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Viking Finance When travelling, I love to stay at bed-and-breakfast establishments because I meet the most interesting people. Even boring people seem interesting over a... Read More →

Gold bug logic In 1975 when I joined with Merrill Lynch Canada, US President Nixon had recently signed a bill permitting Americans to invest in... Read More →

The Change Volatility! Have you noticed how wild the financial markets have become since summer? In August we saw America’s Biggest and Bluest-chip stocks (The... Read More →

They chose the rock In previous letters I have been empathetic toward our American friends because they are between a financial rock and an economic... Read More →

Investing “In the Now” It’s not really a con job: it’s just the way they look at it. When our friends, the mutual funds salesmen,... Read More →

Simple Logic Why is the United States so low on the list of life expectancy of its citizens? Everyone knows the USA ranks very high... Read More →

Risky Business Baby boomers got dream-creamed in the 2008/9 stock market crash. Their blue chip stocks dropped 45% on average – the juniors dropped even... Read More →

Keeping the faith My oldest son is in shock. He found out how the American monetary system works by visiting a few websites that “expose”... Read More →