There it is, dear reader… the future of the United States of America. This just in… We have it from our usually unreliable source in Washington that Gideon Gono, now head of the Zimbabwean central bank, has been called in to aid the Obama administration.

Rumours are flying of a deal between the government and opposition in Zimbabwe…

As we hear it, Robert Mugabe will become the ceremonial president. Morgan Tsvangirai will become executive prime minister.

That’s precisely what we want to see. Because we have a direct stake in the outcome.

Both gold and silver in the Far East didn’t do a thing until London opened for business on Wednesday morning.

Neither gold nor silver did much of anything in the Far East or Europe on Tuesday. However, shortly before 10 a.m. in New York, something set a fire under the prices.

I remember university. When I wasn’t diligently studying economics, that’ll be most of the time, then, I was doing what everyone does at that time of life. Trying to pack as much enjoyment into those three short years before I had to go out into the world and actually work for living.