You might choose to pounce on BEN. It is a 77 year-old quarterly dividend-paying California-based capital markets company with a 34 year record paying quarterly plus supplemental dividends.

Silver seems to be setting the stage for a major run up.

US banks have spent far more on technology than banks in Europe – will European banks ever be able to catch-up?

“If the dollar collapses and another money or currency replaces it, how will anyone know how many units of that new currency it will take to buy an ounce of gold?”