Don's Blog
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.
Dependent on Japan?
I honestly wish I could agree with the P.C. (non-Austrian) "economists," who today seem to believe that we are dependent upon Japan! This is about as true as saying that we are dependent on blood sucking welfare recipients for...
A Tiger in Your Tank?
Those of us with a bit of age on us well remember the Standard Oil commercials with the tiger urging us all to "put a tiger in our tank," meaning of course, that the gas sold by them was powerful, and similar to placing a...
Flight to Safety?
If all the roads were closed, should you sell your Chevy and buy a Ford? If there is a food shortage, should you buy new silver service? If the stock market tanks should you buy bonds? In other words is a so called "flight to...
The Truth About Shortages
Is there a shortage of Model A Fords? No. Is there a shortage of housing? No. Is there a shortage of anything that is available for a price which the "market" dictates? No, and that is the basic fact of supply and demand....
HOW MANY TAXES DO YOU REALLY PAY?
The power to tax involves the power to destroy." Chief Justice John Marshall The income tax was begun in 1913 as an amendment to the Constitution, legally ratified by far fewer than the required 36 states. Is it legal? A bit...
Girls Get Prettier At Closing Time
It’s an old country phrase of course, but a truism, and it can be taken to mean several things in the economic world. As a precious metals broker for many years, my current take on the phrase is that now, just when...
Diary of a depression
First of all, the cruel depression of the 1930’s did not begin with the stock market crash of October 1929. Although the market had lost 84% of its value in that crash, the depression that rocked America and the rest...
Hoover vs. FDR
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Iceland
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SNAFU
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Extremism
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You Can’t Fix Stupid
This is so true, that it is undeniable. Broken cars, furniture, teeth, shoes, and computers can be fixed, but you simply cannot fix stupid. The most obvious demonstration of this fact, is that Mitt Romney and...
This is so true, that it is undeniable. Broken cars, furniture, teeth, shoes, and computers can be fixed, but you simply cannot fix stupid. The most obvious demonstration of this fact, is that Mitt Romney and...
Profiling
Let’s see now, if I see a mouth breathing, bearded, long haired, thin guy wearing glasses, and driving a Volvo, on the campus of Berkeley, I am ’profiling’ him as a liberal creep. Fair? If I...
The White Man’s Influence
India is a crushingly poor nation. Its inhabitants live in squalor for the most part, even though India seems to be rising a bit, and some progress is being made. India’s infrastructure of...
Harold Camping Syndrome
October 21, 1844, was the day which William Miller finally decided that the world would end. He had several other dates, but finally decided on October 21st, after much prayer, and figuring. Miller had a lot...
$2 Million A Minute
Two dollars million a minute? That’s the amount the United States of America goes into debt every minute. $2 million a minute. This means that the D.C.Gang spends $2 million a minute more than it...
Protection
To watch the London riots on TV, was shocking to me. The "bobbies" (London police) had no guns! They had little round shields, and a few dogs against hundreds and maybe even thousands of mostly black rioters,...
Herman Cain
As usual, my columns are my opinions, and mine alone, but I have never liked Herman Cain. Of all the current runners, I think Cain is the worst. Now that Ginger White has joined the rest of his accusers, I...
