Archive for August, 2011

Author Linda Brady Traynham My first semester in college I signed up for a class in Economics because I wanted to know. At the end of the first day I dropped and took something sensible, Russian, I think. The Professor blithered away for his 50 minutes about the “gross domestic product,” and even at barely [...]

Chapter 6 “Well as long as nothing major goes wrong, we’re out tomorrow.” Gary had arrived at Lynn’s about 7PM with Eric and Lynn’s portions of the supplies he had purchased over the last two days. “We bought 15,000 ounces of gold today. Weight’s going to be a problem though. We’re talking about half a [...]

Author James The Wanderer We don’t need any more money, to lower the value of the money we already have. We don’t need any more Keynsian stimulus, QE3+, POMO, MOMO, fraud, waste and abuse disguised as economics. We don’t need any more government – we could stand with a great deal less than we have. [...]

Chapter Five Jan Kerr walked briskly out of her office to the reception area as Gary hung up. Despite the tension of the moment, the male in Gary resurfaced momentarily. “Hello Gary,” she smiled. “If you’ll come this way, I believe everything has been arranged. You are purchasing this afternoon, are you not?” Gary followed [...]

Life in These United States (with apologies to Readers Digest) Cell Phones, laptops, video games, televisions. All hardware devices that enable “entertainment”. Until that entertainment becomes a felony. And yet, the response is “I wasn’t completely naked in that picture”, and, “it wasn’t that bad!” By whose standards? By the standard of popular culture? Or [...]

Chapter Four Gary took a seat in the reception area to draw up his charts for Menach. While 400-ounce bars were readily available he wanted smaller sizes, despite the premium he would pay for them. His best guess was that one ounce of gold would ultimately purchase goods currently valued at $16,000-$32,000. If one had [...]

Author Tony De Maio I had an interesting revelation the other day. I sent one of my liberal friends some humorous bumper stickers concerning the present administration. She fired back a rather hostile e-mail informing me that she was an Obama supporter, and I knew it. I wrote back and told her that I used [...]

Chapter Three Wednesday February 15th. Day Two; The 6 AM news lacked many of the specifics Gary might have preferred but the talking heads did confirm at breathless and inane length that the market crash had accelerated around the world as he slept. That was all that he really needed to know. He kept one [...]