Last week, on the subject of markets, I discussed about how supply, demand, and related things affect markets. But there is another very important fact which influences markets, prices, supplies, and yes, demands too. That is “opinions.” Opinions, make the world go ’round, and grandly influence markets. As an example, in the South Seas, women […]
A creep is seen by dozens, as he robs a convenience store, plus it is all on video. The cops show up, arrest him, and call him a “suspect.” A TV news piece shows a drunk maniac careening down the wrong side of the street and crashing into an oncoming car with a mother and […]
Think the world is running out of oil? Think again. A new book, given to me by a a client, (I have the nicest people! Thanks Beech!), titled “Black Gold Stranglehold,” is a must read by one and all. It explodes the age old theory that oil is a “fossil fuel” which was made by […]
Think the Iraq war is terrible? I do too, but look at man’s history of wars, and decide if this stuff will stop anytime soon! In the 3400 years of man’s history, there have been only 227 years of global peace. From 1500 B.C. to 1860 A.D. men had signed 8,000 treaties…with a life expectancy […]
There are ’markets’ in just about everything. By a ’market,’ I mean a place where things can be bought and sold. Grocery stores are markets, quite naturally, because all sorts of food-stuffs, drug store items, bits of hardware, etc. are sold in them. ’Markets’ in general, are what makes the world go ’round. Typically, markets […]
Bolivia just ’nationalized’ the entire nation’s gas wells, refineries, and privately owned companies. The word ’nationalize’ is a euphemism, and means “seize.” Since gold and silver are going up nicely, isn’t it logical that these tin horn dictators, who have squandered their nations wealth with fancy palaces and untold luxuries for their rulers, would run […]
Who cares? At least that’s the way I feel. Just a bunch of savages killing each other, starving each other, dying of disease, and endless copulation and reproduction. What’s new? This has been normal in Sub-Sahara Africa for centuries. Civilized nations decided to civilize, feed, educate, and be nice. What for? Nothing has changed, other […]
I’m going to kill you infidel, and I’ll get instant paradise and 72 virgins. And so it goes with the hundreds of weekly Muslim “suicide bombers” around the world. Of all the silly nuttiness I have ever heard from any religion, that has to be the most extreme example. Take any other religion, and you’ll […]
Let’s turn the clock back a couple of hundred years, OK? The Founders wrote a Constitution, which gave government permission to do certain things. It wasn’t a “Ten Commandments” type of document, which prohibited things, by saying “Thou Shalt Not ” It gave the government a few limited powers, and among them was, “To coin Money, […]
I’m sorry he’s dead, and I shot him, but you see, I’m nuts, so you can’t pull that death penalty stuff on me. I’m going to the funny farm, where I’ll be cared for, fed, recreated, and treated like the king I am…for being crazy. I’ll never have to work again, have my own private […]