by Ralph Benko | Aug 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 8th, 2013 William Jennings Bryan, famous orator and leader of the prairie populist movement, ran for president, and lost, on the platform of free coinage of silver at 16 to one — and against the gold standard — three...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, August 6th, 2013 Charles Dawes was one of the truly great men of his era. Inaugurated, under Coolidge, in 1925 as 30th Vice President of the United States (and serving contentiously, Dawes being a far better money man than politician), he...
by Ralph Benko | Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, August 1st, 2013 “ARISTOPHANES,” says the Harvard Classics, was “the greatest of comic writers in Greek and, in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013 Writing last April in the UK’s Telegraph about “Gold, Currency Debasement, and the Fall of the Roman Empire,” journalist James Delingpole quotes from anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, July 25th, 2013 When Michelangelo succeeded to the position of architect-in-general to the Pope… and with it, the work of erecting St. Peter’s Basilica — he expressed his outrage at the deformation of the plan of its...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 Smithsonian Magazine reports a fascinating new scientific theory as to where gold originated: colliding stars. Artist rendering by Dana Berry courtesy of NASA On June 3, 3.9 billion light-years away, two incredibly...
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