No Secret to Gold Investing. Just Accumulate.

Since I am known as something of a gold bug, a lot of people write to me about gold, but since I am a paranoid lunatic, I don't read their letters, mostly because I now call myself Marvelous Macho Grande (MMG), figuring that an established alias could potentially come in handy when the prices of gold, silver and oil shoot higher and higher as inflation in consumer prices starts going parabolic as a result of the despicable Federal Reserve creating so, so, so much money, especially so that the despicable federal government can borrow and spend that selfsame so, so, so much money.

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Corporate-Muni Bond Yield Gap: The Sign of Another Crisis?

The jillions of dollars in municipal bonds issued by cities and states over the last half century are getting a lot of attention lately, mostly because a lot of people own municipal bonds, either directly or indirectly, and now cities and states seem to be sliding, sliding, sliding towards an obvious and unavoidable default, like everyone else, sort of like how my wife noticed my decades-long slide into lazy worthlessness and irritability, reducing my value as a husband and father to zero, thus wiping out all her stupid “investment� in me.

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US Money Supply Prompts a Hard Goodbye

The way that federal taxes are going up next year by huge percentages is Very Interesting News (VIN) for gold-bugs like me, and probably the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution, too, if they were still alive, as we all think that gold-as-money is the only “way to go� because it absolutely precludes rapid increases in the supply of money, which is important because increases in the money supply cause increases in prices, which is important if you think that paying $1,000 for a loaf of bread is important or if milk costs $2,000 per gallon, and pretty soon the rest of the world is going to wake up to that fact, too.

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A “Slightly Exaggerated� $15.8 Billion Accounting Error

Alan Abelson, in his column in Barron's, notes that the $9.1 billion drop in Consumer Installment Debt in May makes it four months in-a-row that this debt balance went down, and that “Credit card use (so-called revolving debt) shrank by $7.4 billion, extending its string of monthly declines to 20.� Yikes!

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The Money Supply Conspiracy

Marin Katusa is Chief Energy Strategist for Casey Research, which probably made it easier for him to get his stuff into Casey's Daily Dispatch, whereas no matter what I write, they always say to me, “This is crap! Stop sending us your Stupid Mogambo Crap (SMC)! It's crap! It's always crap!�

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Buying Gold, Silver and Oil: The Ultimate No-Brainer

In my monthly report to Glabbnarxx, the new despotic Overlord for this sector of the galaxy (and who, I heard, is supposed to be a real pinhead of a dork), I included the news that as a result of oceans of money being created and spent, you would think that none of the sentient inhabitants of this planet called Earth would buy bonds to receive the paltry, miserable, fixed coupon stream from the already-overpriced bonds because of the horrifying, unstoppable inflation in consumer prices that will soon, and surely, result from all the insane amounts of money being created by the Federal Reserve, which was then borrowed and spent by the federal government, and thus the price of bonds will soon fall in response to such inflation in prices, handing a huge capital loss to any moron who bought bonds at today's extremely high, ludicrously high, insanely high prices (and thus interest rates at such extreme, ludicrous, insane lows).

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Combating Annuities With Gold, Silver and Oil

People are always writing me and asking questions, which can usually be divided into one of two categories. The first category is the one that I call “Is there something wrong with you that you sound/look/appear so stupid/ugly/weird?� (Answer: “Probably�), and the other, smaller category is the one I call “Other.�

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The Correlation Between Morons and Government Debt

DWS Funds is a “member of Deutsche Bank Group,� which I assume because it says so right on the cover of DWS Active magazine, an outfit which has somehow, without me actually noticing, over the years taken over some holdings of mine, so that now I sit, locked in a bunker and peering out at a hostile world through a periscope, wondering how a bunch of foreigners, who almost certainly hate my guts, in this case Germans, took possession of my American mutual fund, and thus took possession of my money, probably like somebody took possession of the Federal Reserve and thus took possession of America's money, in which case we know exactly who it was, and it was Alan Greenspan and then Ben Bernanke, two villains who chaired the Federal Reserve and whose names will live in infamy because of the inflationary terrors unleashed by their irresponsible creations of more and more money, even more treacherous so than the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, which gave rise to that “live in infamy� phrase, as these are The Guys who destroyed the buying power of the dollar and destroyed the USA.

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Mysterious Money Supply Discrepancies

Being an inveterate conspiracy theorist who is absolutely convinced that the government is full of morons, lunatics and traitors, not to mention legions of hired goons with badges, and who have, I maintain, been hovering above my house in an invisible helicopter to shoot thought-control rays into my brain all the time (zzzt!) so that now all I can hear is voices in my head urging me to “Burn! Burn everything!”

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