Coupled with this demand is the reduction in the supply of gold scrap for recycling. What are investors’ routes to owning the commodity? Some use exchange-traded funds such as ETF Securities’ Gold Bullion Securities. Shares in these can be bought and sold via stockbrokers, as with any other shares. Another route is through trading platforms such as The Real Asset Company (therealasset.co.uk) or BullionVault (bulllionvault.com), where gold bullion can be bought or sold Read more [...]

Syracuse, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner has left the Syracuse area at least 23 times since last June, when she was appointed co-chair of the New York State Democratic Committee, according to her calendar. Miner's opponents have called her a part-time mayor and made an issue of one taxpayer-funded business trip to New York City that strayed into after-hours politics. Miner, who is running for re-election, supplied a copy of her official business calendar and expense records in response to a Freedom Read more [...]

Those pesky little annoyances On Sept. 11, 2001, America was put in a situation of disbelief, chaos, sadness and fear. For a time we were in a panic and reached out to our … posted: September 07 Read more [...]

Ask me a question. Follow @mrpeabod Google Plus CHARLOTTE, September 7, 2013 – If someone asked you, “How many countries are there in the world?” how would you answer?     It’s a simple question.  Or is it?  A Read more [...]

It’s not new and it’s not a river, but the New River is cause for celebrations across four London boroughs this month as the 400th anniversary of its opening is marked. Never heard of it? Many haven’t. Yet it still supplies drinking water to London and it’s possible to walk nearly its entire length, thanks to Thames Water opening the New River Path to the public. Delve into its history even a little and it becomes clear that making the New River happen was a huge and imaginative feat of Read more [...]