2/13/2008 (13 years ago!) “Vallars” are a historical fact. In 1931, after the stock market had crashed and everyone was broke, depressed, and Roosevelt hadn’t been elected with his million promises (none of which worked), frantic people in Salt Lake City began printing “vallars.” Townspeople banded together and created a group which they called the […]
This is a column I wrote in July, 2008, 13 years ago, and it needs to be said again. “On July 4th, everyone plays patriotic music, and it is one of my favorite holidays. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir always does a wonderful program of patriotic songs, and usually a drama of some sort. And then […]
A client of one of my kids e-mailed me and said that I should write a column about which gold and silver to buy and what about numismatics? Here goes. The ‘Spot price’ of anything is the price the manufacturer has to pay for raw materials, and in the case of gold and silver, […]
It’s all so common. People might say, as an example: “I bought gold @ $900, and now look! It’s $1900! I’ve made a thousand dollars an ounce.” True, you have made $1,000 an ounce, but is that profit more truthful or useful in value? Or have you made a profit of $1,000 an ounce in […]