2009 Compendium Table of Contents Time to Warm Up the Printing Press .........................................................................................................4 A Story That Caught My Eye Today .......................................................................................................10 Open The Mint To Gold! .........................................................................................................................12 CBS - Paper Oil .......................................................................................................................................17 On "Hyperinflation" ................................................................................................................................ 20 Looking Ahead ........................................................................................................................................25 Deflation/Inflation/Hyperinflation .......................................................................................................... 30 Fun With Numbers .................................................................................................................................. 36 No Go ......................................................................................................................................................40 Random Musing ......................................................................................................................................47 Rogue Wave Alert ................................................................................................................................... 51 Interesting Times .....................................................................................................................................58 Meet John Williams ................................................................................................................................ 61 Ratios ...................................................................................................................................................... 70 Fiat Guarantees and Real World Barter Deals ........................................................................................ 72 Some Thoughts ........................................................................................................................................73 Gold Price Suppression Explained ..........................................................................................................74 Bankrupt Economics ............................................................................................................................... 76 The Time Is Right For A CHANGE OF EVENTS ................................................................................. 78 1 That Accursed Propensity To Save ..........................................................................................................80 Sell Your Sole, Not Your Gold ................................................................................................................ 83 All Paper is STILL a short position on gold ........................................................................................... 84 Some thoughts from FOA ....................................................................................................................... 94 All the Gold in China .............................................................................................................................. 97 CB Gold Sales = Looting ...................................................................................................................... 100 Mr. Chang's Gold .................................................................................................................................. 101 Hyperinflation by any other name .........................................................................................................103 Martin Armstrong on Goldman Sachs .................................................................................................. 106 Covert Market Operations? ................................................................................................................... 118 MK on China and Gold .........................................................................................................................122 The Judgment of Value ..........................................................................................................................125 Mayday Thoughts ..................................................................................................................................127 Why All Paper Will Burn (In plain English) .........................................................................................129 Worst Case Scenario (12" Remix) .........................................................................................................132 Martin Armstrong Makes The Case for FreeGold ................................................................................ 136 The Underwater Beach Ball Effect ....................................................................................................... 139 Taking Delivery of Physical ..................................................................................................................142 Weimar Reloaded .................................................................................................................................. 145 What Obama Does Not Know .............................................................................................................. 148 Mona Lisa or Ben Franklin? ................................................................................................................. 154 Like an Arab Sheikh ..............................................................................................................................158 The Bermuda Triangle of Currency ...................................................................................................... 161 Dead End ...............................................................................................................................................172 Glossary of Acronyms ...........................................................................................................................177 The Triumvirate of Wealth .................................................................................................................... 178 Gold, Oil and Money in the Free Market ..............................................................................................182 How The Dollar Made It This Far .........................................................................................................192 Call Me Contrarian ................................................................................................................................195 Bondage or Freegold? ........................................................................................................................... 200 The Call of the Century .........................................................................................................................205 Brown's Bottom .....................................................................................................................................213 The Waterfall Effect .............................................................................................................................. 215 FOA to Martin Armstrong - 1999 ......................................................................................................... 222 Confiscation Anatomy - A Different View ............................................................................................225 No Free Lunch ...................................................................................................................................... 229 Dollar Repudiation ................................................................................................................................235 Evolution! ..............................................................................................................................................248 Gresham's Ghost ................................................................................................................................... 257 Shake the Disease ..................................................................................................................................262 A Question on China ............................................................................................................................. 272 Say Goodbye to Wall Street .................................................................................................................. 276 How To Dig a Hole To China ................................................................................................................281 Your Own, Personal, Freegold .............................................................................................................. 284 Fair Value Gold? ................................................................................................................................... 292 Gold is Money - Part 1 ..........................................................................................................................295 Gold is Money - Part 2 ..........................................................................................................................301