321gold’s Bob Moriarty salutes the brains behind that great resource, wife Barbara Moriarty, who’s retiring.
“Not a lot of people fully understand the dynamics behind 321gold.com. Barbara and I started the website in the summer of 2001 convinced that gold and silver were at a bottom and the financial system was fixing to come unglued. Well, gold and silver were at a bottom. Saying the financial system is coming unglued is no longer a prediction; you can watch it in living color daily.
From the beginning ten and a half years ago, Barbara was the backbone of the site. She designed it. She built it and she maintained it. I may be the guy visible at gold shows and with the byline but don’t be confused, Barbara was the brains.
But living with doom and gloom daily gets tiring. We are not as young as we used to be and she wanted out. She has worked practically every day and given everything to the site. It’s time for her to focus more on her and her family.
The transition will be mostly seamless but her sense of humor and adding brightness to every day will be missed. Rarely in life will you come across anyone as kind or thoughtful. I’ve been married to her for 21 years and I only regret not having met her forty years ago. I’ve known a number of interesting people in my life but of all the people I have ever known, Barbara was the most intelligent and the bravest. And the most loving of all people.
She will be missed.
Comment:
321gold would be on anyone’s top five of the most invaluable resources for information about gold for as long as I’ve been following the financial crisis (since 2004-5). For me, it’s always been the first place I looked. Bob Moriarty is also a writer whom I trust for accurate and un-hyped information. I never got the impression he was giving anything but his honest opinion. Most others are pumping something they’re paid to pump. Apart from Bob Moriarty, I also pay attention to Nadeem Walayat of Market Oracle, among many others. (I have no relationship with either of these two individuals)
I’ve never herd or 321gold before? I tell you what though, gold has absolutely sky-rocketed. In fact, the fiat currency we all rely on is only worth as much as the central banks determine it to be. Gold and silver on the other hand, hold their value based on quality and quantity. Fiat currency will never be able to do that.
321gold has some good links to commentary. But like alot of folks in this space, lots of links to anti-semetic rants and conspiracy theorys.
Maybe they linked to the organ-selling racket in Israel, which kind of verges on blood libel, from some people’s point of view.
Maybe, in context, it was. It’s one reason I didn’t link that story. People trade organs everywhere, in India too.
It’s like the Catholic church pedophilia story. Pedophilia is rife across all institutions and its causes are other than anything specifically Catholic, including vows of celibacy..although tendentious critics use it that way.
On the other hand, Israel is so powerfully and incessantly defended by mainstream politicians, I understand the temptation to throw everything you have at it.
I don’t call that anti-Semitism. I call that rage and frustration.
Are Holocaust survivors who dished out sometimes inaccurate or over-broad characterizations of the Germans anti-German necessarily? Or just being human? The latter, I think.
Great wrongs create great rage.
If pro-Israeli forces were underrepresented and weren’t powerful across the board as they actually are (financially and in the media and in the military), I would worry about it.
These days I only worry about whichever country is going to be the next target of the powers that be.
India and Sri Lanka are my guess