December 2008

Just a quick reminder that if you sign up for the RevolutioNewsletter today, you get it for half price. Starting tomorrow, the price jumps from the introductory sale price of $10 a month or $100 a year to the actual price of $20 a month or $200 a year. I want to be clear that the whole point of the RevolutioNewsletter is to remember that it's always about the SLOW MONEY and that we're trying ... read more

1. Stocks vs. Bonds 2. Medicare vs. TARP 3. Big City vs. Ruidoso 1. Stocks have been hanging pretty tough. Corporate bonds have been crushed because investors don’t think they’ll get paid back the money they lend from company cash flows. Treasuries are still paying about zero percent as investors flee to the only place that has a printing press of dollars that can pay them back – ... read more

Here's the intro to the latest bi-weekly RevolutioNewsletter that we published today. CLOCK IS TICKING ON THIS LIMITED TIME OFFER: Subscriptions to RevolutioNewsletter (including full access to RevolutionPicks.com) are $20/month or $200/year. But you can sign up before the end of the year and get your first year of the RevolutioNewsletter and access to ... read more

1. It Takes A Billion 2. 50 Cents Gets You a Dollar 3. Read up on Darfur 1. Real headline of the day: “Obama Led First Billion-Dollar Race This Year as Spending on Vote Doubled”. These guys needed a billion dollars to get elected this year and you really think they’re out for anybody but the richest companies and people who gave them the money to get elected? Where do you think ... read more

Here’s what I was asking myself rhetorically today: 1. Still Think I’m Crazy? 2. American Express: Welfare Institution 3. Bankruptcies Would Be BULLISH! 1. Real headline of the day: “U.S. Housing Prices Collapse at Near-Depression Pace After Purchases Slide.” Think about that for a minute. We’ve thrown trillions at housing and nationalized the entire mortgage industry in ... read more

1. Forced Lending Will Destroy Housing 2. Housing Cannot Rebound For Years 3. Trade With The Kremlin? No Thanks 1. It stands to reason that the only self-sustaining system is one where private-profit-seeking companies with self-serving interests trades/lends/borrows/invests because they can create profits from doing so. Our new system is built upon welfare institutions that are soon to ... read more

But give my daddy a job cause he needs one Hes got lots of mouths to feed But if youve got one, I'll have a machine gun So I can scare all the kids down the street Father christmas, give us some money We got no time for your silly toys We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over Give all the toys to the little rich boys -- The Kinks The liars and crooks who run the investment banks ... read more

My own version of Sunday Comics -- How are all these ad-hoc rules and bail outs supposed to create confidence, again?: - [The credit agencies]: "I'm not going to so my math homework. Look at these unsolved problems. Here's a number in mortal combat with another. One of them is going to get subtracted. But why? What will be left of him? If I answered these, it would kill the suspense. ... read more

1. Non-binding means FREE! 2. Bailouts Makes Bear Markets 3. Give Time and Energy For Xmas! 1. Non-binding. Not one thing is binding in the unconstitutional $17 billion welfare grant we just gave to the people who supposedly took risks when they bought shares or lent company to a bunch of managers who were borrowing money to buy back shares at 15x the current price of the stock. Free ... read more

So the Treasury/Fed/Administration is now giving the last $15 billion of the Wall Street Welfare Fund called TARP to the the to bail out the guys who TOOK RISK by buying stock or lending money to the auto industry, or the "blue collar" folks who work there making six figures every year. Perhaps the single biggest lie that these socialist Republican/Democrat bureaucrats tell you is that they can ... read more