Delightful "Coin Community"? Perhaps look up "Community, Identity, Stability" too? Curious that you assume I have not. Anyone can contact me...
Actually there is a big worry you seem to miss. TINA. If anyone knows of a serious numismatic discussion group I would be interested to hear - I...
L. just drew my attention to this passage from Livy: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_5 see section 48 As he...
Many thanks - that is exactly my understanding too. And its troubling to me. Here are some further thoughts. Bishop Berkeley wrote "The...
I don’t think its that simple Doug. Back when maybe 80% of world gold stocks were in Fort Knox then surely the US had a lot of control over its...
I would say so. Seems to me you missed the fact I posted that about 6 months ago – and this group being surely fluid – I thought to drop by and...
No support? No criticism? Am I maybe the only person here who understands the operation of the economy these days? Anyhow - since I just typed up...
Oh Brave New World! I would say the “central problem” here is what Arthur Marwick in 1970 called the industrialisation of history. He sought to...
Hello Anthony Many thanks indeed! Since this account comes 200 years after the event, I shall allow myself to read a little between the lines....
Can anyone assist? I have been browsing this text from Richard Cumberland of 1685...
I am certainly no expert – but that is not my understanding of QE. My understanding is that the bonds are not being in the main being bought by...
I assume the US situation is similar to the UK (QE etc). Except of course that the very clever Gordon Brown sold all “our” UK gold – (not that we...
Thanks for raising an important matter (at last!). On my general positions - it seems likely to me that if we went back onto gold there would be...
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