You know what.

I'm getting pretty tired of all that's going on lately, some bomber sending what appears to be fake bombs to "anti-trumpers". And a "never-trumper" shooting up a Jewish synagogue. And time after time, the media would have us choose sides. Like, "do you support blowing up Democrats, or killing Jews?" Well, pick one.

please don't pick one...

But what's the root cause of all this lunacy? Well, I don't know, but I can't help but think everyone's on edge because, well, we're all scared.

What are most people, when they're being really honest, afraid the most about? It's finances.

Finances, period. They aren't afraid of Syria attacking us, they aren't afraid of folks with a different skin colour, or religion. They're afraid, and rightfully so, of the next time they wake up and realize that Wall Street, and Bay Street, and the City of London, etc, have destroyed half of their life's savings.

And chasing dollars is all a sham. Let me show you what I mean.

Here's $5.00

Shiney eh? They're "collector"dollars. Worth a buck each. Backed by nothing but false promises, and a failing military. These will buy a little less than when they were new.

Here's 5 more bucks. From when we lost the Bretton Woods "gold standard"...

These beauties were backed by the promise that the Bank of Canada had gold and silver in reserve. These are now worth about $1.50 CAD to a collector, but the bank's won't take them. These will buy a lot less than when they were new.

Here's $5.00 from a better time.

These dollars are silver, and can each buy what 15 current dollars will buy. No matter what happens in the market, these are still silver.

So what am I getting at?

Well, I can't help but think if people still could save money, actually just save it, and have it not lose value, we'd be a lot less on edge all the time. If people didn't have to always "grow" their investments with fear of losing it, just to hope for a retirement, maybe some of the nervousness could be lifted.

Now I know, we had war, and crime, and all sorts of bad things when we had sound money, but, wars used to end, criminals used to fear the public, and we used to fix the bad things as a society.

So spread the word, you can be your own central bank, and mitigate market turmoil by holding physical precious metals today. And maybe, just maybe, you too will be a bit less on edge in this troubling time.

Or keep plugging away, and hope to build a retirement on the market. Fatten your 401K, RRSP, IRA, etc, and pray that the market never corrects. Always chasing more new dollars, that are always worth a little less, than when you got them.

I know which one I prefer.