The Evolution of Investing
Where are you in the evolution of investing? As an investor, are you walking upright or are you still swinging from the trees? What do you really know about the world of money? People often think about the world of money but actually there is the world of “earning money” and the world of “growing…
Eureka!
Eureka! I have to admit, even I feel like I talk about gold too much. This feeling gets reinforced when I show Burgess, my wife, what I’m going to write about for the week. When she sees the “g” word, she usually sighs and says, “Again? Why don’t you write about something else, like your…
Once Upon A Time
Once upon a time…blah, blah, blah. The fairytales about our economy that governments, bankers, Wall Street, and conventional investment advisors have been telling us are seemingly not coming true. I am feeling increasingly cynical. The following news items from the past few days made me realize I’m not being cynical enough. The World Bank has a…
America’s Secret Elixir
What happens to the American Miracle when America can no longer take on more debt? America is the most powerful county this Earth has ever known. Not even the Ming Dynasty came close to the power and influence that modern day America has. So how did this happen? Are Americans smarter, taller, faster or better…
My Thoughts on Silver and I’m Speaking This Weekend
I was planning on communicating just to let you know that I will speaking this Sunday, May 8th but with the recent movement in silver I thought I’d add some commentary around that too. First, if you’d like to see me speak or know someone who would, I’ll be speaking this Sunday, May 8th at the South…
Is Gold Really Worth $1500?
FACT: Gold is the only bubble in history backed by an asset that hardly anyone owns. In 1792 the Second Congress of the United States passed the Coinage Act. The act established that a US dollar was defined as 24.1 grams of pure silver. Fast forward 220 years. Today the US dollar is defined by…well…nothing.…
The US Dollar is Dead…Long Live The US Dollar
Tomorrow night is the second Tuesday of April…that means the Insider Club Gathering. As always we have so much to cover. Interested? With the first quarter of 2011 behind us there is a lot of insight we can glean from the markets reactions to the first three months of this year. Would anyone have ever imagined on January 1st…
If Printing Creates Wealth, Why Isn’t Zimbabwe The Richest Country on Earth?
If printing creates wealth, why isn’t Zimbabwe the richest country on Earth? You may want to sit down for this one. The past doesn’t exactly predict the future but it often rhymes. It’s time we take a moment to look back over the past three and a half years so we as US dollar holders…
Stack The Deck In Your Favor
20 years ago Riverboat Gambling changed my life. Back then I was in college. But lady luck would have it that my college was exactly ¼ mile from the Mississippi River. Riverboat Gambling had come to my college town. I quickly learned that a card player could completely change the odds of winning the card…
The Most Important Gold Chart In The World
The Most Important Gold Chart in the World If you own gold then you need to gaze at the charts below. But before I talk about gold, let us take a step back…maybe two. There are two cycles in the world of investing. A paper cycle and a physical cycle and the world is always…
