Tax-free Munis paid 9%. Savings bonds began at 7.5% and adjusted every six (6) months...with a 4% floor. I had planned to roll these over to HH...
I wonder where he's been hiding all these years.
Perhaps, but 4% was a ridiculously low interest rate in the mid-80s.
My Dad told us to pull our belts tight until we saved $1 for every $1 spent. Then, and only then, could we begin treating ourselves to luxuries...
We already have a Wealth Tax...it's called "inflation". I have a stack of Savings Bonds I bought in the 80s. I bought them with 80s dollars and...
I don't buy into the class winners/losers argument. True, when people become capital managers, changes in expenses have little affect on their...
Yakpoo's Value Equation..."Value = Collector Base / Availability" When applied to money in general, most people "collect" money (when given the...
It doesn't need to get political (or disrespectful)...it's just a discussion of economics. Even John Maynard Keynes would be appalled at the level...
The Gold Standard was largely a self-regulating system. As an economy contracts, gold flows in, money expands, the economy returns to expansion...
This looks like fun! It's always fun when they pay out... [MEDIA]
I think it's a fool's errand to judge history by today's standards...or to judge anyone without first walking a mile in their shoes. The best we...
Nobel economist, Dr. Milton Friedman, made a number of PBS specials in the late '70s and early '80s that address many economic topics discussed...
A whole lotta gold was taken out of the country... "During the financial crisis of 1933 that culminated in the banking holiday in March 1933,...
It sounds like the good ones are in Las Vegas. I've never played one, but it's on my bucket list! For the longest time I thought THIS was a "Coin...
Nice! [ATTACH]
I would be "Off to the Coin Pusher"... [MEDIA]
Gorgeous!!! I love the Disco Duck on the Half Disme. [MEDIA]
I worked in a factory years ago where we would quickly inventory large amounts of the same item by weighing them, subtracting the tare weight,...
"Ugly Buildings, Politicians, and Whores all gain respectability with age." I guess we can add "clad coinage" to the list.
Just the other day I was throwing out some empty boxes and nearly discarded a 2009 Lincoln Coins & Chronicles set.
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