James Dale Davidson’s latest special report, “The Plague of the Black Debt,” went live to Notes readers yesterday.

The 1970s didn’t just curse the world with cheap German wine and the Bay City Rollers. That decade gave us soaring inflation, too.

Suddenly I think, ‘Ahhh! I see! Demand is more than supply, meaning price will go up until demand equals supply!’, at which point I think, ‘Whee! Investing is easy when you know to avoid stocks and bonds and buy gold, silver and oil.

Yesterday I wrote to you about the pessimism within the Argentine business community. However, Argentine businessmen are not the only ones in a bad mood… The Chilean businessmen are also more than a little bit worried about the situation the Chilean economy is going through.

You invested $100 in 2002 buying power to get back, after five years, $76 in 2002 buying power! Hahaha! Your ‘fabulous’ investment made a paper gain, but produced a real, inflation-adjusted loss of 25% of your money! Hahaha!