Category Archives: Out of The Past ~ The Archival Edition

What you are about to read, takes me back to the year 2000, as I studied and compiled information and data for weeks in preparation for another of my lengthy broadcast marathons – one which in fact was eventually presented … Continue reading →

I know you, like me, have parents or grandparents that lived through the Great Depression and will never forget it. Ever since, they saw saving money as absolutely essential. This was even more true for my homesteading grandparents whose very … Continue reading →

An expose’ of the Pirates of the precious-metals underworld and how you can truly protect your ass-ets – from them! What you about to read is excerpted from a a series of emails, which I began to receive on the … Continue reading →

~ The Forefathers’ Finances ~ Many of us might be understandably guilty of viewing life in 18th-century America through a lens that only consists of tricornered hats, lots of tea and Mel Gibson single-handedly altering the course of the American … Continue reading →

“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’’ve felt it your entire life. There’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in you mind, driving you mad”.  … Continue reading →

Don’t ever listen to your employees – just spend their retirement into oblivion! ~ Ed. A toothpaste factory had a problem: it sometimes shipped empty boxes without the tube inside. This was due to the way the production line was … Continue reading →

We are coming to the point in the United States when even the US government will no longer be able to borrow at very low long-term rates. That point is a few years off, and we have time to change … Continue reading →

A run is a mass withdrawal of cash funds from a borrower. We are in the midst of a continuing worldwide credit crisis, punctuated by “runs” of varying prominence and publicity. These runs are rational, not panics and not due … Continue reading →

Before young Carlo Ponzi pioneered in financial chicanery, he had already lead an interesting – and criminal, to anyone who should have bothered to check – life. September 11, 2003 ~ As the legend goes, the scheme that would make … Continue reading →

The assumption by global depositors who have entrusted their national savings with the Federal Reserve and US Government has always been that when they request to repatriate their holdings the Fed would simply open the vault, access said assets and … Continue reading →