“The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny.” John C. Danforth Good morning and welcome back to Bygone Relics. I’m C Thomas Printer and I want to apologize to you, the viewer, the listener, and the reader. I realize I have created the most boring program in America by talking about bonds and …
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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” Voltaire Hang on Voltaire… You mean to tell us if we want something that we must earn it ourselves or if it is meant to be it is up to me? What unusual propaganda… Welcome …
Good morning, and welcome back to Bygone Relics. I’m C Thomas Printer and I am flying solo this morning. The CPTC has lost Austerity Jones back to the business world on a full-time basis. I will miss her and I will try to have her stop in from time to time to say hello. I …
“Everything ends badly otherwise it wouldn’t end.” Brian Flanagan Good morning I’m Austerity Jones and welcome back to Bygone Relics. I am here with C Thomas Printer who is deathly afraid of snakes. Thank you and good morning Austerity. That is correct, but I’m not sure we needed to send this out to the world …
At this week’s Bygone Relics show we tried to be optimistic. Do you think we succeeded in doing so? Let me first tell you a story about a dumpy looking little Mexican boy that grew up to launch Fernando mania: Fernando Valenzuela didn’t look like an athlete, he had a weird wind up, before throwing …
At this week’s Bygone Relics show: The markets do continue their rally! So, we will never have a bad day? C Thomas responds with data. Vacation is over and so for the last two weeks we have discussed Lionel Messi and his suffering and his ability to overcome suffering. Why you might ask? Sometimes you …
The US is welcoming Messi. It is a good time to remember a bit of his story. In the last piece, we left off talking about how Messi was always in the huge shadow of Diego Maradona in the soccer crazed minds of Argentina and when Messi had again lost in a Copa, this time …
Sometimes the smallest men cast the largest shadows. Diego Maradona was a mere 5’5” yet his shadow overwhelmed Lionel Messi for most of Messi’s life. Messi grew to be beloved in Argentina, but Maradona had ascended one level higher, a world cup champion level higher. It was the magic with the ball, his ability to …
In the previous episodes of our Bygone Relics show we have talked about the economic destruction of money and a country’s currency. The question we answer in this episode is: How do you recover from such destruction? Darkside of the moon dark I am today. My soul must be in the Southern hemisphere on their …
At Bygone Relics show, we continue discussing five of the very worst hyper-inflations and the ramifications of a currency collapse and juxtapose these historical events against the US situation today. Some of these numbers are eye wateringly high and nobody did it worse than Hungary. The worst inflation in history was the Hungarian Inflation after …