A simple murder started one of the greatest wars in history. World War one began as follows, and if you have never heard about the total absurdity of it all, here’s a brief synopsis. On June 14, 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, which led to a frantic month of diplomatic maneuvering […]
A few years ago, in a column I mentioned ‘musical chairs,’ and compared them to paper currencies which have quickly gone down so quickly, that it was impossible to protect one’s self from them. In the game of ‘musical chairs,’ there is one less chair than the number of players. When the music stops, obviously […]
The concept of a maximum speed limit on a highway has always fascinated me. Since everyone on the road has different capabilities and drives a vehicle with different safety and efficiency characteristics, how can the government justify a common maximum speed? If I’m driving a late model sports car with new tires and modern safety […]
On December 23, 1667, a 14.717 acre Island in New York Harbor was sold to Isaac Bedloe. In 1732, his estate sold it to the U.S. Government for an undisclosed price. The island had always been called “Oyster Island,” due to the huge number of oyster beds surrounding it. It was named “Bedloe’s Island” […]
On and on it goes: It’s not difficult to find a site on the internet which will groan and swear that the U.S. economy and dollar is trash, and within a few weeks or months, it’ll all be over. As a WWII general (McAuliffe) replied, when asked to give up and surrender, he gave a […]
On June 17, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed into law, the Smoot-Hawley tariff, which raised import duties an average of 59% on more than 25,000 agricultural commodities and manufactured goods. Remember, a year earlier, the Great Depression began with the stock market crashing, and huge amounts of unemployment. The market crashed again when Smoot-Hawley began, […]
There was supposed to be a GCR (global currency reset) within a few days, and it was supposed to begin last Friday! The dollar index was going to drop a hundred points, and eventually lose 50% of its value. And redemption centers would open so you could get the new money, etc. That’s not all. […]
The Argentina peso currently is 1.7 cents to the dollar, a fraction of most of its former value over the years. Argentines use the peso for so called ‘basic transactions,’ still, but the dollar is the real value, and people store them under mattresses and in savings accounts. The Argentina problem began with former dictator […]
The current question it seems, is if we will go to war with Iran, which is so dumb as to wonder if there is any sanity in that capital of insanity, Washington D.C. The following are quotes from a book I wrote over 30 years ago, and have had re-printed four times, titled, “I Hold […]
The dollar bill has been written and produced by various entities over the years, but especially by railroads in the mid 1800’s. A ‘dollar bill’ back in the days when many steam locomotives burned wood rather than coal, and before the War Between the States, had many values. In many states during this period, almost […]