All bubbles have to break, might be a simple truism.  The housing bubble had to break, and the stock market bubble as well.  For some strange reason, the metals followed the stocks, and it was a great buying opportunity.  Has it reached the low in metals?  No one knows.  Has it reached the bottom in […]

The Canadians had a sort of prohibition of their own, but they weren’t about to lose sight of quick profits.  Lots of distilleries were conveniently built on the shores of the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.  The wise Canadians, and especially the Bronfmans, got a law passed which allowed the manufacture of whiskey, “for export […]

The mess at Las Vegas after the big basketball game (The press kept it hushed up), made it pretty obvious that all the uncivilized blacks with bad manners, and lots of dollars and gold chains must have gotten their wealth by dealing in drugs.  That’s my assumption anyway, and it made me think about prohibition.  […]

There must be something wrong with free trade, because it’s all the rage around D.C. Bush and all the D.C. Gang love free trade. It’s as if it is the milk of life and human kindness have all been placed in one wonderful jug for us all to imbibe. Free trade is so glorious and […]

We hadn’t been to Vegas in four or five years, and in some ways it has changed…not for the good.  First of all, there are no more coins being inserted and coming out of the slots.  They take bills only now, and if you wish to cash out or win, you get a printed ticket […]

(Last column till next Wednesday.  Closed half day today, all day Thursday, Friday, and President’s Day, which is Monday.  Happy birthday to me on Saturday) I’ll admit it, I was sucked into it at first, but have read enough of late to totally discard the “earth warming” nonsense, and especially the increase in carbon dioxide.  […]

Even though it is months away, it is highly amusing to watch the boob tube’s coverage of the two top Democratic candidates, namely Hillary and Obama.  As a classic example of why Bill probably can’t stand her, Hillary is in the process of cooking her own candidate goose by her unbelievable stubbornness and failure to […]

Sub-Saharan Africa is not only disgusting and hopeless, but it should be left alone so as to self-correct.  There are 18,000 reported murders per year, and millions die of AIDS or from un-reported murders.  Somalia and Durfor are simply one tribe fighting another, and a few years ago, hundreds of  Tutsies killed the other bunch, […]

Ah! That’s the magic word now, isn’t it? Everyone would love to be rich! Of course the term has taken on a totally different meaning than it had when I was a kid. I graduated from High school in 1952, (if you can imagine anyone being that old!), and if a guy had a $5 […]

You know, the “gross domestic product.”  That’s the figure that seems ever so rosy.  That’s the statistic which is supposed to show how wonderful the economy is, and this is the figure which seems to constantly go up, and which makes the professional economists predict such a glorious future.  The GDP is what tells us […]