INVESTMENT RARITIES INCORPORATED
was founded in 1974 by Jim Cook, and has since grown to be one of the nation’s leading silver and gold dealers. In the 48 years of service, IRI has logged 400,000 transactions for 60,000 customers equaling $3 billion sold and delivered.


From the desk of Jim Cook
Looking Ahead
Do you ever wonder what will happen to America in the future? Will we prosper or will we fail? Technology may save us for a while and perhaps for good. Unfortunately, some of our present trends threaten to do us in. Our welfare system produces growing numbers of criminals who threaten our safety. We have the crime, but not the punishment. We have brought a lot of people into the country who are notorious for their intolerance. Will they always be peaceful? Drugs threaten societal collapse through the multiple evils of addiction, misconduct, homelessness and bad health. The nation’s finances are in disarray and inflation punishes us all. Also, we are too heavily taxed by a government of wastrels. In ancient Rome, the same ills send the citizens to live with the barbarians. READ MORE
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INSIGHTS from TED BUTLER
Jim Cook Interviews Ted Butler
Cook: Is the public’s interest and knowledge about silver picking up?
Butler: I’d say yes, overall, but I am still of the opinion that most still don’t fully grasp how silver has been manipulated and suppressed in price for 40 years – and this is the absolute key to why someone should buy and hold silver. READ MORE
