I have a couple thousand books, and read 50-60 every year.  I guess I am read freak.  I keep my supply even, by constantly donating read books to worthy causes, or my house would be full of books.  At any rate, I recently came across a little booklet by famous economist Dr. Franz Pick, 1898-1985.  […]

I never make a prediction…until now anyway.  Despite the fact that no one can tell what can happen, even ten minutes from now, but November 6th is mid-term elections, and in this case, I think I can do a bit of predicting.  Not who will control the Congress, because time will tell, but depending whether […]

My phone rang yesterday, 10/18/18, and an elderly gentleman told me he had bought metals from me years ago, was glad to hear my voice again, and sorry to bother me, but he just wanted to ask me a question.  No problem, of course. The question was, “Are you having any trouble getting gold and […]

I have often told my clients that I have no idea what prices will be next year, next week, or tomorrow.  Usually they laugh, and some say, “Well you’ve been doing this for many years, surely you have a gut feeling.”  OK, I have been doing this for many years, and the only thing I […]

I have often told my clients that gold and silver are real money around the world, throughout all ages, and in all currencies.  Bitcoin is supposedly not connected with governments around the world, and someone can use bitcoin as real money, which I doubt.  Why do I doubt it?  Because anyone can fabricate a bitcoin […]

Hey, I’m going to be 85 in a few months, and I’m going to tell you a story about a movie experience I had 54 years ago.  It has to do with gold, which is real money, as opposed to Bitcoin which is a fraud.  Would you rather have a real gold coin for $1200, […]

The most common question I have been asked since I began doing precious metals in November of 1977, (that’s correct, over 40 years ago!) is, “When are metals going up?” Or, “What’s going to happen with prices?”  Or people asking me to predict or know the future prices, or the future of anything.  My general […]

The use of barter in trade, is actually much older than actual ‘money,’ and can be dated back as long as written history exists.  The Bible’s timeline, probably dates back about 4,000 years, and the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) uses the words ‘gold’ and ‘silver’ hundreds of times, not only as far as denoting wealth, […]

The inflation rate in Venezuela is 67,934 percent per year, currently anyway.  This means that if you wanted to buy an ounce of gold, it would be 81 million Bolivars, which is what they use to use for money, at least for now.  By the time you read this, they may have switched to the […]

The “bit-coin” fraud I have already written about, so I won’t further bother you with that scam, other than to remind you that a non-precious metal coin selling for about $7,000 is absurd.  They say that it’s good because you can use it without declaring it.  Gee Dad, you can do that with gold and […]