The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

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

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.

When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

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

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.