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Investing Is No Longer Safe

Investing is no longer safe if you view matters the way I do. This opinion is based on economic and political principles. It represents some…

The Death of Fiat Currency Rarely is an article so thorough and well presented as this one by Alasdair Macleod below. It is a tour…

I had thought the book “Wealth if You Want It” would be ready to be made available around this date. It is not, although for…

There are two ways to invest directly in gold: Gold and Gold ETFs. Gold mining stocks are an indirect way to do so. Why invest…

Mark Twain argued that history rhymes. How close “history rhymes” was to “history repeats” was not clarified by Mr. Twain. It is likely that he…

Here is some basic advice for those who choose to use a financial advisor. I do not know the author or the website so it…

National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. … and the cost accounting of the Pentagon. Louis Sullivan/Connie Horner quoted by Novak in _Forbes_
The manifest defects of central planning are not nearly as bad as its dehumanizing nature. For the progressive central planner is a regressive tyrant. What he seeks to do by regulation is only different than what the master does by the whip in his coyness. Andrew Mellon
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. John Kenneth Galbraith
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. Henry Ward Beecher
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. H. L. Mencken