Category Archives: The Mine or the Shaft

A 70% stock market wipeout – that’s the prediction of former U.S. Congressman Robert E. Bauman. Mr. Bauman’s a distinguished attorney, best-selling author and his work has been featured in The New York Times, National Review and The Wall Street … Continue reading →

Goldfinger failed to consider the stock and flow dynamics within a gold system. Gold has been the subject of many action films. From being lost in forbidden jungles to locked away in formidable vaults, many films involve the pursuit of … Continue reading →

When Roosevelt confiscated gold, he created, in reality, a two-tier monetary system quite frankly as the medieval city of Florence. The Great Financial Panic of 1344 was when the value of silver rose dramatically blowing out the silver/gold ratio. Silver … Continue reading →

The eye-opening debt increase is driven by $9.1 trillion in mortgages American household debt hit another record high, rising to $13.5 trillion in the last quarter, driven by $9.1 trillion in mortgages. The total is now $837 billion higher than … Continue reading →

A Pyramid scheme. A Ponzi scheme. And a Lie. Many of us do think that something isn’t quite right with the world economy. One in a million actually understands, where does it go wrong? Powers that be, do not want … Continue reading →

So long as the people in charge insist on governing the financial system through rules that no individual or group of individuals can hope to master, they will continue to overlook looming crashes. It is a decade since the financial … Continue reading →

You may know me as the guy using weird planetary alignments while assigning proper fundamentals to the gold sector, and recently even doing the same with a somewhat subjective and philosophical view of gold as an important counterweight or insurance … Continue reading →

Record futures shorts are the best gold and silver buy signals available Gold and silver were thrashed this past summer, relentlessly pounded to deep new lows. That has fueled extreme bearishness, with traders convinced the precious metals’ fundamentals are rotten. … Continue reading →

Despite a strong economy, about 40 percent of American families struggled to meet at least one of their basic needs last year, including paying for food, health care, housing or utilities. That’s according to an Urban Institute survey of nearly … Continue reading →

We’ll be getting back to work over the weekend, but until we do – consider the value of an old silver dollar and what it will buy (due it’s REAL value) to that of a single $1.00 bill.