The Mogambo Guru

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• China Enters the Gold Market

  Published 10 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  There was an editorial power struggle at Mogambo News Service over whether it was Big, Big News (BBN) or if it was Big Freaking News…

• Government Employees: The Last Great Consumer Base

  Published 05 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Things in the economy are getting more and more stressful, and the company's revenues are down, precipitating the rumor around here that there are going…

• Hedonic Adjustments and the Mulligans of Monetary Policy

  Published 03 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I knew it was going to be "one of those days" when, on the very first fairway, this new guy Bob says that he thought…

• A Crude Display of How to Invest in Oil

  Published 29 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I get a lot of mail concerning my single-minded fanaticism about how gold, silver and oil are the best investments to buy when your stupid…

• Price Stability Not a Fed Priority

  Published 28 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I knew the instant that I read the article's title, "Fed Nominees Seek Economic Boost" in The Wall Street Journal, that I was probably going…

• Green Jobs from the Government Not Gonna Happen

  Published 23 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  "Green Jobs Don't Exist in a Free Market" was the headline for Tom DeWeese, writing at NewsWithViews.com, which is exactly right; the only jobs that…

• Raising Taxes to Combat Recession: The Ultimate Fiscal Folly

  Published 21 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  When I saw that Illinois cleverly solved its budget crisis by just not paying its bills, I knew that the end is near, or would…

• Complicating Economics

  Published 08 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  A column by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph, and appearing through blogs.telegraph.co.uk, recently sported the headline "Time to shut down the US Federal Reserve?" Good…

• Combating Annuities With Gold, Silver and Oil

  Published 06 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  People are always writing me and asking questions, which can usually be divided into one of two categories. The first category is the one that…

• Punctuating the Severity of Excess Money Creation

  Published 01 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I know, alas, that there is nothing that can be done to prevent unimaginable suffering and the collapse of the economy, now that the Federal…

• Fed Credit, Inflation and the Idiots in the Middle

  Published 29 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  A whole series of alarms occurred after I got the news, although I lost the source, that "food stamp usage just soared to a new…

• Euro Declines on a Sea of Bankruptcy and Paper Promises

  Published 15 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Do you ever get the feeling that you are in some kind of weird dream, where someone is holding a pillow over your face so…

• Inflation Corroded Copper Coins

  Published 08 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Junior Mogambo Ranger (JMR) Phil S. sent an article from the Globe and Mail where I learned that inflation in Canada has been so persistently…

• Re-Animating a Debt Dog

  Published 05 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I have discovered that I am never, ever too drunk not to be instantly angry at the mere mention of the neo-Keynesian halfwit morons who…

• Inflation Still a Problem, Despite 'Evidence' to the Contrary

  Published 02 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I was as surprised, as many were, to see that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) actually declined in April, dropping to 2.2% inflation from March's…

• There's Always More Money to Print

  Published 18 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In my darker moments, usually just before I go freaking berserk and start yelling and screaming about how "We're freaking doomed!" from the idiotic Obama…

• Investing in Gold: No Doubt About It

  Published 11 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I spend a lot of time worrying about how "We're freaking doomed!" and thus I spend a lot of time crying in fear and occasionally…

• US Deficit Spending: Greenspan and the Government Giveaway

  Published 06 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I have long maintained that there is, actually, nothing new under the economic sun for (checking my watch for the precisely correct time) the last…

• Lost in the Zeroes of Government Finance

  Published 04 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Henry CK Liu, writing at atimes.com, has, unlike the Securities and Exchange Commission, apparently not been spending his days downloading pornography on his computer, and…

• Rising Federal Debt Found to Cause Intestinal Alien Syndrome

  Published 29 April 2010 | viewed 0 times

  I was having breakfast with the family, and to keep from having to listen to their boring stories about their boring lives while I ate,…