by Ralph Benko | Jul 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, July 11th, 2013 Lord Keynes, wrote, in 1925, “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill” — a trenchant critique of Churchill’s 1925 resumption of the gold standard at pre-war parities (around 10% above prevailing price levels). Image...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 George Gilder, the living author most quoted by President Reagan, has published a new and amazing work, Knowledge and Power: the Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing our World. Gilder, author of...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 Walter Kirn, novelist, essayist and critic, presents a memoir of having been gulled by impostor Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a/k/a “Clark Rockefeller” in the June 10 & 17, 2013 of the New Yorker. While I...
by Ralph Benko | Jun 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, June 27th, 2013 Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet (22 January 1570/1 – 6 May 1631), Wikipedia teaches us, “was an English antiquarian and Member of Parliament, founder of the important Cotton library.” Sir Robert Bruce...
by Ralph Benko | Jun 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 The prolific AEI writer James Pethokoukis recently devoted a blog, A return to the gold standard. Please, stop. Here’s a much better idea. to criticizing the gold standard (and promoting Scott Sumner’s...
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