I don’t think so. A piece on Le Metrople Cafe is making the rounds, and I think it must be rebutted. The piece was written by a very reputable numismatic coin dealer, first of all, so the ax to grind is obvious. Numismatics dealers have to mark up their inventory, as a matter of staying […]

270 years ago today, George Washington was born.  I celebrate this great man’s valor, leadership, humbleness, and opinions.  As America seems determined to get into foreign conflicts, from which nothing good can come, I urge a re-reading of Washington’s comments.  There is no space for but a few of them, but neutrality was his advice […]

President Bush was recently in Japan. He offered homilies to the Japanese, and his best wishes, but this will have no effect in the dreadful depression that now engulfs them. The Japanese look to government for help, to escape their economic miseries. Americans look to givernment. The Germans looked to Hitler, and the Japanese looked […]

Let’s see now, the Japanese are buying gold like it is going out of style, carrying bags of yen to gold shops, and asking, “How much gold will this buy?” Dubya is spending, like there is no tomorrow. $356 million to get the Peace Corps going again, $48 billion for more guns, planes, and uniforms, […]

(For Joy Foundation, which I mentioned last week, I forgot to mention the name of the rep. Call Paul Nystrom, at 1-970-249-1902 if you are interested) The first paper money in history was made in China, in the 1200’s. Kubla Khan, the Chinese ruler, manufactured paper money from mulberry bark. Marco Polo wrote, “All these […]