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The Room 4/22/08

Written: April 18 2008 Dear Readers, I am running quite late this sunny New England morning. But I have a good excuse: my wife has left me. Well, it's not all that dramatic... it is just that she has hived off for Europe for a ten-day gallivant with...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 11:29 AM by David Galland

Filed under: Interest Rates, Presidential Race, Politics, Coal, Inflation, Gold, Biofuels, Food Prices

The Room 4/14/08

Written: April 11, 2008 Dear Readers, No question about it, we humans like to keep things simple. And no wonder; if the world is anything, it is chaotic. And so we look for our philosophy in un-taxing nuggets, the sort, perhaps, that might grace the back...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 2:05 PM by David Galland

Filed under: Economy, Inflation, Dollar, China, Housing Crisis, Biofuels, Olympics, Food Prices, World Bank, Karl Marx, Internet

The Room 4/7/08

Dear Readers, This week finds me writing from Room 2218 of the infamous Jekyll Island Club. The hotel's adjective comes from a secret meeting held here in 1910 involving some of America's most powerful men. Here's an official history of that...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 11:03 AM by David Galland

Filed under: Natural Gas, Inflation, Gold, China, Housing Crisis, The Fed

The Room 3/31/08

Dear Reader , I am writing to you in the pre-dawn from a soft chair in a Starbucks in Scottsdale, a vast improvement over the small desk in the cluttered toy room that I usually write you from on Fridays. 16 inches from my left hand is a "vente"...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 3:08 PM by David Galland

Filed under: Health Care, Housing Bubble, Credit Crisis, Subprime Loans, Inflation, Housing Crisis

The Room 3/24/08

Dear Reader , It used to be of no little pride in the small New England town where Casey Research is headquartered that school went forward, no matter the weather. Hail, 8-foot-high snow drifts, ice rain and, should they have occurred hereabouts (which...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 2:52 PM by David Galland

Filed under: Economy, Credit Crisis, Subprime Loans, Inflation, Recession, Dollar, Depression, Housing Crisis

The Room 3/17/08

Dear Reader , You don't need me to tell you, but the $1,000 mark is the latest to fall beneath gold's mighty rise. Even so, as a benchmark, the number $1,000 is meaningless. It represents no new high in the inflation-adjusted prices that count...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 4:33 PM by David Galland

Filed under: Economy, Credit Crisis, Inflation, Gold, Recession, Dollar

The Room 3/10/08

Dear Fellow Global Adventurers , This past week I came across worthy comments from Dr. Marc Faber of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report in which he comments that, by continuing to cut interest rates, Bernanke will eventually "destroy the U.S. dollar...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 11:16 AM by David Galland

Filed under: Economy, Natural Gas, Interest Rates, International Speculator, Inflation, Government, Gold, China

The Room 3/3/08

Dear Readers, It's getting to the point where even the most determined optimist is having a hard time finding a good reason to roll out of bed. Among just the smattering of news that crossed the lens this week... Producer prices rose 7.4 percent in...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 11:52 AM by David Galland

Filed under: Economy, Interest Rates, Credit Crisis, commodities, Inflation, Oil, Gold, Visa, Ben Bernanke, Recession, Dollar

The Room 2/18/08

Dear Reader, Foolishly, I now realize, I closed last week's column by announcing that I would endeavor to write today's entire missive without a single mention of... okay, well, just this once... government. Some readers have suggested that I...

Published Mon, Feb 02 2008 8:00 AM by David Galland

Filed under: Economy, Credit Crisis, Politics, commodities, Coal, Inflation

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