“…Investors Buy Up Gold” is the remainder of the headline in Friday’s (2/22) Wall Street Journal. The following are direct quotes from the six column piece, with no words of mind added. “Investors are buying gold again as concerns about a slowing global economy are putting a premium on safer investments. Gold prices are up […]
My birthday was yesterday 2/17. I’m now 85 and in virtually perfect health. I still don’t know why I retired, but I did. __________________________________________________________ The so called “Civil War,” or more correctly called, “The War of Northern Aggression,” began on April 12, 1861, with the North shelling Ft. Sumpter, after being warned not to do […]
The first recorded use of paper for money, rather than gold, silver, bronze, copper, iron, and other metals, occurred in China in the thirteenth century. The then Chinese ruler, Kubla Khan, manufactured paper money from the bark of the Chinese mulberry tree. On every piece, officials who been appointed to make the paper ‘valuable,’ wrote […]
It’s really nice to see silver and gold prices going up steadily of late. Will they continue? No one knows, but an article in Bloomberg might give us a hint. Remember, silver is used in a variety of items currently popular, such as solar cells, computer touch screens, medicine, and of course jewelry. Industry is […]