American financial collapse strikes close to home
Sunday, September 14th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in economics | 2 Comments »My ex-wife sent an interesting link along yesterday, joking, "Wanna invest in some Florida real estate?" [caption id="attachment_531" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Home sweet foreclosure"][/caption] This was our first house, purchased new in 1995 for about US$64,000 in Winter Springs, Florida. After we left ...
Why Slovakia?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | No Comments »A lot of people have asked me how I came to live in Slovakia. Answering that casts us back to around 1997 when I read Roger Gallo's Escape from America. The book advances the Perpetual Traveler, or PT, philosophy, and provides ...
How ya gonna hyperinflate with no fancy paper, Mugabe?
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in economics | 2 Comments »From the LA Times: Lack of bank note paper threatens Zimbabwe economy The country, already suffering hyperinflation, is on the brink of financial collapse, analysts say. HARARE, ZIMBABWE -- It has come to this: Zimbabwe is about to run out of the paper ...
To Alex Jones, Luke Rudkowski and the 9/11 Truth Movement
Saturday, July 12th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in crime, history, people | 1 Comment »Dear Alex Jones, Luke Rudkowski and the 9/11 Truth Movement: First of all, and let me be very clear, I love you guys (and girls). Around 8:30am Pacific Time on September 11, 2001, after my girlfriend and I had watched -- shocked, ...
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