by Ralph Benko | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 Writing last April in the UK’s Telegraph about “Gold, Currency Debasement, and the Fall of the Roman Empire,” journalist James Delingpole quotes from anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, July 25th, 2013 When Michelangelo succeeded to the position of architect-in-general to the Pope… and with it, the work of erecting St. Peter’s Basilica — he expressed his outrage at the deformation of the plan of its...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 Smithsonian Magazine reports a fascinating new scientific theory as to where gold originated: colliding stars. Artist rendering by Dana Berry courtesy of NASA On June 3, 3.9 billion light-years away, two incredibly...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, July 18th, 2013 The downward movement in the gold price brings to mind the old miner’s ballad, Oh My Darling Clementine. In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty niner, And his daughter Clementine Oh my...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 What were what Keynes called the “vague and jejune meditations” of Churchill’s advisors from the “imaginary academic world?” Courtesy of Wikipedia What persuaded Churchill to undertake the catastrophic blunder, in 1925, of...
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