Tag Archives: james rickards

price anxiety

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Dave

One of the fascinating consequences of an inflationary world is the strong emotions it generates for material objects. Although it does promote competitive buying of intrinsically valuable goods, from houses to jewels, it also provokes a hatred of waste. Rather, … Continue reading →

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the hoarders: even solomon can’t count that high

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dave

The wisdom of the common is to grab the cash hoard and distribute the loot; pacify the mob. Engage in a feeding frenzy…. (see link at end)…The cash pinnacles are far higher and more numerous than the debt canyons, and … Continue reading →

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gold: sierra madre time

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Dave

Good news? Bad news? Or just another chapter in the power struggle between nations. Is this a kind of replay of 1933 when Roosevelt confiscated gold; all private gold that was in the possession of American citizens had to be … Continue reading →

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dragons and dungeons

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Dave

A clash of civilizations? Certainly an odd juxtaposition; the people of the book, the covenant on Mt. Sinai with the people outside the pale of settlement with any monotheistic religion. But, on a social and cultural level, China is a country … Continue reading →

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dawn of an old day

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

The Golden Dawn. It conjures up some weird Kabbalah and esotericism of Aleister Crowley. Actually, it’s Greece’s rebranded Nazi party dressed in the regalia of post modernism. The breakaway white trash segment projecting identity politics and clearly jabbing at the … Continue reading →

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passing the buck

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Dave

The equal sharing of misery? Hang the rich? The first idea is that inequality is an issue that all of us need to be concerned with.Or, it has always been there but slightly below the radar in our “to do” … Continue reading →

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park it on the parthenon: bonds & byzantium

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Dave

Its an object of blame for a crisis that it is not to be blamed for. This idea of north and south is an excuse for invidious comparison: the industrious, virtuous, thrifty north and their slightly darker Mediterranean neighbors to … Continue reading →

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austerity will set you free

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Dave

A Pinata Party. Picking over the carcass. Reena Virk. A girl, fourteen, caught in a deep plunge of self-esteem. She just wanted to be part of the gang. The cool club. But she became a victim of adolescent ritual. Virk … Continue reading →

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your money or your life: hoarding gold with the rat men

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dave

Currency Wars.It’s not called the gloomy science for nothing. A new book by economist James Rickards is scary stuff. Almost science fiction. It does lend oneself to Weimar like visions of the collapse of fiat currency and receiving wages on … Continue reading →