The fired workers at the Electrolux plant in Greenville  Michigan aren’t too happy with NAFTA, and I trust that the rest of America isn’t either.  Electrolux makes refrigerators, and at one time was the largest maker of them in the entire US, not counting their vacuum cleaners.  Michigan alone has lost over 200,000 manufacturing jobs […]

I ’ll always remember where I was, as will you.  My friend Paul called me and asked me if I were watching TV.  I wasn’t, but turned it on immediately.  I won’t soon forget, and neither will any of you.  It was shocking, appalling, disgusting, and revolting.  But it was perhaps one of the biggest […]

The free coinage or silver and gold had been adopted in 1792. This meant that anyone could take gold or silver to the mint, and have it coined. A silver dollar would have a dollar’s worth of silver, and the much smaller gold coin would have a dollar’s worth of gold in it. Gold’s price […]