We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.