As indicated in my previous post, Silver passed through the 17.70USD price point on October 3. View larger image here. Predicting precise future price points accurately should be the Holy Grail of trading

Shown here is a model of price action in silver over the most recent several months. There are a ton of lines here and for our immediate purpose we can ignore nearly all of them. We are concerned here

Presented here is my first silver bar. I have pounds of coins&rounds so when I decided to convert some steem into silver earlier this year, and then @silverd decided to convert some silver into steem

Presented here is my first silver bar. I have pounds of coins&rounds so when I decided to convert some steem into silver earlier this year, and then @silverd decided to convert some silver into steem

We'd been together for some years and I thought what the hey--I bet Trish ( @trishlarimer ) would love a new ring. The only one I'd bought her was a nice little 18k gold dinner ring with little emerald

I lost my entire savings back in the 1980s when silver dropped from a very low price to an absurdly low price. I had bought paper silver. It became worthless. I was lucky that was as bad as it got, and

Image is mine I don’t remember the 1st haiku I ever saw. I don’t remember when I learned of such a brief, structured form that served its function so well that it held its own beginning and its own end

Hatchet-Man Image I like to think that the term 'hacker' comes from using a hatchet to make the corners of log cabins fit together, like the fine cuts you see over to the right. Hacking is an attitude

Social Marketing Image Over at econsultancy.com is a post that sorta set a fire up under my butt. Here's the title : What's it take to be a social media expert? Not much, apparently You'll find nice things

Living In The Past Image Do you ever look through your favorite blog's archives? Back in March 2008 Marshall Kirkpatrick published an article about the (then) new MySpace apps, and the conspicuous absence

Once upon a time Trish decided we needed a snowcat in our front yard. So she packed and piled the snow into a feline shape. We ripped up an old broom for the whiskers and eyelashes. Some 14g wire for the

Jello Brain Image Following the twists and turns of politics, wars and the global economy over a century can make you feel like your brain is made of jello, but with diligence it is possible to make some

TreeTech Image For thousands of years mankind relied on the power of wood. According to Dr. James Hansen of NASA, the scientist who warned of the impending climate crisis back in the 80s, it is time we

There Is No Spoon Image There is no money in the world. There is only debt, promises to pay, IOUs. It’s hard to wrap your head around that, though, so it’s easy to look at all that debt the way we’ve been

The Setup Image In a very narrow view there’s no money in existence. At least, not like you think of money. The truth is, in every developed or developing society on earth where central banking exists,

Image Crisis? What Crisis? The subprime mortgage crisis was a problem for all of us. Whether you were in Asia, Europe, Africa, one of the Americas or Australia, you most likely felt it. Rising costs in

"Smok'em If Ya Got'em! " I was about 6 years old the first time I ever heard those words. Out in the tobacco fields of 1960s North Carolina, nearly everybody had cigarettes or chewing tobacco in their

This Sunday, I'm thinking about eyes. Sometimes they let stuff in and sometimes they let stuff out, like a doorway between us and the world. What we see out there isn't always what we want to see. But

Image Question in my inbox: When do the greedy have enough wealth, the power-hungry have enough leverage and the self-absorbed have their egos stroked enough? Is there a limit? I feel lucky to have a job,

Today's post may be unsettling, to say the least. And it is a bit longer than usual. But even though these events are ten years in our past,  they serve as an educational example of how our world