by Ralph Benko | Nov 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 Political challenges to the gold standard have a colorful history. The campaigns of William Jennings Bryan remain the, well, gold standard, for color. In the Boston Globe Katherine Whittemore, in an October 27th review...
by Ralph Benko | Nov 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Thursday, November 08, 2012 Share “Throughout the 19th century, Britain presided over a tenfold rise in global trade under the classical Gold Standard.” In the Winter 2011-12 issue of Finest Hour, a journal of Churchill studies, there...
by Ralph Benko | Nov 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Tuesday, November 06, 2012 Share A key issue in restoring the gold standard is the determination of the new definitional price of the currency in gold. If the price is set too high it will cause some level of inflationary surge. If the price is set...
by Ralph Benko | Nov 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 Free market blogger Katie Kieffer (“Presenting young professionals with choices through engagement in public policy”) treats the world to her sister Amie’s cartoon of a Halloween costume. The Gold...
by Ralph Benko | Nov 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Thursday, November 01, 2012 Share So how exactly is gold extracted from gold ore? The Primus Report recently gave an elegant account: So how do you purify the gold? More importantly do you have enough gold to make the process worth while? Most folks...
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