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 seminal event... Soon after the 1907 panic, Congress...
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." If Bloomberg is reporting accurately, and...
Dear Readers, Much to talk about this week. Too much, I fear. I shall, therefore, endeavor to be succinct, a trait, unfortunately, that I seemed to have misplaced in my formative years. Even so, as I like to believe that humankind possesses an innate ability to better themselves, I shall buckle down...