Preparedness
Operation Phoenix Chapter 5
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Chapter 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 [...]
Operation Phoenix Chapter 4
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011Chapter 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 [...]
Define “Default”
Sunday, July 10th, 2011Author Linda Brady Traynham Weekends make me nervous, what with stock markets open elsewhere and politicians conniving behind closed doors. The “crisis” over the debt “ceiling” has all the reality of a Punch and Judy show and stopped being amusing a long time ago. Everyone is posturing, nobody is serious, both sides will claim victory [...]
Fahrenheit 81
Monday, June 20th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham Back in the Carter years a fairly affluent friend said, “I wouldn’t mind how big the electricity bills were if the house were even comfortable.” The friends here last week commented that they have the thermostat on 78 during the day and 81 at night, and I felt faint. Quite literally when [...]
The Old Rooster’s Dead
Monday, May 30th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham Some lessons hurt every time we get them, particularly those we know intellectually could happen but don’t really expect to happen to US…or…at least not yet. A large, feral dog struck last night. Even if the tracks hadn’t told us where he came from we would have known because country people don’t [...]
Off Shore Account
Friday, April 29th, 2011|| Tony DeMaio || Folks, As most of you know, I have a bit of doubt about the economic (and political) future of this country. I have suggested “solutions” or “precautions” ranging from hiding in the hills of Montana, emigrating to another country, buying foreign stocks, buying foreign currency, buying commodities/precious metals, opening a foreign [...]
Prestidigitation
Friday, April 29th, 2011|| Mike Rough || Pay no attention to Bernanke at the press conference. Look! behold the bastard wonder beget by the unholy union of Adobe Photoshop and blatant incompetence! A birth certificate sure to inflame the populace. In short if the dog’s a waggin’ don’t bother naggin about the man behind the curtain. And so [...]
How’s Business
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011|| Steve Foste || Many of my customers ask me daily, how is business, my comment, a little confused, the numbers are good, business is ok, but something in missing, it just doesn’t strike me as being sustainable. Honestly we are busy, but again we are not busy. In the past it was daily balls [...]
Kinetic Energy
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Linda Brady Traynham | I really wanted to call this one “The Trebuchet and Kinetic Energy,” but I wasn’t certain even real fans would have opened a thing like that, although that IS where we’re going to start. A tray-boo-SHAY is a superior form of catapult which does not involve whacking off long, thick golden [...]
China’s Golden Dragon Vs. US Paper Tiger
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011Mike Rough : There is a clear trend developing for Chinese investment in gold as a monetary asset, and China is buying so much gold for investment purposes that it is creating shortages of physical bullion around the world. Investors in China have always shown a lack of faith and trust paper investments as a [...]