Tag Archives: federal reserve

Why U.S. Treasuries are No Longer the Safest Investment in the World

The world’s a humbling place.  It’ll change right before your very eyes and you don’t even know it…until it’s too late.  Where markets are concerned this can be an expensive and chastening lesson. Not long ago it was common knowledge … Continue reading

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Controlling Economic Diarrhea with Adhesive Tape

Some people never learn.  Give a klutz a hammer and he’ll smash his thumb every time. Give a boozehound a bottle of Strawberry Boone’s Farm and he’ll guzzle it down en route to get another and another…until it practically kills … Continue reading

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Hell Bent on Destroying the Currency

We’re in San Francisco today taking a break from our daily labors to ride cable cars up and down Powell Street and traverse through the city’s sundried districts, like Chinatown, North Beach and Fisherman’s Warf, with our wife and son. … Continue reading

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We Are All Screwed

Travels have taken us to Pueblo, Colorado.  Until a week ago we’d never heard of the place. Yet here we are, observing life outside the Los Angeles Basin, and writing to you from the banks of the Arkansas River. If … Continue reading

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