Don's Column
Select from the list the article of your interest. These columns are the opinions of Don Stott, the founder of Colorado Gold. They are not meant to be seen as the opinions or directives of Colorado Gold, Inc.
A Short History of Gold
Gold’s history dates back to about 3100 BC, but that would be boring, so let’s stop and think about how it must have been discovered. I owned three hotels in little Silverton Colorado, which was a mining...
What can you buy with gold and silver?
Simple, nothing! You can barter with gold and silver when paper money becomes worthless, as it has in 100% of the world’s history. America, and most, if not all other nations, knowing their currency can and will...
Black Friday, 1869
It’s a long story, and I’ll try to abbreviate it, because my daughter Melissa, sort of witnessed the results 130 years later! The story began when the North printed Greenbacks, as I have mentioned in a past...
World War III
For a couple of weeks, America’s left and right, thought with a shudder, that President Trump had America heading into World War Three. He was considered to be reckless, and acting without a grain of common sense,...
Special Counsel
For over a year now, special Counsel Robert Mueller has been costing taxpayers millions of dollars, and has been investigating everything his mind can conjure, other than his original instructions and purpose. There is a...
The Dollar (Part 4)
Until 1862, the United States had only twice issued dollars which were not redeemable into gold. Those times were during the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Both times, the wars were paid for with paper money,...
Mass Protests
Friday, March 23, 2018, saw hundreds of thousands of protesters parading across America. They were everywhere, protesting guns, the NRA, and demanding new laws, as if there weren’t enough already, which I am certain...
The Dollar (Part 3)
What are dollars anyway? The simplest definition, is that dollars are money. Money we have to use to pay our debts, thanks to ‘legal tender laws,’ which require this. This is not a total definition...
Tariffs
More on the dollar next week! President Trump is levying a 25% tariff on steel, and 10% tariff on aluminum. Rinos (Republicans in name only), and many Democrats are screaming that it will start a trade war, and they say...
The Dollar (Part 2)
Although experiments with paper money did occur throughout the early history of the country, they were largely unsuccessful. People, for good reason, didn’t trust the notes and preferred gold and silver coin. In...
The Dollar (Part One)
In The history of the dollar, or for that matter, silver coins, goes back to the time before Jesus! In BC 425-401 in Phoenicia, small silver coins with five towers on one side and horsemen on the other, were struck, and...
The Krugerrand
In May of 1975, I sold the Grand Imperial Hotel in tiny Silverton Colorado for six times what I had in it, and took a 30 year note back, which meant that I didn’t have to work any more. I was 41, and that didn’t...
The Silver Scam Continues
The phone rings, and it is an old customer who lives a few miles from me. Peter asks if he can bother me for a few minutes. “Certainly! Come on by.” Peter comes by, doesn’t want to buy...
Pump and Dump
The stock market has done a bit of correction in the last week or so. About 7%, as a matter of fact. To me, who doesn’t own a single share, it was to be expected. “Whatever goes up, must come...
Illinois Economics
Economics is the backbone of every business, individual, and state. Without excellent ratios between buyers and sellers, and government expenditures and tax receipts, bankruptcy will surely be threatened. With that in...
Get Rich Scheme
Everyone wants to be rich! There are thousands of web sites, advertisements, and other come-ons by con artists, who for a fee, (of course), will divulge to you the means they used to corner the market on stuff, open a sure...
The Bundy Affair
You may remember that the Bundys were charged twice about having their cattle grazing on ‘federal’ land without paying for it. They went to court twice and were found not guilty twice, and ‘with...
Over 95,894 pages
That book would be difficult to read, and especially if a new page were added every two hours and nine minutes. That is according to a publication called “Ten Thousand Commandments,” published yearly by the...
UNICEF and Afghanistan
This morning on NPR, a weepy UNICEF woman was bemoaning the fact that there are close to 50 million kids in the world, who are either starving, disease ridden, or abandoned. She itemized the nations in which these kids...
Big Deficit
Now that Republicans have gotten the tax reduction bill passed and signed, It’s interesting to note that Democratic critics are deeply worried that the national debt may be increased by a trillion dollars in the next ten...
