Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.

Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.