by Ralph Benko | Jan 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Image courtesy of 8Gold.org Originally posted on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 The British Broadcasting Company’s World Service News Magazine recently published something of a breakthrough article by its presenter Justin Rowlatt. Rowlatt explains, with great...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 Both Lord Keynes and Sir Isaac Newton were important paradigm shifters. Newton in 1712, portrait by Sir James Thornhill, courtesy of Wikipedia Newton not only founded modern classical physics. He also was, as Master...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Monday, January 6th, 2014 Christians, worldwide, celebrate January 6th as “the feast of the Epiphany” … in commemoration of the “Three Wise Men” who followed a star and gave gifts to the infant Jesus. One of which,...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Friday, January 3rd, 2014 Notwithstanding Paul Krugman’s obsessive derogation of the gold standard — and a recent bungled attempt by Prof. Krugman to enlist Adam Smith as an authority for his position — James Tassie‘s...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 New York Times columnist Paul Krugman again turns his attention, again, in Bits and Barbarism, to the gold standard (and Bitcoin). Photo courtesy of Wikipedia He concludes: “What’s really happening is a determined...
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