I get a lot of calls from clients asking about gold.

I'm sitting here looking at a little gold key that the mayor of DeLand gave me in 2004. I enjoyed being there, and I thought the people were really nice, but it's a strange world when a charity stiffs you.

[5. In his essay] Can Gold Producers Survive By Promoting Jewelry?, ... At the end of the day, to revive the fortunes of the gold producers, it is necessary and sufficient to restore gold as the choice of free markets and free people all over the world as money that doesn’t depreciate at home or abroad; as money that is as steady as the stars; as money that is as faithful as the tides or, as the American Federation of Labor put it at the turn of the last century: ’Gold is the standard of every great civilization.’

Robbie has the most potential of any of those kids [I've worked with], including one boy who won the gold medal in 2000.

They think this is like it was then.

The older generation has that emotional attachment to the stock because that's how they made their living. They think it's un-American to think about selling the stock.