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sand hurricane My winter home in Boca Grande, Florida took another two hits from hurricanes Helene and Milton. Two years ago, hurricane Ian inflicted terrible damage. My house had to be rebuilt. [...]

HURRICANES Recently my wife twisted my arm until I agreed to go on a cruise with her from Montreal to Boston. Midway through the cruise, we began to hear reports of a hurricane named Helene [...]

STREET RACING The breakdown of law and order in my city astonishes me. The Minneapolis I grew up in had low crime, law-abiding citizens and safe streets. No more. All types of crime are on the [...]

SILVER SUPERLATIVES My company made a lot of money in the 1980 price blow-off in silver and gold. Consequently, I thought I knew a lot about silver. It turned out that I had only a superficial [...]

IS SILVER WHY WARREN BUFFET DUMPED BILLIONS WORTH OF BANK OF AMERICA STOCKS? ZeroHedge reports, “Market observers have been puzzled by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway’s abrupt [...]

rocky road ahead Most of my friends believe that America has changed and not for the better in their lifetimes. They say we won’t be here to see it, but the end of our way of life is coming. They [...]

SILVER IS STILL SOUND When silver would drop the way it just did in late July, Ted Butler would be angry. When we talked, he would curse JPMorgan and the big banks and trading houses that he [...]

bambino 100 years ago in 1924, Babe Ruth was a baseball superstar. He was also the highest paid athlete in history. That year he made $30,000. The following year in 1925, he was celebrated for [...]

TED BUTLER’S LEGACY One thing about Ted Butler, he was a straight shooter. He was careful and cautious about the data he presented. He spent a lot of time studying the silver market and he [...]

GREAT SILVER PRICE VOLITILITY AHEAD This is the last thing Ted Butler wrote for us. He was trying to summarize what he saw happening in silver. His illness was making it difficult to write, but [...]