Actually, the dollar is still worth a dollar, but it's purchasing power is less. This is an important semantical distinction. [ATTACH]
Agreed. It’s the system as designed and operating. Whether one agrees with it or not is actually immaterial.
This was an amusing anecdote until you said he's 25 yrs old. Then it became an cautionary indictment of an educational system. Good luck. ;)
43 and collecting for about 31 years.
Also to the OP, a Jefferson nickel is not actually ‘clad’. It’s an alloy metal coin. sorry for the pedantry.
I'm starting to hone my eye for super GEM early business strike clad Washington quarters. I've been digging through mint sets looking for them...
Given the average lifespan for my wife's direct ancestors and mine, I plan on making sure my sons are knowledgeable about my collection as I am...
nice find...but we need more details.
The original argument was about government ‘control’ not some private agreement/bureaucracy. By right of the US Constitution, government has...
But you’ve proven the point that we’re not interested in complete libertarianism of land ownership and use. Maybe the next guy thinks your...
About $600 for a PCGS VF-30 1921 Standing Liberty quarter.
Anything? That all night outdoor auto repair operation is going to be very convenient next door.
The part where you call taxes 'rent'. That is a gross misunderstanding of reality as taxes are funds collected by the representative government...
Would you like you neighbor to be able to do as he pleases with his land and build a couple pig manure storage ponds next to you? And you'd...
Except that's a complete misunderstanding of reality. You can certainly own real estate free and clear, but if you that property to be part of a...
Do you like using that street in front of your house that directly connects to thousands of miles of other streets for free? (as one example)
Oh my god. Let it go, all of you. You’re just talking past each other. Some people like big cities despite the ebb and flow. Some don’t....
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Chicago is a good location for all the previously stated reasons but also the metro is ~9million population so the show starts with a huge ‘local’...
I'm attending with my 12 (almost 13) yr old son on Saturday. This will be a first time for either of us as we just moved to Chicagoland and are...
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