(They never come true) The Parts of the song are so true: “You made me promises, promises, knowing I would believe.  Promises, promises, you knew you’d never keep.”  A classic promise example is the U.S. Dollar, whose silver content as established by the U.S. Treasury, in 1785, is 375.64 grains of pure silver.  Since there […]

The latest absurdity out of the swamp, unfortunately seems to come from Trump.  By the time you read this, a couple of days will have passed of the glorious ‘week of reduced violence,’ which will signal part one of a peace treaty with Afghanistan.  It reminds me of a possible 30 year old criminal drunk […]

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 […]

Actually, the current Corona virus, which has killed as of this writing, 27, with many hundreds ill, originated in China, along with countless other diseases and ills.  China has lost millions of pigs and hogs due to disease, which has killed half of Chinese pigs.  In 2013, 15,000 dead pigs were floating down the Huangpu […]

Actually, Martin Luther King Day, is, as far as I know, the only federal holiday not concerned with a president or a holiday such as Thanksgiving or the 4th of July.  I resent that, as do a lot of other people, even such as my bank, The Bank of Colorado, which is open today, January […]

A major article in January 2nd Journal is headlined just that.  “Japan’s Lost 30 Years Give Pause to Those Looking at The U.S.”  A picture showing dejected Japanese is sad, and an accompanying graph shows  the American S & P going up at a 45 degree angle while the Nikkei 225, stays in a straight […]

I don’t make predictions, as I have written over and over again, but a six column, half page piece in the Journal (Wall Street) last week, complete with graphs, is headlined “GOLD IS HEADED FOR ITS BEST YEAR SINCE 2010.”  Since Qassem Soleimani was assassinated Friday morning, and since gold has gone up about $75 […]