Someone was kind enough to email me another Coolidge story... Coolidge was given some award by a local organization in his home state of Vermont. The object given as the symbol of the award was a ceremonial rake, of which the presenter gave a long-winded speech, explaining that the rake was made of ...

President Coolidge was great.  Truly a different breed of politician than what you find today. Who among all of the current politicians, Democrat or Republican, would come closest in your opinion? Or put another way, if you could hand pick the next president, who would it be? The only prominent pol...

I'll occasionally read doomer with an "Oh, yeah?" attitude, but I admit I'm a sucker for the kind that comes backed with economic data that's actually related to the doom being proposed.  (A lot of the economic data are nonspecific and general, applicable to doom or boom (or toom). Here's...

AdamA wrote: Have you ever read the fantastic novel "Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream," by John Derbyshire?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312156499

Wonderful book.

I have not read it, and indeed had not even heard of it. But it just went on my "to read" list.

Interesting. A 5% cap seems like an improvement to me. But my memory could be faulty.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-78JNFMhrXAo/T_Py6CNX23I/AAAAAAAADDw/S_zLtOwxe8k/s1600/421px-Calvin_Coolidge-Garo.jpg My favorite president was born 140 yrs ago today, July 4th 1872. Some facts about President Coolidge... 1. He was the last President to balance the budget every year while in office. 2. Du...

Reminds me of the famous Jack Benny routine: A gunman goes up to Jack and says: "Your money or your life." Benny, who is well know as a cheapskate, stares into space and stalls. Gunman: "Well, what's it gonna be?" Jack: " I'm thinking, I'm thinking..." What kind of man...

It's mind boggling how batshit insane the French are.  It's one thing for some crony douchebag to come to power in Venezeuela, Zimbabwe, Moldova or some other basket case full of economically-illiterate and impoverished peons, but France...?  LOL! This is why Mr Hollande will start by cutting the r...

I just clicked on Yahoo Finance and main page carries the latest market returns on the top. This is what they are reporting... It looks like the gold bears were right and gold really is a worthless hunk of metal with no intrinsic value. But I was really surprised that oil is worthless too.      US  ...

http://seekingalpha.com/article/696911-gold-the-worst-inflation-hedge-ever The more I've been learning about gold, the more all of these types of articles slur into themselves with the same arguments... Same tired arguments, that have been debunked a thousand times over. Gold is not merely a commod...

Just as an FYI some of Rothbard's other works have been uploaded as audio books on youtube as well.  Just do a subject search.

Coffee wrote: The Collected Works of Mark Twain.

A Connecticut Yankee in Cleopatra's Court?

Did HB recommend a stash of emergency cash outside the PP? I don't recall. If he did I don't see the point. I maintain the 25% ratio right down to the reserve cash sitting in my checking account. Given the (negative) rate of return on cash lately I especially don't see the point. I don't really rem...

What's the cutoff date? How about when Jesus was born? Antiquity is generally understood to have extended far beyond the birth of Christ. Most historians date the end as the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, though I hasten to note that the Roman Empire in the East did not fall until AD 1...

Hyperinflation tends to be a collapse of the currency, but also includes a lot of things outside the currency itself.  If a hyperinflation coincided with massive confiscation from the government and/or a collapse of our system of private property, I definitely would not be wanting to hold stocks.  ...

MachineGhost wrote: Don't understand why Metro PCS would be on the list.  They offer unlimited Internet access to Blackberries and Androids for $50 a month declining to $35 if you pay on time.  AFAIK, no one else matches that.

The offer their explanation for their calls in the linked article.

Isn't Cramer a product of that world? Is he saying that he no longer believes in the system that made him rich? What he is saying is true, of course, but I don't get a sense of whether there is any personal repentance embedded in his diatribe. Cramer is certainly a trader in terms of his investing ...

Thanks! Will scope it out.

Way too many to catalogue but here are a few off the top of my head... Works and Days and Theogony- Hesiod The Illiad and Odyssey- Homer Commentaries on the Campaign in Gaul- Gaius Julius Caesar Various Works- Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides Various Works- Socrates, Plato and Aristotle History of...

OK so I just made an heroic effort to plow through at least most of the 9 pages of posts on the MMT thread here... http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/http://77.104.139.218/~gyroscop/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=9 One thing which struck me was the dearth of discussion of money from a free market perspect...

Unfortunately you live on planet earth in Universe X (why haven't they given a name to Universe X yet) and it seems to be the nature of this existence that there really is no scenario you can conceive of that will make you completely safe from all possibilities. Trust me, I've tried, but it really ...

...Nobody ever seems to have to give up anything, and nobody ever seems to lose a job, and nobody ever seems to even get prosecuted, provided they are bankers. It's like the job gives them immunity for all but insider trading, and they would probably have immunity from that, too, if we didn't have ...

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10.Avon
9.  Metro PCS
8.  The Oakland Raiders
7.  Salon.com
6.  Sazuki
5.  Pacific Sun
4.  Research in Motion (RIM)
3.  Current TV (Yeah!)
2.  Talbots
1.  American Airlines

Hi, I have a question that if I asked of any friend (except one), I would be considered paranoid, but I would like to ask it here and see if the response is the same or different. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you. Beyond which I substantively agree with the ...

This has been such a refreshing thread to read! I don't know why, maybe because it embraces such a conservative approach to money. I've had an interesting few years when it comes to investing and cash. I used to have all of my money in cash, because of market fears and indecision and a lack of time...