No doubt most of you know all about the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, otherwise known as GATA, founded in the late 1990s by my two dear friends Bill Murphy and Chris Powell. I freely contribute to Bill’s website (lemetropolecafe.com), arguably the best place on the planet to get solid input from an army of free market proponents, and it remains the premier site (and probably one of the last) to offer unbiased commentary on capital markets that either complement or compete with the precious metals narrative. The first time I met with Bill Murphy on a one-on-one basis was in Toronto during the PDAC Conference in around 2006, and after a particularly grueling day of meetings, we agreed to meet at Hy’s on Adelaide Street at the piano bar, after which we decided that since we both had early meetings, we would have a nightcap and retire to bed. Unfortunately for the two of us, since we were both former professional athletes (albeit briefly), our backgrounds in hockey (mine) and football (Bill’s) led us down a path of commonality, in that very few men in the world of business had reached a level of achievement like we did.