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 […]

I well remember when ethanol was first forced into gasoline back in the 1970s, and all the articles written and published about the harmful effects it has on engines, hoses, exhausts, and even the air quality.  That died slowly, and today, no one even considers it, since it is universally injected into your car’s fuel.  […]

I wrote this the day before I fell and broke 4 bones in my pelvis!  I’ll try to resume my column! – Don                             This is a column I wrote 11 years ago, on March 4, 2010.  I have written over 2,000 columns, […]

Don is out of the hospital and rehabing his injured pelvis.  Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers!

Statistics are from a column I wrote January 8, 2002 I must have done a bit of research back in 2002, but here was the cost of gold in reichsmarks in those years after WWI.  Glad you didn’t save in reichsmarks?  Gold then was $20.67 an ounce, and today over $1700, meaning, it has gone […]

Statistics are from a column I wrote January 8, 2002 I must have done a bit of research back in 2002, but here was the cost of gold in reichsmarks in those years after WWI.  Glad you didn’t save in reichsmarks?  Gold then was $20.67 an ounce, and today over $1700, meaning, it has gone […]

I have written close to 2,000 columns.  I have been sifting through many of them from 2010.  Here’s one, dated April 15, 2010, edited a bit.  Hope you like it.  (Note that the national debt 11 years ago, was close to $13 trillion, and now it’s over $28 trillion.) “look at us. We have debts, […]

On August 18, 2008, the name “Bitcoin” was registered.  When I wrote about it last, there were over 1,000 ‘crypto’ (meaning fake) coins of all names and promises being produced, probably in many garages or basements, by those who would attempt to become rich by producing crypto coins costing a few cents each to make, […]