03/31/2006 - Extraordinary Popular Headlines
by Bill Bonner "'In America,' said Gore Vidal, 'half the population doesn't read the paper. Clearly, they are the intelligent half.'"
03/30/2006 - The Real Bird Flu Danger
by Mark Tier "The H5 strain of viruses is just one of sixteen different virus groups birds carry around - rather like a flying "virus soup." As birds' immune systems are adapted to these viruses, they rarely get sick. This is about to change." 03/29/2006 - Trouble Ahead For Junior Uranium?
by Doug Casey "I'm concerned about the ever-growing number of junior uranium companies. Over the past two years, the number of companies looking for uranium has jumped over 700%. At last count, there are now about 145 such explorers." 03/28/2006 - Good Morning, Vietnam
by Chris Mayer "The Vietnamese economy has quietly become one of the fastest growing in the world, approaching the scorching pace of India and China. It's also become a magnet for foreign capital."
03/27/2006 - Full Faith and Credit!
by The Mogambo Guru "Ben Bernanke, chairman of the horrid U.S. Federal Reserve, has announced that the sheer reputation of the Federal Reserve will be enough to keep interest rates lower than they otherwise would be."
03/24/2006 - Worst Trade of the Decade
by Bill Bonner "When Britain's brightest and best got together in the late '90s to plot monetary policy, every sensible thought seems to have fled straight out of their heads."
03/23/2006 - If You Build It - Will They Come?
by James Howard Kunstler "It makes my head hurt to imagine the coming carnage on the real estate scene here. Nationwide, the latest figures are not reassuring. Even hot markets cool off when evil economic winds blow."
03/22/2006 - Suburbistan: Here Comes the Fiscal Firestorm
by Dan Denning "This year could be the year where we see a silent tipping point in American politics. It will be a point of no return, where interest rates rise as America's borrowing costs no longer seem so easily manageable."
03/21/2006 - Cant' Go Home Again
by Justice Litle "What if gold were to climb to new highs, breaking the $1,000-an-ounce barrier, and never return from whence it came? With apologies to Thomas Wolfe, what if the bankers can't go home again?"
03/20/2006 - Mining: Back With A Vengeance
by The Mogambo Guru "The 74th annual Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention at the Toronto Metro Centre drew 'Fourteen thousand people, people! Seven hundred exhibitors. Mining is indeed back!'
03/19/2006 - The Enron Guide to Economic Management
by Kate Incontrera "After a nice stretch of relative dollar strength, this past week saw the greenback's biggest weekly loss in six weeks."
03/17/2006 - All About Evo
by Bill Bonner "Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia in December 2005. He won a landslide victory at the polls, proving once again that voters too get what they deserve, not what they expect."
03/16/2006 - Going Off-Grid
by S.R. Nunnally "In 1997, Denmark held a national competition. The selected winner would be home to a one-of-a-kind experiment: The winner would be expected to convert all its energy supply to 100% renewable energy within 10 years."
03/15/2006 - A Congressional Tantrum
by John Mauldin "Last week, an updated version of Smoot and Hawley's Congress put together a veto-proof gaggle to stop the United Arab Emirates from buying a British port management company that ran six of our nation's ports."
03/14/2006 - Got Demographics?
by Harry S. Dent "As we get closer to the demographic turning point, you need to get conservative. You'll need to start 'acting Japanese.'"
03/13/2006 - The Federal Reserve and the Nebulon Five Galaxy
by The Mogambo Guru "The vulgar phrase 'act Fed' has replaced the long-time favorite expression, 'He's got his grumkin up his gorfhole."
03/12/2006 - Mutiny on the Hill
by Kate Incontrera"Duncan Hunter introduced a bill barring not only the DP World deal - but ALL foreign ownership or management of "critical infrastructure" such as ports."
03/10/2006 - Bernanke's Big Test
by Bill Bonner "Bernanke's test is coming. He, too, will have his opportunity to blunder. Will the stock market crash? We don't know, but if it does, it has a lot more room to fall than it did in 1987."
03/09/2006 - Sugar High
by Jim Rogers "With world sugar prices at 85 percent or so below their all-time high, the chances of moving higher are strong."
03/08/2006 - The Detroit of Europe
by Steve Forbes "The formerly communist state of Slovakia badly needed to simplify its overly complicated tax code to free itself from the stagnation and corruption of its formerly state-controlled economy…"
03/07/2006 - Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Bill Bonner "We always try to get our day off on the right foot by reading Friedman's column before breakfast. There is something so gloriously naïve and clumsy in the man's pensée, it never fails to brighten our mornings."
03/06/2006 - The Bernanke Agreement
by The Mogambo Guru "I leap to my feet and shout, 'Hooray! Hooray for Ben Bernanke!' and then I am shocked at hearing myself say it! I feel dizzy at the experience!"
03/04/2006 - Where Have All the Buyers Gone?
by Kate Incontrera"What gives? It seems like just yesterday, people were willing to sign their life away for a McMansion. Why is there is now more inventory than buyers, when for the past four years, homes have been selling like hotcakes?"
03/03/2006 - Heroes of the Revolution, Part II
by Bill Bonner "What intrigues us most is Che's role as head of the Central Bank of Cuba. Of course, we know little about his actual performance as a central banker. We can merely guess from the results that no one ever did the job worse."
03/02/2006 - Fuel - The Catalyst
by Puru Saxena "Every nation depends on oil and if payment for it can only be made in U.S. dollars, it creates artificial demand for the American currency. In my opinion, this is one of the main reasons why the U.S. dollar has not yet collapsed."
03/01/2006 - Radioactive Profits
by Kevin Kerr "The Uranium market is one that is like a wild roller coaster, and many of the equities associated with it can make investors queasy from the ride."
02/28/2006 - America's Glorious Empire of Debt
by Bill Bonner "Americans are proud of their empire - and should be. Without it, they could never have gotten so far in debt."
02/27/2006 - The Cab-Driving Economist
by The Mogambo Guru "It could be that that consumers are spending by cutting back on other things…taxi drivers, by dint of their conversing with so many passengers in their cabs, have a good idea of what is really happening."
02/25/2006 - Beggars Can't Be Choosers
by Kate Incontrera "The pundits in Washington are still pushing these protectionist measures, doing their best to squash the deal with Dubai and trying to stop trade with China by imposing high tariffs or forcing a Chinese currency revaluation."
02/24/2006 - Heroes of the Revolution
by Bill Bonner "We read in the paper that Evo Morales, the new president of Bolivia, said he was 'following in the footsteps of Che Guevara.' Either the fellow has a sense of humor, or he is as stone stupid as Che himself."
02/23/2006 - The End Of Dollar Hegemony, Part II
by Hon. Ron Paul of Texas "It is an unbelievable benefit to us to import valuable goods and export depreciating dollars. The exporting countries have become addicted to our purchases for their economic growth."
02/22/2006 - The End Of Dollar Hegemony, Part I
by Hon. Ron Paul of Texas "During the 1970s the dollar nearly collapsed, as oil prices surged and gold skyrocketed to $800 an ounce. By 1979 interest rates of 21% were required to rescue the system."
02/21/2006 - Not Your Garden-Variety Economy
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer "The U.S. economy's downturn in 2001 had no relationship or similarity whatsoever to the customary 'garden-variety' cycle. Credit growth, far from slowing down, accelerated as never before."
02/20/2006 - Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
by The Mogambo Guru "More and more investors are becoming distressed in today's unstable and uncertain economy. However, there is a silver (no pun intended) lining in all of this. The Mogambo Guru explores…"
02/18/2006 - Ignorance is Bliss
by Kate Incontrera"Ben Bernanke stepped up to the plate as new Fed chairman this week, attempting to put out fires and soothe fears…He told everyone exactly what they wanted to hear…but that doesn't make it the truth."
02/17/2006 - Wars of Terror
by Bill Bonner "Here at The Daily Reckoning, we are opposed to war, in the sense that we are opposed to election fraud or stomach gas. But we take it for granted that war happens from time to time"
02/16/2006 - Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
by Justice Litle "Iran controls the critical Strait of Hormuz, a geographical oil chokepoint through which 40% of the world's oil travels in any given year."
02/15/2006 - Unfavorable Balanaces
by Hans Sennholz "The financial world, apparently, is ignoring the trade deficits and the rapidly rising American indebtedness."
02/14/2006 - The Syriana Syndrome
by James Kunstler "Despite the claims of those who believe that the Earth has a creamy nougat center of oil, the supply of this critical resource is actually finite."
02/13/2006 - A Golden Imagination
by The Mogambo Guru "In case you want to test your imagination, Sprott Asset Management says that they can easily imagine $80,000 per ounce. And now, I am imagining it and having pleasant little daydreams about it, too."
02/11/2006 - The Debt Made Me Do It
by Kate Incontrera"We hate to be the ones to break the news…but U.S. federal debt is at $8.2 trillion - and growing every second. That leaves each and every American's portion of the federal debt at over $27,000."
02/10/2006 - Ivan's War
by Bill Bonner "While the victims in today's essay are the Soviets, the protagonists…of our theme include us all. We may not be communists, or Russians, or soldiers, but we stand on two legs along with them, and breathe the same air."
02/09/2006 - Life During Wartime
by Dan Denning "America continues to consume more than it produces. Debt has driven a boom in American consumption right alongside a war that doesn't seem to interrupt the daily life of many Americans."
02/08/2006 - The Spirit of Reform
by Steve Forbes "The flat tax is a reform of our federal income tax system. It does not affect, for example, state and local taxes. But, contrary to what some may fear, it will generate increased government revenue."
02/07/2006 - Peak Oil and the Sorry State of the Union
by Byron King "President Bush said, 'America is addicted to oil,' and set a goal of replacing 75 percent of the nation's Mideast oil imports by 2025 with ethanol and other energy sources. Who is he kidding?"
02/06/2006 - Mister, Can You Loan Me A Buck?
by The Mogambo Guru "An economy requires that people have to be out spending money, making money, borrowing money, investing money, and loaning money, all of which it takes to make an economy go. And suddenly, we are 'None Of The Above.'"
02/03/2006 - Marx's Revenge
by Bill Bonner "The American economy may or may not be 'growing' in 2006. But if traditional, time-tested theories about how wealth and poverty are correct, thank God it is not growing more."
02/02/2006 - All The President's Power, Part II
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. "Both liberals and at least some conservatives must share the blame for contributing to an ideological climate of which the inevitable outcome is the unrestrained executive under which our Republic now groans."
02/01/2006 - All The President's Power, Part I
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. "The presidency of George W. Bush is a bizarre aberration in the history of the presidency and more or less sui generis. I have no objection to those who describe the Bush presidency as utterly disastrous."
01/31/2006 - History Points to Higher Rates
by Puru Saxena "In the current environment, as the energy shortages become more evident, consumer price levels and commodities are going to rise significantly."
01/30/2006 - A Comedy of the Absurd
by The Mogambo Guru "Any price inflation is worrisome, and when price inflation is over 3%, it is, historically, supposed to have central bankers and governments jumping out of windows in panic, and citizens rioting in the streets." 01/28/2006 - Catching-Up With Commodities
by Kate Incontrera "It's been an interesting few weeks in the natural resource markets…sugar hit a 24-year high…crude oil prices are still on the rise…and natural gas demand is, much to everyone's surprise, down…" 01/26/2006 - Take It Away, Maestro
by Bill Bonner "If anyone could be held directly and immediately responsible for the record level of America's foreign and domestic debts, it was Alan Greenspan." 01/25/2006 - The Habitual Deceptions Of The Political Class
by Vedran Vuk "Politicians do not arise through free market competition. Politicians, inherently, must influence and coerce their way to the top." 01/24/2006 - Strong-Arming the Seesaw
by Ken Kerr "Seesawing oil prices have impacted global profits, but it's surprising that among the Baltic countries, Estonia fared better than most." 01/23/2006 - Fearful Effects of Inflation
by The Mogambo Guru "The money supply is going up faster than the growth in the economy, which means that prices will increase." 01/20/2006 - I, Greenspan
by Bill Bonner A farewell to Greenspan: his life, his policies, his infamous "Greenspan speak." 01/19/2006 - January Is A Month For Fools
by James Boric "Articles are written about absurd phenomena like the 'January Effect' - which is about as useful to investors as a six-pack of O'Doul's is to an alcoholic." 01/18/2006 - Nightmare on Main Street
by Steve Forbes "Given America's history of tax-o-phobia, how in the world did we end up with what we have today: our horrifically heavy, appallingly complex, corruption-inducing tax code?" 01/17/2006 - Recession Ahead?
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer "Mr. Greenspan has argued that the yield curve no longer plays the same crucial role for the economy as in the past, we think that under these conditions it matters more than ever." 01/16/2006 - The Oil Plans of Iran
by The Mogambo Guru "Instead of an American-controlled oil market and American friends and insiders getting rich making their slimy little backroom deals, now it will be an Iran-controlled oil market." 01/13/2006 - Altered State of the Union
by Bill Bonner "The American empire, circa 2006, is a grotesque and remarkable thing." 01/12/2006 - Hitting the Skids
by Gary Shilling "Setting aside unknown elements like major terrorist attacks, natural disasters or a bird flu pandemic, I believe six phenomena are shaping the investment climate this year." 01/11/2006 - It's All About Timing
by Doug Casey "Over time, some foreign countries will do better than the United States. And that it's only common sense, considering the fate of the dollar, to keep a close eye on commodities in general and precious metals in particular." 01/10/2006 - You've Been Fooled
by Richard Miniter "But hasn't the risk from terrorism risen in the wake of September 11? Not according to any valid statistical measure. " 01/09/2006 - Got Gold?
by The Mogambo Guru "The Mogambo smiles as he says, 'Harken to me, my darling dudes and dudettes. Gold! Got gold? Get gold!'" 01/06/2006 - Death Chants, Breakdowns, and Forecasts for 2006
by Bill Bonner "In yesterday's issue, Bill promised to give his predictions for the year ahead in today's essay - but we must warn you: What follows is more of a churlish lament than a real forecast. Read on…" 01/05/2006 - A Magic Formula
by Chris Mayer "If there were only a simple and reliable way to find great stocks, a combination to look for or a magic formula of some kind…something the average investor can use and depend on." 01/04/2006 - Deficits Do Matter
by Dr. Marc Faber "When the trade deficit is linked to a sharp loss of competitiveness, over consumption and relates principally to the importation of consumer goods, I doubt that such a deficit will lead to a rising standard of living." 01/03/2006 - Great Expectations
by Dan Denning "We mentioned in yesterday's issue that this week is packed with data that could be very telling about the health of the nation's economy in 2006. Dan Denning explains what we should really be examining…" 01/02/2006 - Under Gold's Spell
by The Mogambo Guru "For those of you shuffling in to work today, head still ringing from the New Year's festivities, thinking that the Mogambo would take it easy on you today and talk about his resolutions for 2006, think again…" | 
