by Ralph Benko | Mar 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Monday, March 26, 2012 Share Ben Bernanke, in his recent GWU speech, succinctly stated the core trauma narrative that lies at the heart of the well-intended elite hostility toward the gold standard: the belief that it caused the great depression From...
by Ralph Benko | Mar 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 Is Ben Bernanke the world’s savior? Or … simply an elite civil servant gamely — valorously, even — attempting to do the impossible? “Savior” seems to be the position taken, to be sure...
by Ralph Benko | Mar 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted Monday, March 19, 2012 Share Catastrophic. What if federal interest obligations were, suddenly, to double — or worse? The Wall Street Journal, in its lead March 12 Review and Outlook, “Uncle Sam’s Teaser Rate” observes: If...
by Ralph Benko | Mar 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 Professor Lawrence White addresses and neatly dispels the confusion shown, even by certain political aspirants, as to the sufficiency of American gold stocks on which to base a restoration of the classical gold standard....
by Ralph Benko | Mar 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2012 An urban legend attributes to Albert Einstein a declaration that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Right thought. Wrong source. As author Sylvia Nasar notes in her lovely Grand Pursuit: The...
by Ralph Benko | Mar 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Originally posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 It was March, 1851 and gold had recently been discovered about 30 miles south of here on the Scott River. A group of six men… while striking camp the next morning, Thompson observed something extraordinary. Because...
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