by Ralph Benko | Aug 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 29th, 2013 Historian Pierre Vilar’s A History of Gold and Money: 1450 – 1920 , (NLB, 1976, Verso edition 1984) observes, in his concluding section (p. 344 – 345): “Historical reality is again and again...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, August 27th, 2013 The lore of gold is linked, inextricably, with that of buccaneers. Most died young (and poor). One name stands out for wealth, social prestige, and longevity: Sir Francis Drake. Sir Francis Drake courtesy of Wikipedia...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 Dante, in the Divine Comedy, places counterfeiters at the bottom of the Eighth Circle of Hell to which the souls of those guilty of conscious fraud are consigned. According to the Wikipedia, this is “one of the...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 One of the key recurring themes presented in the work of Lehrman Institute president and founder Lewis E. Lehrman is that policy simply must be evaluated based upon actual performance in “the laboratory of human...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 15th, 2013 January 26, 1972 White House Telephone President Richard Nixon talks to his Secretary of the Treasury, John Connally, about the international monetary situation and the elimination of the Gold Standard for US currency....
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