The Mogambo Guru

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• Investing in Gold Will Save Your Butt

  Published 03 November 2010 | viewed 0 times

  When I got back to the office, the place was abuzz, all stemming from how my boss wanted to "see me" as soon as I…

• Loss of Purchasing Power: The True Inflation-Target Bullseye

  Published 28 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  When it comes time to put the current crop of economic blowhards and lunatics on trial for the disaster their insanely-bad advice caused, this quote…

• Pummeled by the Strong Arm of the Financial Ruin

  Published 26 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Casey's Gold & Resource Summit reports that "Casey Research's own resident economic genius Bud Conrad" is the "nonpareil whirling dervish of data points," which is…

• An Economic Standoff to Save the Neighborhood

  Published 22 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I was in the living room, happily reading as the kids quietly watched a show on TV that was even more insipid than their usual…

• Doubling the Value of Silver

  Published 20 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  With gold and silver going up in price like they are, I spend a lot of time secluded in the Big Mogambo Bunker (BMB), greedily…

• Why 'Credible Programs' at the Fed are Anything But

  Published 14 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  My stomach was hurting, so I decided to take a little time off and soothe the old midsection with a few medicinal brews and a…

• Bond Investors Are People Too

  Published 13 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Last week, bond prices were so high that a two-year government note yielded a miniscule 0.43%. To get more than one percent interest, you have…

• The Mogambo Golden-Real Estate Project

  Published 08 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Japan has taken an interesting approach to preventing people from accumulating so much debt that they default; The Wall Street Journal reports that Japan has…

• Connecting the Dots of Chinese Gold and Currency Reserves

  Published 05 October 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Bill Bonner here at The Daily Reckoning is one of those guys who, for some reason, figures that we (represented, apparently, by me) are smart…

• The Comedic Value of Naked-Short Paper Gold

  Published 30 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I tend to get all obsessed with my own problems, mostly about how I never have enough money to do any of the things I…

• The Cost of Fed Incompetence

  Published 28 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I have grown old yelling at my neighbors and family members to buy gold, silver and oil, to little-to-no avail, and I can see that…

• Leveraging Junk Debt Off the Charts

  Published 24 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The massive door of the Mogambo Bug-Out Bunker (MBOB) was locked, and I was taking a little break, leisurely looking through the periscope/range finder/fire-control module,…

• Inflationary Understatement

  Published 21 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The Market Oracle newsletter jumps into the inflation-deflation debate, and says, "Debt deleveraging deflation completely ignores the fact that we are NOT living in the…

• The Governmental Money-Vacuum

  Published 17 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  The drunker I get, the more it seems to me that you slave away at your stupid job every day of your stupid life, hating…

• Dueling Currencies

  Published 14 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  My daughter, for some reason, decided that breakfast is the best time of day to tell me that she needs me to give her a…

• Coded Messages to Buy More Gold

  Published 07 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Bloomberg.com had the headline "Bank of Korea 'Under Pressure' to Boost Gold Holdings, Shinhan's Oh Says," which was perfectly understandable, although I have no idea…

• Signs of an Evil Economy

  Published 03 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I am standing on the corner of the street, doing my duty to "give back" to society, in this case by yelling at morons passing…

• Rounding Up the Culprits of Rising Prices

  Published 31 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  From Bloomberg.com we get the bad news that "Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said inflation is likely to exceed the UK government's upper 3%…

• Inflation Follows the Stimulus Boom

  Published 25 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital notes that the Federal Reserve, and the idiots like Paul Krugman who genuflect at the altar of Keynes, is…

• The Overvalued Part of a Market Cycle

  Published 17 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I had just gotten home from arguing with the in-laws about how they were idiots for not buying gold instead of those stupid stocks and…