by Ralph Benko | Aug 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Share July 31st was the anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone, in 1792, for first U.S. government building: U.S. Mint in Philadelphia (and on the site of an abandoned whiskey distillery). And, by strange coincidence,...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Friday, August 24th, 2012 “…there must have been a moment when Indians suddenly realized that beads were basically worth nothing, and they’d been trading all this valuable stuff for them.” In the July 23, 2012 New Yorker,...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Saturday, August 11, 2012 Share ‘Knaves assure, and fools believe, that calling paper ‘money’ and making it a tender is the way to be rich and happy….’ The biographical directory of the United States Congress recites...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Thursday, August 09, 2012 Share “…knavish tricks, will turn vice into legal virtue; and will sanctify iniquity by law.” The papers of America’s founders are replete with acute criticism of paper money not convertible to a fixed weight of gold. ...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Tuesday, August 07, 2012 Share “At the constitutional convention the founding fathers explicitly voted not to grant the national government the power to emit bills of credit….” A recent posting here praised the erudite Prof....
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