by Ralph Benko | Sep 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 The December 2012 – January 2013 issue of the American Spectator published an article by Lehrman Institute founder and president Lewis E. Lehrman entitled Money and Oil. Image courtesy of Wikipedia At the time of...
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...
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