the board from gold (GLD) and silver (SLV) to WTI crude oil and the grains, with little exception rocketed to the upside. WTI crude briefly climbed over $100 bbl before slightly pulling back. If Mr. B's objective is to cause higher food and energy prices then put a check in the box. But I nearly forgot that our benign government prefers to calculate growth in inflation ex-food and energy, prescient those two items to be insignificant to the average household budget. Mr. B has spoken. To the responsible members of our society who have assiduously saved for ten, twenty, forty years and more, he unambiguously says, "screw you", implying that for at a minimum of nearly three years there will no meaningful bond yields. I choose to assist the irresponsible debtor. Savers must step up your risk profile and seek yield in equities or foreign denominated bonds. The eponymous "Bernanke Put" says go with impunity to the stock market. I told you I won't spoil the party with higher rates. But as we all should know there is no free lunch in equities and bad things can happen and that interest rates are but one component among many. Mr. B should show some courage and raise rates. I did a back of the envelope exercise in a previous article assuming an overnight rate of 3%. I added up all the bank deposits, money market funds, excess cash on corporate balance sheets, and assumed 5% of pension assets were invested in