by Ralph Benko | May 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Share The National Geographic‘s Gold: The True Cost of a Global Obsession … … contains a very picturesque story: “Juan Apaza is possessed by gold. Descending into an icy tunnel 17,000 feet up in the...
by Ralph Benko | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, May 09, 2013 Share1 The South China Morning Post recently reported, in an article headlined Kunming Mother sues US Central Bank over shrinking cash, that: A woman in Kunming, Yunnan province, is trying to sue the United States central...
by Ralph Benko | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 The Spring/Summer 2012 issue of The Cato Journal is devoted to the topic of “Monetary Reform in the Wake of Crisis.” It contains sixteen articles by distinguished thought leaders such as Robert B. Zoellick,...
by Ralph Benko | May 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 “To me by far the most interesting phase of our foreign examinations was the personal inquiry made of the actual managers of these great banks, for the purpose of ascertaining the precise details of the practical workings...
by Ralph Benko | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 “Napoleon … called the attention of the representative of the Bank of France to the fact that the success and permanence of that institution were of equal or even greater consequence … to the people of France than the...
by Ralph Benko | Apr 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, April 25th, 2013 Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, an extremely influential political leader of his era, popularly called “General Manager of the Nation” (and ancestor of Vice President Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller), addressed the...
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