Thursday, October 31, 2013

Industrial Medals a Currency of Fame

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Most people call it “coin collecting” but numismatics is the art and science that studies the forms and uses of money. That includes money-...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Tokens of Capitalism

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In the popular adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End , Jack Sparrow and his friends must battle an array of bad guys headed...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Money Without Banks and Governments

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 marked the onset of the Great Depression, but it took 30 months for the banks to fail. After all, the stock m...
Saturday, October 26, 2013

The Art of Finance

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Numismatics is the art and science that studies for the forms and uses of money. Numismatists tend to consider government coins as "coi...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Centralization and the Inverse-Square Law

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The fundamental tension between planning and discovery forces utopian philosophers to walk a tightrope between their visions and our choice...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Mortality

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A couple of years ago, I did not understood why my libertarian and objectivist comrades were effervescent about Christopher Hitchens.  For ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Etruscans and Americans

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If “Common Core” had been discovered in the yellowed pages of a 19 th century Presbyterian teachers’ college from Ohio , political conserv...
Thursday, October 3, 2013

Markets Bring Fairness

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It is deeply revealing that when free market libertarians are challenged to explain (absent the government) who would take care of the poor...