Don's Column
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Mass Protests
Friday, March 23, 2018, saw hundreds of thousands of protesters parading across America. They were everywhere, protesting guns, the NRA, and demanding new laws, as if there weren’t enough already, which I am certain...
The Dollar (Part 3)
What are dollars anyway? The simplest definition, is that dollars are money. Money we have to use to pay our debts, thanks to ‘legal tender laws,’ which require this. This is not a total definition...
Tariffs
More on the dollar next week! President Trump is levying a 25% tariff on steel, and 10% tariff on aluminum. Rinos (Republicans in name only), and many Democrats are screaming that it will start a trade war, and they say...
The Dollar (Part 2)
Although experiments with paper money did occur throughout the early history of the country, they were largely unsuccessful. People, for good reason, didn’t trust the notes and preferred gold and silver coin. In...
The Dollar (Part One)
In The history of the dollar, or for that matter, silver coins, goes back to the time before Jesus! In BC 425-401 in Phoenicia, small silver coins with five towers on one side and horsemen on the other, were struck, and...
The Krugerrand
In May of 1975, I sold the Grand Imperial Hotel in tiny Silverton Colorado for six times what I had in it, and took a 30 year note back, which meant that I didn’t have to work any more. I was 41, and that didn’t...
The Silver Scam Continues
The phone rings, and it is an old customer who lives a few miles from me. Peter asks if he can bother me for a few minutes. “Certainly! Come on by.” Peter comes by, doesn’t want to buy...
Pump and Dump
The stock market has done a bit of correction in the last week or so. About 7%, as a matter of fact. To me, who doesn’t own a single share, it was to be expected. “Whatever goes up, must come...
Illinois Economics
Economics is the backbone of every business, individual, and state. Without excellent ratios between buyers and sellers, and government expenditures and tax receipts, bankruptcy will surely be threatened. With that in...
Get Rich Scheme
Everyone wants to be rich! There are thousands of web sites, advertisements, and other come-ons by con artists, who for a fee, (of course), will divulge to you the means they used to corner the market on stuff, open a sure...
The Bundy Affair
You may remember that the Bundys were charged twice about having their cattle grazing on ‘federal’ land without paying for it. They went to court twice and were found not guilty twice, and ‘with...
Over 95,894 pages
That book would be difficult to read, and especially if a new page were added every two hours and nine minutes. That is according to a publication called “Ten Thousand Commandments,” published yearly by the...
UNICEF and Afghanistan
This morning on NPR, a weepy UNICEF woman was bemoaning the fact that there are close to 50 million kids in the world, who are either starving, disease ridden, or abandoned. She itemized the nations in which these kids...
Big Deficit
Now that Republicans have gotten the tax reduction bill passed and signed, It’s interesting to note that Democratic critics are deeply worried that the national debt may be increased by a trillion dollars in the next ten...
Bitcoin Again...
The bubble escalates. As of Friday, December 15, 2017, a brass coin was selling for over $19,000. A coin which has no physical value, as do gold and silver coins. Why do gold and silver coins have value? ...
A Bit of History
The funny thing about history, is that, as was said in “A Handbook of English Proverbs,” in 1855, “He that would know what shall be, must consider what hath been.” Or maybe from Thucydides in 410...
Proofs
This is going be an easy one to compose, because all I have to do is quote from a Wall Street Journal column of 11/27/2017. It begins as follows: “The U.S. Mint makes a pretty penny selling gold and silver...
We Are Losing America
America as it was a 150 years ago, would be unrecognizable, if were someone resurrected today. America of 1867, as an example, had federal spending of about $45 per citizen per year, not derived from taxes. Today, the...
Charity or Government
An article in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago, told of a man named Kenneth Griffin who has donated $125 million to his favorite charity, in this case the University of Chicago’s economics department. ...
China's Sudden Growth
Whenever something happens quite suddenly, there is usually a reason. If a tire suddenly goes flat, there’s probably a nail in it. Clouds may mean rain or snow, and when a store wants to move slow merchandise,...
