Category Archives: The History of it All

There were more than 100 gold Roman coins discovered in a buried hoard in the Cressoni theatre in Como, north of Milan. What I have examined from the photographs supplied to me, is that this is a hoard from the … Continue reading →

Hmmmmm – not such a bad idea – huh?

The Chart attached below shows the Annualized Confederate Inflation Rate. The Annual Inflation Rates are calculated from information provided by the Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee on the purchasing power of Confederate Notes. The table below shows the actual Confederate … Continue reading →

Originally published on the Federal Observer, April 21, 2009. Maybe it’s coming ’round again. ~ J.B. April 21, 2009 – You spend your entire adult life living life the right way. You buy a car on ‘time’, you pay your … Continue reading →

In the mid-1960s, money manager George J.W. Goodman began to write a series of irreverent and witty columns for New York magazine under the borrowed name of capitalism’s founding theorist, Adam Smith. As “Adam Smith,” Goodman went on to write … Continue reading →

A global currency is not a new idea, but it may soon get a new lease of life ~ Foreword ~ In 1998 this Rothschild owned publication claimed we will be under a global currency by 2018. They also correctly … Continue reading →

Hyperinflation occurs when a country experiences very high rates of inflation, which erodes the real value of the local currency, and causes the population to minimize their holdings of local money. It is argued that hyperinflation often occurs as a … Continue reading →

Weimar Germany after World War One went through one of the worst hyperinflations in history, unleashing untold horrors on the German people and their economy. Memories of Weimar still haunt the eurozone today. The European Central Bank, widely considered to … Continue reading →

Although there are countless scourges which in general debilitate kingdoms, principalities, and republics, the four most important (in my judgment) are dissension, [abnormal] mortality, barren soil, and debasement of the currency. The first three are so obvious that nobody is … Continue reading →

Gold confiscation is a subject that divides gold investors. Some say it won’t happen again and others say it will happen again. The one thing they tend to agree on is that they don’t want it to happen again. One … Continue reading →