by Ralph Benko | Mar 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 Professor Lawrence White addresses and neatly dispels the confusion shown, even by certain political aspirants, as to the sufficiency of American gold stocks on which to base a restoration of the classical gold standard....
by Ralph Benko | Mar 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2012 An urban legend attributes to Albert Einstein a declaration that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Right thought. Wrong source. As author Sylvia Nasar notes in her lovely Grand Pursuit: The...
by Ralph Benko | Mar 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 It was March, 1851 and gold had recently been discovered about 30 miles south of here on the Scott River. A group of six men… while striking camp the next morning, Thompson observed something extraordinary. Because...
by Ralph Benko | Mar 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Saturday, March 03, 2012 Share “Archimedes jumped out of the tub and rushed home naked, crying with a loud voice … “Eureka, eureka” = “I have found (it), I have found (it)”. from THE TEN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE DE ARCHITECTURA LIBRI DECEM...
by Ralph Benko | Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Monday, February 27th, 2012 There is tragedy in the world because men contrive, out of nothings, tragedies that are totally unnecessary—which means that men are frivolous. —Henry de Montherlant, La Rose de Sable (Epigram to The Monetary Sin of the...
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