Bet Against the Majority. Buy Gold.

I was laid out on the couch, which I remember distinctly because my wife was yelling, ?If you?re going lay down on the couch instead of doing something around the house to help me out, at least take your damned shoes off!? and I was using the remote to idly flip through the channels on TV, hoping to catch something in the vein of happy mindlessness, maybe something in the Gilligan?s Island-Bewitched genre, so that I did not have to keep track of a complicated plot and/or a bewildering cast of multi-faceted characters. I needed this kind of mental break to take my mind off of, for one thing, the sheer horror of today?s economic situation and how we are So Freaking Doomed (SFD). Finally, I happened to catch a moment on CNBC just where Larry Kudlow was correctly making fun of Greece for saying that it will raise taxes and cut spending in an effort to get its ludicrous deficits and preposterous budget under control, and he had a deliciously snotty, supercilious, sarcastic attitude (the...