Bennett: Who do YOU Trust?

Nearly 30 years on the radio and serving our customers – that is what we bring you. As no-nonsense experts in the field of wealth preservation and insurance, there are thousands of clients, who have put their trust in the professional advice given these past years. We have long since lost track of how many ounces of gold, silver, copper and platinum products we have delivered into the hands of our clientele.

Robby Noel and I began reaching out to listeners in the early to mid 1990’s – to people who understood the future and coming economic collapse in what could be the last Roman Empire – the United States of America. And many of YOU were with us most of the way. Continue reading

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Snyder: The Purchasing Power Of The Dollar Has Collapsed And The Majority Of The Population No Longer Believes In The American Dream

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… Continue reading

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Is the US Economy Headed for a Bust?

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. Continue reading

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Smith: Stewardship, Virtue, and the Trillionaire Question… The Moral Weight of Wealth!

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.

With plainspoken candor, I ask, just what does any one single person do with so much incredible wealth in his sole possession?” Continue reading

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Smith: America’s Drift From Free Markets to Economic Fascism

“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.” ~ Hilaire Belloc, This and That and the Other, 1912

There is perhaps no greater misunderstanding in modern American life than the widespread belief that the economic system under which we presently live bears a close resemblance to the free-market capitalism envisioned by the architects of classical liberalism. Across the political spectrum, citizens increasingly express dissatisfaction with economic outcomes they attribute to capitalism itself. Continue reading

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The Daily Headlines: June 8, 2026

How the Gold Standard Turned the 1929 Crash Into the Great Depression

Discover the shocking truth about how the gold standard transformed a routine stock market crash into the most devastating economic disaster of the 20th century. While most people believe the Great Depression started with Black Tuesday in 1929, the real culprit wasn’t the crash itself – it was the monetary system that turned a manageable financial panic into a decade-long catastrophe. This eye-opening analysis reveals how a system designed for stability became an engine of destruction that left 25% of Americans unemployed and devastated economies worldwide.

Markets Take a DEEPER DIVE!
All US markets crashed hard on Friday in an epic landslide as stocks took a downhill thrill ride for the record books. Bonds and Bitcoin joined the collapse!

The stockslide down the mountain in a few stocks on Thursday that I warned, even as many other stocks soared, could be the likely start of a major market crash, developed into a thunderous roar on Friday. It swept the NASDAQ another 4% over the cliffs into the largest point-drop (-1,121) in NASDAQ history … as in ever! $1.75-trillion got wiped out in the overall stock market in a single day! That’s what I call some sudden realization of the kind I warned could develop very quickly!

Suddenly, the mountain moved, as Trump would like to say, “like never before! No one has ever seen anything like this before!”

Wall Street is dumb. Of course, if Trump totally TACOs out after Friday’s historic market mess, then maybe the war will suddenly end. It could be his biggest TACO yet. Or … (We’ll get to that.)… (Continue to full article)

Top Democrats urge Treasury Department to halt production of gold coins with Trump image
Two Senate Democrats on Thursday called on the Trump administration to stop the production of a 24-karat gold coin bearing President Trump’s image to commemorate America’s 250th birthday, with the lawmakers expressing concerns that some of the gold used by U.S. Mint could be traced to foreign cartels.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.) — the top Democrats on the Senate Banking and Finance committees — sent a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Mint Director Paul Hollis requesting to halt the coin’s production, citing reports that the gold purchased by the Mint to make coins was sourced from illegal mining operations.

At the very least, the Mint should ensure that a coin intended to honor the nation’s 250th anniversary is not made of gold linked to exploitation and criminal activity… (Continue to full article)

Gold Price Sits At Critical Technical Support: History Says Buy The Breakdown
After a blistering rally that carried bullion to record highs at $5,600 earlier this year, the metal has spent recent weeks consolidating and is now hovering directly above its long-term trend line.

For many traders, a break below the 200-day moving average is viewed as a bearish signal. Recent history suggests the opposite may be true for gold.

Spot gold – tracked by SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE:GLD) – changed hands near $4,500 per ounce on Wednesday, up roughly 1.5% on the day, after a multi-week pullback dragged it back down toward its rising 200-day average near $4,397.

The metal sits about 20% off the early-February peak above $5,600…. (Continue to full article)

If USPS Runs Out of Cash, Here’s What Could Happen to Your Mail Delivery
The warning was blunt and delivered in public: Postmaster General David Steiner told a House oversight subcommittee in March 2026 that the U.S. Postal Service is less than a year from running out of money. If USPS keeps paying all its obligations as it has been, the cash runs out as soon as October 2026. If it defaults on more payments to buy time, the deadline extends to February 2027, but only temporarily.

This is not a drill. For the 169 million addresses USPS delivers to six days a week, the consequences are anything but abstract. Retirees and others who rely on the mail for senior benefits have a direct, concrete stake in what happens next. Here’s what’s driving the crisis, what it could mean for your mailbox, and what Congress can do about it.

USPS ended fiscal year 2025 with a net loss of $9 billion on total revenue of $80.5 billion — and the core reason is simple: far fewer people use the mail. First-Class Mail and Marketing Mail volumes have fallen by more than 50% since 2007, gutting the product that once made USPS reliably profitable. Package delivery has grown to fill some of that gap — Shipping and Packages now account for roughly 40% of total operating revenue, up from about 14% in 2007 — but competing against UPS, FedEx, and Amazon’s own logistics network in a crowded market hasn’t been enough to offset the losses.

In response, the agency has suspended roughly $2.5 billion in pension contributions and proposed additional stamp-price increases as short-term steps to shore up its finances… (Continue to full article)

Investors Need to Realize Silver Supply Bailouts Are No Longer Available
In September 2020, JP Morgan paid a landmark $920 million settlement to resolve charges of “spoofing” – placing and cancelling fake buy or sell orders – to manipulate the silver market. A little over five years later, JP Morgan closed out a 3.17 million oz. silver short position (633 delivery notices), conveniently right before silver shot up from $73 to over $120/oz.

For over half a century, the COMEX silver futures market, along with the LBMA in the 1980s, have taken advantage of their pricing flexibility of paper futures, for which 90% on average settle in cash without any delivery. The Shanghai Futures Exchange (SFE), which began in 1993, established a model requiring physical metal be deposited for settlement against any delivery demand. Despite silver being a depleting asset, the futures markets in the west have long been geared more for speculation and hedging than actual exchange of physical asset and title. As a result, the COMEX and LBMA have had the power to artificially keep silver prices low for its banking and institutional trading clients. This ability to bail out these large financial entities is rapidly running out of fuel, as the overwhelming demand for deliveries has halved COMEX silver inventories since October 2025 to the time of this writing.

As a result, ETFs with physical silver bullion and silver mine stock holdings may very well see a bullish run in the next 24 months that may dwarf 2025’s triple digit gain.

When a futures exchange in one country inexplicably detaches from a similar exchange in another nation to create an arbitrage situation, a few hours, or at least a day, might be considered a pricing glitch. When it lasts for months on end, it begs the questions as to why is it happening, and who’s making a profit from it??? (Continue to full article)

Oil bosses warn prices will soar in a matter of weeks as inventories near unprecedented lows — I mean really, really low levels’
With the Strait of Hormuz still effectively closed, top oil-consuming countries have been rapidly draining their reserves, helping keep crude prices in check.

But Exxon Senior Vice President Neil Chapman warned at an industry conference on Thursday that such drawdowns can’t go on indefinitely.

“We’re approaching unheard of inventory levels,” he said, according to CNBC. “I mean really, really low levels. You can debate whether that’s going to hit those really low levels in two weeks or three weeks. Once you get to that point, then you’ll see price shoot up.”

For now, the U.S.-Iran ceasefire talks are deadlocked while the Strait of Hormuz remains a contested waterway. That was on display Saturday, when U.S. forces fired a missile at a blockade runner to disable it after ignoring repeated warnings.

Iran has also kept up attacks on commercial ships attempting to cross the strait without its authorization, though the U.S. is guiding more ships to safety.

The U.S. has released about 50 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve since the war with Iran started, sending the stockpile down by 12% to 365 million barrels, the lowest since April 2024… (Continue to full article)

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There Is No Reprieve in the Fed’s War on Savings

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.

That world has not merely changed. It has been, in a precise and largely unacknowledged sense, inverted. Continue reading

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The Trump Administration Is Already Taking a Bite Out of Your Social Security Payments – and They May Be Going in for a Second

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.

That means people could be looking at smaller monthly payments. Keep reading to find out what is being proposed and whether or not it could impact your Social Security payments. Continue reading

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The First Inflation Report Under New Fed Chief Kevin Warsh Shows Prices at Highest in Nearly 3 Years

The first inflation report under new Federal Reserve chief Kevin Warsh shows consumer prices in April were at their highest level in almost three years.

The personal consumption expenditures price index — the Fed’s preferred inflation measure — rose last month at an annual rate of 3.8%, the Commerce Department reported on Thursday. That’s up from 3.5% in March and 2.8% from February, and the highest since May 2023. Continue reading

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U.S. Debt Exceeds 100% of GDP, $31.27 Trillion and Interest Rates Continue to Rise!

The US debt surpassed $31.27 trillion, exceeding the country’s $31.22 trillion in GDP. This represents a debt-to-GDP ratio of 100.2%, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, compiled by the Committee on a Responsible Federal Budget and released in April. This level is well above the historical average. Debt-to-GDP ratios, in principle, are not a cause for concern, but other economic conditions in the US aggravate the situation.  Continue reading

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