewed 6,731 times

  "So Mr. Mishkin joins Alan Greenspan, running around saying, 'It's not my fault! It's not my fault!', when the whole world spent all that time…