A couple of months ago, via friends in Houston,  I was introduced to a very smart chemist and former VP of SGS.  This gentleman could have retired and never looked […]

How many consumers understand the important relationship between raw commodities and our technologically-rich world?  Do they understand the value of primary industry in both developed and developing countries?  Our guess […]

Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway thinks so. While speaking at the Ross School of Business (U of M) he said this: “You know it is one thing to think gold […]

You may remember that economists are interested in the relationship between GNP and the nation’s money supply i.e., the Velocity of Capital.  Better, they say, that the nation’s capital is […]