This is where we stand today; this is why things are the way they are today, with World Debt standing at $325 Trillion dollars, and World Gross Domestic Product at only $100 Trillion dollars...

The night was pitch-black, and we must have been more than 50 miles away from Acapulco, because the glow of its lights in the sky was not yet visible above the horizon. The sea was calm.

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