There seem to be stories almost every day about the pitiful condition of China’s economy, and not just in the Journal.  On Fox News last week, they reported that in one month, January, China had 5.1% inflation, and not because of the virus.  We have less than 2% a year.  In other words, like all […]

(My Birthday.  I’m 86 today) The film is “1917.”  From Tucker Carlson’s “Ship of Fools,” page 92: “On an unexceptional June morning in 1914, a second string Austrian nobleman was murdered by a Serbian terrorist in Sarajevo.  In response, Austria prepared to attack Serbia.  Russia, in turn decided to defend Serbia.  Germany supported its ally […]

Believe it or not, while George Washington was desperately fighting the Revolutionary War against England, the British Red Coats were not only better equipped, better clothed, and better fed than Washington’s rag tag starving troops, but as if that weren’t enough, the Brits were counterfeiting the Continental Dollar, and doing it so well, they were […]

I’ve written about this dozens of times over the last 43 years, and now I’ll do it again, because people are always asking us what to buy.  The lowest ratio I have seen, was 16 to 1 in 1980, which is what it has been throughout history, but in that case, I think it was […]