In Memoriam: Richard O. Howe

May 4, 1915 – November 7, 2006 Memorial Service, Hamilton Chapel, Belmont Hill School, April 26, 2007 Remarks of Reginald H. Howe When Belmont Hill opened with 43 boys in the fall of 1923, Dad was eight — one of three students in the third grade, the...

Free Gold: Grease the Banks

(L’utilisation potentielle de l’or comme monnaie d’échange par l’industrie pétrolière) [Note: Prepared remarks by RHH for Gold Rush 21, The GATA Gold Conference, August 8-9, 2005, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada] Good Morning. Bonjour. The Gold...

In Memoriam Ferdinand Lips

In Memoriam Lips   Ferdinand Lips, who passed away last month in his native Zurich, was a strong supporter of The Golden Sextant and a personal friend of its editors. Indeed, the website takes its name from its founder’s essay of the same title which won...

Déjà Vu: Central Banks at the Abyss

The first Washington Agreement on Gold, announced in September 1999 at the close of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C., placed limits for the next five years on the official gold sales of the signatories as well...