Category Archives: Out of The Past ~ The Archival Edition

As time allows, we continue to review many previously posted columns and articles from the first generation of several of the family of Kettle Moraine Publications, drawing from in excess of 90,000 published articles – yet many could have been written today. Others were a forewarning of (as H.G. Wells once wrote) “Things to Come.” So today we return to the days of yesteryear, or is it, Back to the Future? C’mon Marty – tell me which it is – or will we even have a future?

Fed’s Dirty Little Secret: “The Gold Isn’t There… Exists as Paper IOU’s”

It is quite interesting to go back in time – specifically to March 16, 2014 – and come up eleven years when this issue has once again come to the forefront. ~ Editor March 16, 2014 ~ The assumption by … Continue reading

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America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People

A new book by economist Peter Temin finds that the U.S. is no longer one country, but dividing into two separate economic and political worlds April 20, 2017 ~ You’ve probably heard the news that the celebrated post-WW II beating … Continue reading

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GOLD – A Valuable Thing to Store!

January 18, 2008 ~ Gold is a valuable thing to store. However, it is not a store of value. Gold has intrinsic properties that make it valuable. However, it does not have intrinsic value. I mention this, because, at some … Continue reading

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The Federal Reserve: 100 Years Of Boom And Bust

December 11, 2013 ~ “If we evaluate an organization’s performance by what it promised when it was created, the Federal Reserve has clearly failed the American people,” is how Murray Sabrin concludes this documentary on the first 100 years of … Continue reading

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Bulls, Bears and PIGS

Artist: MiMo – Wall Street New York – 2015

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Why Base Your Money On Gold? A Simple Answer For First-Timers

November 15, 2017 ~ The United States embraced the principle of a gold standard – a dollar whose value was linked to a defined quantity of gold – from 1789 to 1971, a stretch of 182 years. During this time, … Continue reading

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Even the Government Will Violate You…

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The Moneychangers

Christ Purging the Temple And the Jews’ Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:  And when he had … Continue reading

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Forgotten Anniversary: One Hundred Years of Legal Tender

NOTE: Below has been edited from an Address by Antal E. Fekete, Professor of Money and Banking, San Francisco School of Economics at a Fund-Raising Dinner for the benefit of the Ficino School, Auckland, New Zealand, October 28, 2009. ~ … Continue reading

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The Way it Was – The Plot Against America’s 99%

That is the way it was… during Trump’s FIRST administration in November of 2017. What in the Hell has changed? ~ Editor US President Donald Trump, in partnership with congressional Republicans, is pursuing tax cuts that will blow up the … Continue reading

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