Thursday Countries never recover from a socialism that is allowed to run its course, i.e., until it has squandered the capital accumulated in the prior period. Compounding this problem is that the human capital also vanishes – for sunnier (saner) climes. The gene pool is weakened as only the old, apathetic and party apparatchiks are left. Lacking capital, intellect and … [Read more...]
Gold – The Solution
Sunday My interest in Gold goes back to the 1976 when I panned in the Putumayo Province of Colombia. It drifted from my mind until around 1980 when I again began to accumulate Gold. Then the price crashed and I lost interest again. In 2006 (2007?) I attended a seminar by Professor Antal E. Fekete in Szombathely, Hungary. It was a startling experience and opened up a … [Read more...]
A Gold Cassandra
Tuesday My embryonic entry into the Gold sphere was in the Putumayo Province in Columbia back in 1976. I was panning for Gold. Around 1978, I noticed that the ‘price of Gold’ had begun to rise. In 1981, when currencies found strength again, I filed the subject away and went on with my life. My interest was piqued again in early 2000. I devoured huge amounts of … [Read more...]
The Future of Christianity
A Comment on Fred Reed’s ‘The Place of Christianity in History: A View from Without’ Mr Reed is one of my favourite authors, and not just because he is a fellow cigar smoker, or because his cigar has the scruffy look of the wonderful cigars that I used to hand-roll in Colombia, but because he is a good thinker and writer. That said, I think that in this instance it is most … [Read more...]