That’s a very common expression, used by Donald Trump, isn’t it? ‘We’ve been ripped off for decades by China and just about every other nation, etc. etc.’ What that phrase indicates, is that China and other nations, have been deliberately trying to kill America, and Trump is going to save us. Am I being fair? […]

In 1930, at the height of the depression, Congress passed the “Smoot-Hawley” tariffs, which were very similar to Trump’s recent actions. Please go to the internet and find a Newsweek article on it. While we are not now in a depression, and I hope we will not get into one, from Trump’s tariffs, I think […]

I’ve been writing columns, and dealing in metals for 48 years, and I have observed that 99% of our business, is from politically conservative, generally Republican, intelligent, people, who realize that the dollar is backed by nothing, and while it has not reached the level of the German Reichsmark after WW I, when it went […]

Dictionary definition of “Rewards: “Something given for service or merit.” In other words, a reward is something earned or deserved. A child may be given a reward for doing their chores, or learning the multiplication table, as an example. Use of a credit card, may receive a reward for its use, in the form of […]

In ancient Babylon, there was no paper money. Their money was the shekel, which equaled to a quarter ounce of silver. Therefore, they had no inflation! Imagine that! 1800 years ago, the money was a silver shekel, or a quarter ounce of silver. That was much better than what we have today, which is un-backed […]

It was about eight years after the Civil War ended, which war cost the North a million dollars a day to fight. The North won, but there was no income, as everyone was broke, and couldn’t pay taxes. There was no gold in its treasury, and all they had were silver coins as real money, […]

It was about eight years after the Civil War ended, which war cost the North a million dollars a day to fight. The North won, but there was no income, as everyone was broke, and couldn’t pay taxes. There was no gold in its treasury, and all they had were silver coins as real money, […]

The most asked, but unanswerable question is, “Will it go up tomorrow?” My answer is always, “If I knew what will happen a half hour from now, I’d be the richest man on Earth.” I do know this though, that everything will go ‘up,’ not in value, but in purchase and sell prices. Maybe not […]

Since the green nonsense is about finished, and if logic prevails, we will go back to good old, reliable, plentiful, non-polluting, (all coal burning power plants are super clean now), COAL, to make us again, the previously prosperous nation we were, before the fake greenhouse gas (CO2) crud, encircled the globe. RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF THE […]