Whiskey and Gunpowder
Whiskey & Gunpowder, covers the spectrum of the many factors that affect economics including, but not limited to politics, technology, nature, history, and anything else our writers could possibly dream up.
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- How Central Bankers Control the Gold Price
By Adrian Ash "...The gold market analyst I met for a beer one warm summer's evening in Soho, London, earlier this year took himself very seriously. The infamous report from Chevreux..."
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:41:58 GMT - Greenspan Was Never a Republican acirc;128;148; He Was an Opportunist
By Fred Sheehan "...In February 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration, Greenspan appeared before the Senate Banking Committee. He recommended the government use the federal budget surplus to pay down the national debt..."
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:39:50 GMT - Four Factors You Need to Know to Crush Market Mayhem
By Byron King "...The successive market tumults of the past months have everybody wondering: Is there a single “safe” place in the investment landscape left in which to entrust my funds?..."
Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:48:34 GMT - Buffett's Dictum amp; Your Margin of Safety
By Adrian Ash "...Understanding where you're putting your money — knowing how it will be used and knowing the likelihood of getting it back — reduces your risk, in short. If you don't understand an investment..."
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:38:48 GMT - Sinkholes and Sewage Spills Foretell a Major Crisis
By Chris Mayer "...Earlier this year, I attended Gabelli's Second Annual Water Infrastructure Conference, held in Manhattan. Of all the presenters, Thomas Rooney, president of Insituform Technologies, had the most eye-opening story..."
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:41:13 GMT - Time to Aim High?
By Mike Shedlock "...Right now, the Fed is desperately trying to encourage everyone to "aim high." It's the only way to stave off a severe consumer-led recession. But eventually, a severe recession will come..."
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:01:03 GMT - Death from the Dark Continent
By Jim Amrhein "...This story - the one about the hunters who left their guns in the truck to follow "old" spoor and almost got inyahti horns up their asses - dominated the conversation among hunters..."
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:27:07 GMT - The Future of Iraqa's Oil Production
By Dan Amoss "...Earlier this month the front page of the Wall Street Journal reports that the Bush administration is going forward with yet another attempt to solve Iraq's problems..."
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:46:57 GMT - acirc;128;156;Don't Get Joe Madacirc;128;157;
By Byron King "...It is a shame that more of the monetary policymakers in the U.S. have never played football for Joe Paterno. I'm inclined to think that they might have learned something from the guy..."
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:32:32 GMT - New to the Gold Market?
By Adrian Ash "...After all, gold doesn't pay you an income. So it can compete only with cash in the bank (provided its safe) or government bonds (provided they pay) when inflation rises faster than interest rates..."
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:07:09 GMT - Tales from the Bush-Veldt
By Jim Amrhein "...Unlike our forebears, many of whom hacked their lives out of a hostile wilderness while facing down grizzlies, wolves, cougars, snakes, gators, Indians, outlaws, cattle barons and plagues..."
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:40:11 GMT - The Edible Portfolio
By Kevin Kerr "...Now, Peak Oil may be very familiar to you as a Whiskey reader, but another peak phenomenon may not — Peak Food. Russia recently announced it may curtail wheat exports due to low global stockpiles..."
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:11:53 GMT - Maestro Memoirs
By Mike Shedlock "...The criticisms of Bush, the Republican budgets, the war over oil, and his belief in subprime loans all smack of attempts to lay the blame elsewhere for the credit debacle that is about to unfold..."
Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:17:03 GMT - Guiding the Dollar into the Abyss
By Nick Jones "...Is this a surprise? Not at all, but the inevitable implications of the coming crash of the U.S. dollar have been set in motion by the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision this Tuesday..."
Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:00:54 GMT - Fraud, Folly, and Central Banking
By Adrian Ash "...But Syrus was merely a Roman hack...and a freed slave to boot. So what would he know about collateralized loan obligations? No more or less than today's Bank of England, perhaps..."
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:17:11 GMT
