Category Archives: The History of it All

Even though inflation is a hot topic these days, it’s been around forever. Not all prices rise at the same rate, though, so it’s fun to see what prices were like generations ago. By looking at prices from way back … Continue reading →

Gold Money Is the Root of All Good; Paper Money Is the Root of All Evil ~ A Blueprint for a New Gold Coin Standard ~ Millions of people who have read Ayn Rand’s 1957 monumental work “Atlas Shrugged” must … Continue reading →

The tale of the Confederate gold, lost somewhere in the depths of South Carolina’s history, has intrigued historians, treasure hunters, and enthusiasts alike for over a century and a half. This story is not just about lost treasure; it represents … Continue reading →

What You Should have learned in School and at Home In order for you to understand what happened to our economy we have to travel back in time to Frankfurt, Germany. The event is the birth of Mayer Amshel Bauer … Continue reading →

The structure of Charles Ponzi’s scheme must have impressed the policy makers coming of age in the 1930s, because they would use the same structure for the nation’s new Social Security system. When Charles Ponzi’s investment opportunity to sell international … Continue reading →

Andrew Jackson stares down the national bank and wins. On July l0, 1832, President Andrew Jackson sent a message to the United States Senate. He returned unsigned, with his objections, a bill that extended the charter of the Second Bank … Continue reading →

The hoax’s never seem to end… It was May, 1864. Grant was closing in on Lee in Virginia. New Yorkers were growing hopeful that the long, terrible ordeal of the Civil War would soon be over. But their hopes were … Continue reading →

Perhaps carefully planning ahead or rushed in a moment of panic, someone in Viking-age Denmark buried their treasure and never returned. A volunteer stumbled upon the artifacts 1,000 years later. Jane Foged-Mønster went out with a metal detecting group to … Continue reading →

Archaeologists have discovered wooden defenses surrounding an ancient Roman military base for the first time in Bad Ems, western Germany. The fence, which is topped with sharpened wooden stakes similar to barbed wire, is the type of fortification mentioned in … Continue reading →

United States (1930s) “The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history. . . But we act as though we are able to predict historical events, or, even worse, as if we are able to … Continue reading →