The madness of our present civilization has endless manifestations other than in the monetary field, where it originates. Once humans become mentally deranged - in other words, once they have lost contact with Reality - all sorts of curious human phenomena appear on the scene...

As I was shuffling papers in some old files, I came across a slip of paper on which I had written down the price I had paid for a Mexican $50 gold peso coin: $717 Mexican pesos. Judging from the price, I figure that the purchase was made sometime in 1972...

I suggest that you restore to Americans the use of silver money as a means of savings, to grant Americans the peace of mind that such savings provide, immune to the ravages of inflation which now decimate the savings of the whole world

Contemporary Science considers the Universe as exclusively a Material Universe. It vigorously rejects the existence of anything at all, that is not physical. For Science today, the question of the existence of Mind is a heretical question not to be contemplated, but rather to be ridiculed as a reversion to primitive thinking.

The United States was born in 1787, as a Republic with perhaps 2.5 million inhabitants, but it's many years now, since it ceased to be a Republic. The US has more than 300 million inhabitants today, and it is no longer possible to state correctly that the US is a Republic...