Postcards From the Fringe

In this week’s mailbag edition, Tom revisits the Dow-to-Gold ratio… clarifies his idea of cash… and assuages worries about online gold sales...

Tom and his family are going through his late mother’s home and deciding what to do with her belongings. Through this process, Tom learns that antique furniture is in a “Great Depression”...

Tom and his family have decided to spend the next four months in London to close Tom’s late mother’s estate. It’s part of what they call “world-schooling”...

In this week’s edition of Tom’s Mailbag, readers wonder about a global economic collapse… the best gold mining companies to own... and the retirement benefit of Whole-Life insurance…

Since his divorce, mental breakdown, and job loss in 2018, Tom has been on a mission to live life to the fullest, one day at time. Today, he carries on that mission with his wife and kids, healed, happy, and deeply fulfilled…

Tom and his family continue to sort through his late mother’s belongings. He’s noticed all of the items she’s kept in storage have been vinyls, CDs, hand-written notes, and boxes of paper documents… items in their physical form. But in today’s world, items are more often stored in digital files, on the Cloud…

In this week's mailbag, readers want to know what kind of gold Tom is buying... whether gold ETFs are a good investment... and why he says he hopes his kids never go to college...