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 there are.  All this outrage came a month after 17 students and adults were killed in a Parkland Florida high school […]

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 though, because we need to know where the dollars originate, other than from a printing press, which is not a […]

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 no one wins in a trade war, which may or may not be true.  Trump […]

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 1861, the North, needing money to finance the civil war it started, authorized the issuance of what came to be known as […]