We are mostly enraged at Biden goofing up hideously in the Afghanistan exodus, so I am now going to make your day a bit nicer…I hope. I wrote this a long time ago, and it isn’t dated, but undoubtedly in 2001 or earlier. Once, a long time ago in the fair city of Philadelphia, lived […]
‘Rag baby,’ was the commonly used nick-name for the greenback dollar, which was the North’s ‘dollar’ in the War Between the States, commonly called the ‘Civil War.’ The rag content of that paper dollar was so high, that the term ‘rag baby’ was born. Frank Bellew, a cartoonist popular in the 1860’s penned a rag […]
First things first, or at least as far back as will illustrate the current absurdity. Remember “Y2K?” That was years ago, when the calendar changed from 1999 t0 2000. ‘OMG, the computers will not do that. They will think it is zero, not 20o0, and everything will crash. All the computers will freeze, and we’ll […]
“Well, suppose they confiscate my gold just like Roosevelt did 75 (88) years ago?” If I have heard that once, I must have heard it a hundred times. Did Roosevelt confiscate everyone’s gold back in 1933? If he did, how come there’s still a lot of it for sale in a thousand coin shops and […]
First line from a column I wrote August 1, 2002: “Gold broke $300 this morning.” Maybe this line will make you realize the folly of storing surplus wealth in dollars. Whenever there are improvements in anything, the manufacturers, sellers, parts dealers, and those who repair the items, lose their jobs. When diesel-electric locomotives became 100% […]