Thanks to Junior Mogambo Ranger (JMR) Joseph Z., who sent the Bloomberg article of the National Weather Service saying, “The high in New York City today is forecast to hover around 80 degrees, making it only the second time on record that June and July temperatures failed to reach 90,” which I take as proof that the world is not heating up, but instead is cooling down.

If you are like me, you are suddenly realizing that your income did not go up by 0.2%, or any percent, because if it did, it seems like you would have remembered it. And anyway, if my income DID go up, then where in the hell is all of this money?

Junior Mogambo Ranger (JMR) Gary S. sent me the chart of “30-Day Gold Lease Rates” from Kitco.com, which definitely shows that the one-month gold lease rate was less than zero. He asks, “The lease rates on 30-day gold and silver are negative?!?! What does that mean?