Whenever the price of something rises as much, and as quickly, as gold has, we need to stop and consider the end game.
(This idea relates to one of the most important laws in economics, the law of demand, which says that when the price of something rises, people will demand less of it).
In 1940, Adolf Hitler, believing he too stood at the center of something, rose from the seat of his car as it slowly circled the Place de la Concorde before dawn; later, from the top of the Parvis du Sacré-Coeur, he gaped at the city he had fantasized about since boyhood, when he studied street maps and dreamed of reconstructing Paris in the heart of Berlin.
When the price of something rises then people will buy less of it.
Because when the price of something rises, people usually consume less of it.
And yet, talking to him, you can hear a hint of excitement, something rising.
Their god or something rose out of it.
Maybe it was all of these times and more, when something rose up from the deepest places within me and shouted, "I can't do this anymore!
"Hillbilly Solid" is a new program, hosted by Silas House, a novelist and a co-author of "Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal".
But investors see fatter paychecks as the start of something ominous: rising prices that may cause the Federal Reserve to end a decade of easy money policies even more quickly than planned and threaten stock values.
