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MMM-136: Jack in the Box Economy

Feeling of Dread. We need BIGGER government! Misery loves company. Tool: Geocaching.com. IFA’s invesment principles. Move your taskbar to the side. Huntington is fat. Cashback for gold.

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Topics in this week’s show include:

• Ever get that DREAD Feeling? Like waiting for a Jack in the Box to pop? 30 Reasons to DREAD Great Depression 2 from Paul B. Farrell. And then there’s UCLA’s Colloquium on the Financial Crisis
• Remember my discussion of having more Representatives? Lew Rockwell’s podcast talks about The Case for Bigger Government.
• Why did everyone get reelected?
• Misery loves company. You’ve got plenty.
• TOOL: Geocaching geocaching.com and iPhone
• Lazy Portfolio Smackdown. Harry Brown is down 10%, but is it actually up 10% against deflation?
• LEARNING EARNING: IFA Investment Principles:

1. Capitalism works.
2. Risk and return have a positive correlation.
3. Free markets match prices to current levels of uncertainty, so that buyers can earn a risk-appropriate return.
4. The greater the risk, the longer the time required to obtain the expected return.
5. Passively invest, diversify to the maximum, maintain a small and value tilt and keep turnover, costs and taxes to a minimum.
6. Risk exposure must be initially matched to the investor’s risk capacity, then monitored and maintained through rebalancing. 
7. Avoid capital gains and realize losses in taxable accounts.

• Why don’t people move the taskbar to the side?
• Are you hungry in this depressed economy? As far as surviving starvation goes, people from my hometown will outlast everyone else because Huntington is FAT.
• “Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o’course.” – Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
• I understand why USA can’t go it alone on a gold standard. Congress must NOW Repeal Legal Tender Laws and allow competing currencles. Someone will develop a gold-based electronic money (hmmmm. goldmoney?) which the world can then standardize upon.
  
• eBay and Microsoft’s Cashback program: Buy Gold!

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