Whiskey Blog

By Mike Shedlock “…It appears that Greenspan has plenty of reasons for why the housing bubbles worldwide ever started and are now bursting. This appears to be Greenspan’s new MO…”
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“Gordon.”, the double “red IPA” from Oskar Blues brewery in Lyons, Colorado, is the latest new find for me. I picked up a four-pack of the silver-and-green cans (yes, cans) for $14.49 (ye gods!) at Galeville Grocery in Liverpool, NY….
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Did you know that Chocolate began as beer? That’s right, cacao beans were first used as food in the making of ceremonial fermented drinks for Mesoamerican elites about 3,100 years ago. This is a pretty appropriate thing for me to…
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Only one distillery can claim to have the world’s best selling whiskey,and it’s not in Scotland or Kentucky. Jack Daniels in Lynchburg,Tennessee sells more than 10 million cases of its Black Label whiskeyevery year…and 2008 will mark 40 consecutive years of service formaster distiller Jimmy Bedford. We’ll hear from Jimmy, along with thelatest on a […]

By Fitzroy McLean “…I’m writing from my coveted spot at a sidewalk café in the city’s fashionable Recoleta district. I wasn’t planning to stop and whip out my laptop but (a), there are a lot of really elegant women in summer dresses walking by…”
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By Byron King “…My Outstanding Investments colleague, Kevin Kerr, and I both expect to see a price increase to $150 for a barrel of oil, and even $200 oil would not shock us. Expect to pay $5 or more…”
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By Adrian Ash “…“We don’t know what will happen to the dollar,” as Patricia Bundchen, sister and manager of Gisele, the statuesque and shapely Brazilian supermodel, puts it. “Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros.”…”
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By Mike Shedlock “…Why would congress take an interest in speculating on crude oil but not when it comes to stocks, treasuries, or CDOs? Something doesn’t seem to match up here, so we’re going to have to take a look…”
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By Byron King “…GRAB YOUR HARD HATS AND LACE UP your steel-toed boots, dear readers, because today we are going back out to the drilling rigs and construction sheds in search of a remarkable investment opportunity…”
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By Jim Amrhein “…As you may know, it was on this day that Englishman Guy Fawkes was arrested in 1605 while attempting to blow up the bustling House of Lords during that year’s opening of Britain’s Parliamentary session…”
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