The most common question I have been asked since I began doing precious metals in November of 1977, (that’s correct, over 40 years ago!) is, “When are metals going up?” Or, “What’s going to happen with prices?”  Or people asking me to predict or know the future prices, or the future of anything.  My general […]

The use of barter in trade, is actually much older than actual ‘money,’ and can be dated back as long as written history exists.  The Bible’s timeline, probably dates back about 4,000 years, and the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) uses the words ‘gold’ and ‘silver’ hundreds of times, not only as far as denoting wealth, […]

The inflation rate in Venezuela is 67,934 percent per year, currently anyway.  This means that if you wanted to buy an ounce of gold, it would be 81 million Bolivars, which is what they use to use for money, at least for now.  By the time you read this, they may have switched to the […]

The “bit-coin” fraud I have already written about, so I won’t further bother you with that scam, other than to remind you that a non-precious metal coin selling for about $7,000 is absurd.  They say that it’s good because you can use it without declaring it.  Gee Dad, you can do that with gold and […]