An Analysis of the ‘Rare-Coin’ Industry
An expose’ of the Pirates of the precious-metals underworld and how you can truly protect your ass-ets – from them!
Con Bob the Pirate
While there’s no guarantee on any investment, it is clear we have entered a period of great economic uncertainty. In recent economic news, several banks and major financial institutions have filed for bankruptcy leading our country into what is likely a recession period. The US dollar is losing significant value caused in part by monetary inflation, overspending, and fading market confidence. Some economists speculate that the US will consider a centrally controlled, government issued, cryptocurrency as a means to promote Modern Monetary Theory.
Throughout history, as fiat currencies have come gone, gold has stood the test of time again and again, and there’s reason why… Give Gold a Look in These Uncertain Times
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht
Always and again the magic of money presents us with problems. These problems change constantly. Time after time experience teaches us that there is no universally-valid system by means of which monetary problems may be solved. Every new situation demands new deliberations, new measures, new insights, new ideas. Each of these ideas must be informed by and subservient to the sole and single purpose of maintaining the soundness of the currency. ~ Hjalmar Schacht
Seeking out the most efficient and most secure route to owning gold, and converting it into widely-accepted currency, is the next best thing to enjoying gold-backed currency. In a world of central bankers hell-bent on devaluing your savings you need your own private gold standard.
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A majority of Americans now say the cost of living is the worst they can remember — and most of them blame President Donald Trump for their predicament.
Sales data shows that U.S. tractor sales were down 21.6% and combine sales decreased 56.1% year-over-year in May 2026, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM).
The King family in eastern Washington has raised cattle on its property since the 1950s. In addition to ranch property it owns, the King family has also leased from the state nearly 13,000 acres of grazing land for its cattle since the 1950s.
Did you know that the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has fallen by more than 97 percent since 1913? Sadly, as you will see below, the decline in the purchasing power of our currency appears to have greatly accelerated in recent years. Thanks to the rising cost of living, most Americans have lost faith in the American Dream. In fact, a new survey that was just released discovered that 51 percent of us believe that the American Dream is now out of reach for most people… 
There is a high likelihood that, due to the past large decline in the yearly growth rate of the money supply, the US economy is heading towards an economic bust. 
In the shadowed annals of human striving, where fortune’s wheel turns with inexorable force, few spectacles provoke deeper unease than the concentration of unimaginable riches in a single pair of hands. A trillion dollars – more wealth than many nations command, a sum vast enough to dwarf the economies of continents – rests now, for the first time in history, within the grasp of one man. Elon Musk, that restless engineer of rockets and circuits, stands as the emblem of this milestone. Yet the achievement, while born of ingenuity and daring, stirs ancient moral qualms.
“The barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace such goods, nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.”
There is a particular kind of financial wisdom that used to be passed down at kitchen tables. A grandparent, someone who remembered harder times, would explain that the first obligation of a responsible person was to spend less than they earned, put something away, and let patience do its quiet work. The savings account was not a sophisticated instrument. It was a vessel for deferred consumption – a way of translating present discipline into future security. The interest it paid was modest, but it moved in the same direction over time.
Social Security recipients are usually already working on a shoestring budget. However, policy shifts from the Trump administration mean those monthly funds could shrink due to a pair of new(ish) benefit offsets – one that is already taking a bite out of checks, and another looming on the horizon.
