Good morning and welcome back to Bygone Relics, I’m C Thomas Printer. Let me tell you a little story that was made into one of the saddest movies of all-time. In 1930, the great Australian racehorse Phar Lap had won 7 straight races going into the Melbourne Cup. The big red horse won “the race …
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“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford in 1922 Good morning and welcome back to Bygone Relics, I’m C Thomas Printer and the reason we talked about Fordism last …
“Two percent of the people think; three percent of people think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think.” Henry Ford Good morning and welcome to Bygone Relics and that quote sums up why we are here. Folks, we are the ones that will have to do the thinking. Today we are going …
“Arrogance is the camouflage of insecurity.” Tim Fargo Welcome back to Bygone Relics, I’m C Thomas Printer and I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne and my Ilsa Schneider. Last week we speculated recklessly that China might be playing possum and appearing weaker than they are to lull us into a sense of comfort. I get the …
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War Good morning and welcome back to Bygone Relics, I’m C Thomas Printer and today we are going to live recklessly. It can be easy to follow the crowd, and simply repeat what others are talking about and …
“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 …
“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 …