Perspectives: The Perfect Financial Storm?
Financial Storms Heading Towards the U.S. Economy
August 16,2001 © Copyright 2001 James J. Puplava

VI.  Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge and give thanks to many who have helped to shape and contribute to my understanding of The Perfect Financial Storm. First, I would like to thank the good Lord for giving me the wisdom to challenge assumptions and ask questions. A special thanks to Sebastian Junger for writing the book and Wolfgang Petersen for making the movie which provided me with the inspiration for my work.

Thanks are also in order to Bill Murphy and GATA for helping me understand today what I didn’t know about gold back in 1994. Many thanks are due to Dave Morgan for his help and insights on silver and the futures market. I would also like to thank Doug Noland for his Credit Bubble Bulletin. I have learned much by reading his articles and I’ve especially enjoyed our interviews on Financial Sense Newshour. He is blazing new trails in explaining credit and its impact on our economy.

A grateful thank you is due to all of those web sites and chat rooms where the truth is told and shared for promoting this series: Le Metropole Cafe, Prudent Bear, Fallstreet, Gold Eagle, Bear Forum, Silver-Investor, Fiendbear, Sharelynx, Kitcomm, NewsMax, WorldNetDaily, Yahoo Finance Boards, The Raging Bull, and USAGold. A special thanks to Nick Laird for his late Saturday night help with graphs.

Last and not least, thank you to my wife, Mary, who bears the brunt of my late-night thinking, who edits my writing and makes it more intelligible, and for her efforts as webmaster and the time creating the graphs, which tell so much of this story.