by Ralph Benko | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Krugman Caricature under creative commons license from DonkeyHotey Originally posted on Monday, July 14th, 2014 On July 6th, Nobel economics laureate and Princeton Professor launched, in the New York Times, one of his occasional polemics, entitled Conservative...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Posted on Thursday, July 10th, 2014 Written by Ralph J. Benko The Heritage Foundation’s Backgrounders long have been considered “the gold standard” of policy analysis by the center right policy community in the nation’s capital. Now Heritage...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, July 10th, 2014 The Heritage Foundation’s Backgrounders long have been considered “the gold standard” of policy analysis by the center right policy community in the nation’s capital. Now Heritage has issued a...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Posted on Monday, July 7th, 2014 Written by Ralph J. Benko Paper currency, undefined by and inconvertible to precious metal, preferably gold, has a long history of abuse and pernicious consequences. The abuses of paper money, then known as “bills of...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
1764 Pennsylvania 3-pence paper money, printed by B. Franklin Originally posted on Monday, July 7th, 2014 Paper currency, undefined by and inconvertible to precious metal, preferably gold, has a long history of abuse and pernicious consequences. The abuses of paper...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 Written by Ralph J. Benko Some of the standard fundamental denominations of gold by weight are grains and pennyweights. “Pennyweight” has an interesting, and significant, back story. According to Wikipedia: In the Middle...
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