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More currency predictions/ramblings
More currency predictions that I hope will NEVER come true. Our President, Zaphod is correct that I pointed out we would witness Dollar for Dollar parity with Canada. It wasn’t a lucky guess and I should have taken action to retain more of my loonies.
Next on the chopping block will be the Australian Dollar, […]
Greenspan on the Daily Show
Recently, Alan Greenspan appeared on the Daily Show. Sadly, Viacom has demanded this clip be removed from YouTube. Luckily, Norm over at onegoodmove has archived this clip for us:
Click here to watch.
Thanks Norm.
Visions of the Derranged
During the summer of 2006, Lysander Spooner (co-author on this blog) and myself spent some time exploring the FOREX market, which trades FIAT currencies the world over.
During this period, Mr. Spooner suggested that the Canadian dollar would reach parity with the US dollar before the 2008 presidential elections.
He was right:
As a matter of […]
Proud to be an American
Granted, the CIA doesn’t always have the best intelligence and their methodology for determining monetary matters isn’t very accurate as even an amateur armchair economist could tell you but make sure to scroll all the way through this one.
The AMERO
At least these AMERO coins aren’t so terrible looking. I’m remember when in the mid-1980’s, local “artists” in Europe would do their own mock ups of the “Euro” only then it was called the ECU. In a truly free market we would NOT be afraid of the AMERO, consumers and merchants could freely choose […]
This is what happens when Rove resigns!
You get nothing but crazy talk! The man should be impeached for not being an optimist!
One of my favourite Bubbles
Double, Double Toil and Trouble, we don’t have such a big fat ugly repulsive Bubble. ”
At the height of the bubble, a commonly-quoted claim was that the land beneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth more than the entire state of California.
” Now that’s a BUBBLE. For more about the Japs and their nightmarish […]
Fiat Empire
The other day, I made a mistake. I began talking about the Federal Reserve, and in doing so, went off on a tangent about a mysterious conspiracy, mish-mashed with faulty information. I got lazy, and allowed my skepticism to wane.
I would like to correct this error.
Hear me out: I know this stuff is […]
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