tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15536029.post113741362577318655..comments2023-09-17T03:59:28.940-04:00Comments on Montag ...: Messages from another timeB.W. Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08123361895629806975noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15536029.post-1137555077308145312006-01-17T22:31:00.000-05:002006-01-17T22:31:00.000-05:00Interesting and instructive, indeed! I remember en...Interesting and instructive, indeed! I remember enjoying Reader's Digests a few decades back; it wasn't until after that I learned that its editor was someone who'd been a Rand fan (I'm not recalling the name).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15536029.post-1137457594384708532006-01-16T19:26:00.000-05:002006-01-16T19:26:00.000-05:00From Forbes:Our banking laws and regulations are s...From Forbes:<BR/>Our banking laws and regulations are such that each $100 of gold can theoretically be made the basis for granting $1,000 of credit.<BR/><BR/>This was one of the great things about having the private banks of the Federal Reserve put in charge of our banking system - debt. H.L. Mencken railed against FDR and his idiotic Brain Trust and their socialist policies only to have him re-elected, but as Mencken pointed out, "not a single one of the problems that confronted Dr. Roosevelt and his necromancers on March 4, 1933, has been solved. They have got rid of more than $8,000, 000,000 of the taxpayers' money to date, and are preparing to grab and waste $8,000,000,000 more, but the state of the nation is worse than it was when they began.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com