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...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Horace White. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Originally posted on Thursday, January 30th, 2014 Horace White, on June 20 1893, addressed the Congress of Bankers and Financiers at Chicago. His topic, “The Gold Standard. How it came into the world and why it will...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 On January 13th, the Senate’s #2 Republican, John Cornyn (R-Tx)… Sen. John Cornyn Official Portrait … and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Tx), chairman of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, published an...
by Ralph Benko | Jan 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
McKinley Campaign Lapel Pin courtesy of Ithaca College Originally posted on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 The first volume of a history of a new, reportedly definitive, work on the Beatles, Tune In, by Mark Lewisohn, begins with a brief introduction to … British...
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