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 live, and guess what?  They are all Muslim nations.  I never would have guessed.  (not much).  […]

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 years.  Oh Dear!  Even some ‘moderate’ Republicans seem to be a bit worried about it.  Hey guys, is […]

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?  Because they require capital, machinery, exploration, etc. to produce, and their rarity has caused gold and silver […]

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 B.C., “History repeats itself.”  Between 1600 and 1700, Holland, and especially Amsterdam, was one of the richest nations and […]

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 coins.  But there are two sides to the deal, which some investors are calling highway […]