Category Archives: Let’s Get Physical

Why not? Op-Ed columns, legislative decisions, news and economic and precious metals commentary from around the nation and around the world. Wall Street and the Federal Reserve be damned! All the reasons under the sun and the darkness of a moonless night – as to why YOU need to have precious metals in YOUR possession – ’cause some day it’s going to rain – and precious metals will become your safe harbor in an economic storm.

I sure am glad that I own gold…

The price of gold is up nearly $100 since Christmas, reaching around $1,575 per troy ounce as I write this letter. This most recent price bump is due to the panic over Iran. But the gold price is up nearly … Continue reading

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Got physical… close at hand?

Let’s do something about that… 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 … Continue reading

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Americans’ Credit Card Debt Poised to Reach 10-Year High

Americans are projected to fall seriously behind on their credit card bills at the highest rate in a decade as banks push a record number of people to get plastic. The share of credit card borrowers who are at least … Continue reading

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Three Things You Didn’t Know About The Crash Of 1929

October 28, 1929 – 90 years ago – is known as ‘Black Monday’ in financial circles. The US stock market had peaked the previous month, on September 3, 1929, with the Dow Jones stock index reaching a record high of … Continue reading

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A Realistic Argument PROVING $2,432 Gold and $149 Silver

EDITOR: WOW! Now THESE numbers make sense. ~ J.B. Below is a comment from youtube video on Mike Maloney’s latest video The World’s Biggest Gold Investors are on a Buying Spree SKIP AD Gold is $76 AUD a gram here … Continue reading

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CRYPTO MANIA

Bitcoin is making new highs for the year and it inspired me to draw this cartoon. Mark Zuckerberg is going to roll out a Facebook cryptocurrency based on a reliable blockchain called “Libra,” suggesting scales of justice. It will be … Continue reading

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Numismatics Are Fool’s Gold

The following is mixed from two different columns, one from renowned economic commentator, Peter Schiff, and the other from the editor of the Kettle Moraine family of publications, including Morgana Precious Metals. Numismatics Are Fool’s Gold Last month, I addressed … Continue reading

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Price: Gold, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Let’s think about economic life around the world, as it was one hundred years ago – a very short time ago, in historical terms. The first thing that comes to my mind, is how difficult it was to accumulate any … Continue reading

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What Most People Don’t Know About Gold

Historically, gold has never been viewed as a speculation. It was simply money: cash in the most basic form. It was a medium of exchange and a store of value. People did not accumulate gold because it could make them … Continue reading

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Some of the rarest US coins ever found are hitting the market, thanks to NC shipwreck

The first 502 gold and silver coins plucked from a shipwreck off North Carolina have been sold to a global coin dealer at a price that “wildly exceeded” the recovery project’s expectations. No one involved in the deal is saying … Continue reading

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