American Missive

BECKLEY — Today the Federal Reserve stated,  ”Long-term inflation expectations have remained stable, and measures of underlying inflation have been subdued.”  I define inflation as a general and progressive increase in prices.  I’m not sure what the Fed’s definition of inflation is but let me share a couple of charts:

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BECKLEY — I have not been writing as much as normal because I have been working on a side project.  I wanted to take a blog post though and share some information about this special project.  It is an investment newsletter that takes a lot of the ideas expressed here at American Missive and follows [...]

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BECKLEY —  There is a family that earns about $100,000 annually.  They do pretty good for their size and live a nice life.   There has been one problem.  This family spends more then they make and has been for quite some time they’ve accumulated about $670,000 in debt.  Furthermore, the husband has promised to take care of his [...]

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BECKLEY — J.P. Morgan is now taking gold as collateral instead of the dollar because they realize how worthless it has become.  Meanwhile, Egypt’s current government is being overthrown because of food price spikes due to the crashing value of the dollar.   It’s kind of interesting to watch my country give a giant middle finger [...]

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BECKLEY — What investment hypothesis is right? Investments will perform best when the world recognizes that we live in a supernatural world with moral absolutes in which man is fallen with a dualistic nature.   Because of this we exist as a community most effectively with a traditional family, church and state with the highest form [...]

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BECKLEY —  Are you up for a good read? “The Example” by Chuck at Head Muscle is a very enjoyable short story about a Texas small business owner and his struggles against an ever growing and intrusive federal government.  This eight part story is full of great moments, story twists, and a great ending.  The Example I [...]

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BECKLEY — Ok, Obama’s State of the Union.  I haven’t watched it yet, but this puts me with the large and increasing majority of American’s who, I guess, just don’t care what this guy has to say.  Why? Watch it and see if their is anything meaninful there.  I don’t have to watch it to [...]

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