by Ralph Benko | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, July 18th, 2013 The downward movement in the gold price brings to mind the old miner’s ballad, Oh My Darling Clementine. In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty niner, And his daughter Clementine Oh my...
by Ralph Benko | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 What were what Keynes called the “vague and jejune meditations” of Churchill’s advisors from the “imaginary academic world?” Courtesy of Wikipedia What persuaded Churchill to undertake the catastrophic blunder, in 1925, of...
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...
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