Original Forbes article published on March 24, 2019. If you’re looking at investing in gold to protect your retirement assets, you’re likely in it for the long haul. But that doesn’t mean that you’re oblivious to moves in the price of gold. After all, you want to buy when the gold price is as low […]
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From looking at its sleek lines you might find it hard to believe that the Savage Model 99 is a 120-year-old design, but it is. Introduced in 1899 in the midst of tremendous innovation in the market for lever-action rifles, the Savage 99 became one of the first lever-action rifles to be able to make […]
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Market watchers have been looking for months for signs that a recession is on the horizon. Despite all the negative economic news, from a weak housing market to falling job growth to decreased international trade, stock markets still remain at historically high levels. But now investors have the indicator they need to know that a […]
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More and more people today understand the necessity of creating a go bag, or a bug out bag. When you need to get away in an instant, having everything you need to sustain yourself for several days conveniently stored in a single bag can literally be a life-saver. While people like to tailor the individual […]
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The Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) meeting last week was nothing less than earth-shattering in terms of its ramifications for financial markets. While many analysts had thought that one rate hike this year might be within the realm of possibility, the Fed all but shut the door on that happening. More importantly, the Fed indicated […]
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With the demise of the half dollar as a circulating coin, the quarter dollar coin became the workhorse coin of American commerce. That made the George Washington quarter the most widely used and most recognizable coin produced by the US Mint. But very few people realize that the quarter used to be minted from silver, […]
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While it looks unconventional to modern eyes used to the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500, the Winchester 1897 shotgun was once one of the most popular shotguns in the country. Produced from 1897 to 1957, the Winchester 1897 was the first commercially successful pump shotgun and one of the first shotguns built to withstand the […]
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Every week seems to bring more and more news that the economy, if it isn’t already in recession, is well on its way to recession. This time it’s bad news from the manufacturing sector, which like most other sectors of the economy underperformed versus economists’ expectations. Factory orders barely rose in January, up 0.1 percent […]
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While many consumers are undoubtedly upset at the censorship exercised against conservatives by tech behemoths such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, the solution of getting government involved to force them to remain neutral to differing points of view is neither practical nor ideal. As the response to the New Zealand mosque shootings has shown, governments […]
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When envisioning a worst case scenario they’re trying to prepare for, every prepper can point to the situation in Venezuela. In the midst of a hyperinflationary crisis, crumbling infrastructure, and two men competing for leadership of the country, things couldn’t get more fractured. But what made an already bad situation even worse was a week-long […]
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