“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”~ A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh By Nina Heyn — Your Culture Scout A.A. Milne was talking about an experience most of us…

TV SHOWS DALLAS (1978–1991) and DALLAS (2012–2014) The granddaddy of generational sagas tells the story of evil oil baron J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) who manipulates his family and blackmails his rivals in his quest to achieve and preserve power and wealth. The three seasons of the show filmed in the early 2010s reprise the story…

By Karine Solnon Visuals by Titus de Feyter ​I. Introduction The European gold and silver retail market has seen no reduction of the tax burden in recent years. In fact, all trends point to the contrary.  To invest in gold or silver as a private investor,1 you need to build a global view. Understand the implications…

Day by day, America’s monetary and financial system teeters on the edge of a cliff. Since 2008, it is not just the recurring recessions and the boom and bust cycle caused by the banking system that have terrified us, but also what insane new path the Federal Reserve might invent to meet the next crisis. …

State of the World Our problem is not financial—it is sovereignty. The secret governance system is waging war on us, a war to destroy liberty, wealth, and even life. We need, therefore, state governments willing to protect independent state sovereignty instead of states run covertly by corporations and Wall Street banks. State sovereignty must be…

“The Market is not benevolent.” ~ Anonymous “The market is not benevolent,” a friend of mine quips whenever I complain about this or that. He means that the market doesn’t owe you a living, and being insensate, doesn’t wish you good or ill. Like a chainsaw, it’s a great tool but dangerous to the ignorant…

As a general rule, I recommend you store your silver and gold nearby, where you can get to it 24 hours a day, seven days a week. However, for many reasons you may need to use a depository for storage.  Here are the depositories I have personally vetted, except for The Security Center New Orleans….

Imagine the worst has happened. The banking and financial system is dead as a door nail.  Pretty soon your food will run out, and you’ll have no choice but to use your stash of gold and silver coins as money. But how on earth do you do that?   Relax, relax. There’s nothing to it….

Stefan Gleason is director of the Sound Money Defense League (https://www.soundmoneydefense.org/) as well as Money Metals Exchange, a national precious metals investment company and news service with over 600,000 readers and 400,000 paid customers. Gleason currently leads marketing, publishing, and real estate companies as well. Previously, Gleason served as Vice President of the National Right…

“This is the end of Western civilization.” ~ Lewis Douglas (U.S. Budget Director), remark to James P. Warburg after  President Roosevelt announced that the U.S. was going off the gold standard, April 18, 1933 Lewis Douglas was wrong, of course. The end of Western civilization had already come 60 years earlier, when the United States…

Debt Is Credit Debt and credit refer to the same thing. Debt views it from the borrower’s standpoint, credit from the lender’s standpoint. Banks loan borrowers nothing but their credit, so the borrower’s debt to the bank is only bank credit. Money Money is the most marketable commodity in the market and has no buy/sell…

Pose this question to a federal government or Federal Reserve official, and he will run you around the bush for months, mumbling blather like, “The value of the dollar depends on the productive capacity of the U.S. Economy” or “Dollar currency is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.” They…

By Franklin Sanders “Money has a history which is fifty centuries old, and filled with an experience too valuable and too dearly bought to be ignored or thrown away.” ~ Alexander del Mar “Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years…

Endnotes 1. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. I, p. 246. 2. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 160, as amended by the Act of February 12, 1873, Statutes at Large, Vol. XVII, p. 424. 3. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. V., p. 136. 4. U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. V., p. 136. 5. U.S….