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 obviously used as money.  Silver Roman denarius were struck in the AD 40’s, and […]

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 work.  I had sort of ‘retired’ in Scottsdale Arizona.  I […]

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 anything, but pulls out a folded advertisement which tells the reader that he can get silver bars […]

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 down,” or “Down don’t worry me,” from an old Negro spiritual.  Corrections are a normal […]