“Well, suppose they confiscate my gold just like Roosevelt did 75 years ago?”  If I have heard that once, I must have heard it a hundred times.  Did Roosevelt confiscate everyone’s gold back in 1933?  If he did, how come there’s still a lot of it for sale in a thousand coin shops and numismatic […]

The Hong Kong restlessness and protests have been ongoing for eleven weeks, and show no signs of ceasing.  It will lead to nothing but more violence in the extreme, I am afraid.  I have a 2015 book written by Louisa Lim, about Tiananmen, which occurred on June 4th, 1989.  The title of the book is […]

That’s the latest harp by the Demos.  let’s get rid of cows, cars, planes, coal, fossil fuels, etc. and make the world green and unpolluted!  Whoopee.  I can’t wait…except we will have to wait, because it is impossible.  Today, if you have solar collectors, or a windmill, and you think all is wonderful?  Remember, it […]

Excuse me for a week, but I am not going to write about economics, gold or silver, but as the title says, a nation divided.  Never in my many decades of existence, have I ever witnessed such a divided nation, and as I strive to find a reason, I always come up with the simple […]