Tuesday So I got past the barricades and visited Batlow in a press convoy. My house is still standing, more, it is almost unscathed. The service station two doors down had gas tanks that exploded. It utterly levelled the house in between mine and the service station. All that remains is rubble and dust. He only bought it a few weeks before Christmas. His house is … [Read more...]
Gold, Silver and Venezuela
Monday Why do you need to hold Gold and/or silver? Ask someone living in the socialist paradise of Venezuela. For 1oz Gold they can buy a house (2oz for a really nice house). For 1oz silver they can buy 3 to 4 months’ worth of food. The narrator sniggers as he imagines how many houses he and his fellow ‘stackers’ will be able to buy when the economy of their … [Read more...]