From the Grand Junction (Colorado) Sentinel, surely not typical of other places, where real estate has gone up much more. “During the period between 1993 and 2002, home prices in the Grand Junction area grew at a much faster rate than per capita personal income, according to a Daily Sentinel analysis. In 1993, per capita […]

So far, so good with the banks, OK? They had a holiday, and 1200 of them never re-opened, which is as it should have been. They had loaned out depositors’ money, and the loans defaulted. Hard times. Turn the clock back close to 20 years before that, and see what happened. A central bank was […]

We have so far progressed to the banking and coinage situation until FDR came into office. Before FDR, it was pretty honest, above board, and easily understood. Banks stored your gold or paper money, and one could write checks on the deposited funds, or redeem your paper money for gold. Silver coinage was honest also, […]

We all use a bank, or sometimes more than one. Banks allow us to write and mail checks, hold credit cards, borrow dollars, or save them, (if one could be so stupid), in relative safety. How did banks get started? Let’s examine it. Originally of course, “money” was gold and silver, and it still is. […]