I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.