by Ralph Benko | Feb 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
1912 Olympic Gold Medal courtesy of AmericanHeritage1.com Originally posted on Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 Olympic gold medals are silver with just a patina of gold. The last solid gold gold medal was awarded in 1912. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette notes in a story...
by Ralph Benko | Feb 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Originally posted on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 There has long been a dispute as to whether Keynes’s attribution to Lenin of the statement that “the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the...
by Ralph Benko | Feb 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Image courtesy of nationalcurrencyfoundation.org Originally posted on Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 George Washington, in a letter to Edmund Pendleton, Esq, dated Nov. 1, 1779 made an passionate critique of the “depreciation of our Money.” General Washington...
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