The online magazine Slate recently featured a piece on surviving a terrorist nuclear attack.
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The price of oil has sagged, (down to $66 per barrel!), dragging gold and silver down a bit. So this dip might be a great time to buy metals if you have been dragging your feet. I’m still predicting substantially higher silver and gold prices before December.
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We’ve been driving a lot of back roads in recent days, looking for property on behalf of a consulting client. Yesterday, we drove past a ranch that had set up a huge (life size) bull elk statue on a ridge line, about 250 yards from the nearby county road. They must get some good laughs hearing the out of state hunters banging away at it on opening morning of deer and elk season.