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way of supporting geopolitics. And Empire Empire joining us for the first time is Dana

Samuelson, president of American Gold Exchange at Amergold.com. The link is in the description. I think

they've been around since 1998. Welcome, Dana. Thank you, Hervor. It's a pleasure to be here with you today.

Yeah, gold. Gold is always great subject that makes me think of the Austin Powers movie. I love

gold. Can you tell us a bit about the work that you do? Well, we are a national, physical,

precious metals dealer here in the U.S. We're a mail order company. So we deliver

all over in the U.S. We don't deliver internationally just to stay in the U.S. We deal on the most

widely traded, competitively priced, most widely recognized and most important for our clients,

easily sellable physical precious metals

bullion gold bullion silver bullion platinum and platoidium coins and bars most of the

business we do is in sovereign minted one ounce gold coins which are really just you know round

bars made by governments instead of square bars made

by refineries. And we make a buy-sell market in those. And I'm also a vintage U.S. gold and

European gold coin expert, so I'm a coin nerd as well. I know a lot about U.S. gold and silver coins since the U.S.

MEND opened in 1793.

And, you know, the fascinating thing about being involved in the precious metals industry is,

you know, gold is just a rock.

So its value is driven by external events.

And there's always something going on that's interesting

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