The 12 million or so illegals in America today, are a huge cost to the taxpayers or to the dollar, choose one.  Either we are paying through the nose for them, or they are sustained by printing press scrip, and I know it is the latter.  Thanks to Jack S. for sending me this […]

  Most of you will leave something to your heirs, and most of them will have to pay taxes on what you leave.  Isn’t that grand now?  You paid taxes when you earned it, and now your kids will have to pay again.  A client called me last week and complained about having to pay […]

  I am not sure even I realize just how many dollars are being printed, and how bad our situation is.  Around the world there are hunger riots.  The prices of food have gone so ’high’ in various scrips, that some people are really hungry and unable to buy food. Why?  Because wages and even […]

  Since I really believe we are on the verge of close to hyper-inflation, it may be wise to warn you contractors and other businessmen about not getting your neck in a noose.  Suppose you bid on building a home, taking into consideration the current price of lumber, bricks, pipe, wire, roofing, and even labor.  […]

  About the silly Olympic torch, that is.  Or for that matter, the Olympics itself?  How many torches were made?  A couple hundred?  Or do we think that the torch went from San Francisco to Argentina overnight, without going out?  Never, has there been anything as stupid as this torch carrying absurdity.  It’s not supposed […]

  Sorry, most of my past writings were lost by my server when he had a hard drive crash, but I can get all of the old Gold Eagle columns, plus a few since then, but the rest are gone, except for the printed copies I made of them.  This lesson is called “backup,” and […]

  If you have a mortgage, and also the money to pay it off, should you?  There are several answers.  First of all, being out of debt is a wonderful feeling.  The knowledge that your home The mortgage, or loan to buy a home, with the home used as security, dates back to the mid […]

We all need to economize, no matter what our income is.  Well, maybe not, but I was raised to make do with what I have, and never to squander dollars on un-needed things.  I haven’t bought a bar of soap in years, because I always save it at hotels where we stay.  Cheap?  I guess.  […]

Trying to keep the Titanic from sinking by re-arranging the deck chairs?  It’s an old expression, I know, but pretty pertinent in my opinion.  Let’s compare the Titanic to the US economy.  The Titanic was made of the best possible steel available in 1912.  Today, we know it was far inferior to today’s steel, but […]

    Is anyone out there old enough to remember the comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie?”  Perhaps you can’t remember it because of your youth, but possibly you remember a stage musical of a couple of decades ago, which was titled simply “Annie.” That “Annie,” was the ancient “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip put to music.  […]