Silver Dave gets philosophical as he explores the history and fundamentals of money. We also get another glimpse of the SilverBitz™? factory floor, this time with an intimate look at one of the famous coin machines. Is silver money? If so, when?
Jared Diamond, PhD, is a professor, scientist, historian, and author of several books, including "Guns, Germs, and Steel," "Collapse," and "Why Is Sex Fun?" His latest book, "Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings," is available now.
But, as with most official retellings of historical turning points, the real history of Labor Day is a messy and violent one that blended a genuine desire to improve working standards with plenty of exploitative and self-serving activists, agitators,
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"We must recognize that many of the fundamental ideas that dominate our present-day world were founded upon a particular understanding of that wartime history...
In this episode of The Timeless Investor, Arie van Gemeren breaks down how this ancient text perfectly diagnoses the terminal illness of modern finance: substituting compliance for honor, and hiding behind "information asymmetry" to extract profit fr
On August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1813.
During the French Revolution, authorities in Paris turned to "a series of ventures in price-fixing and food control" to ensure people did not go hungry. It didn't work as planned.
In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published "The Fourth Turning," a cyclical theory of Anglo-American history built around generational archetypes and recurring saecular rhythms of approximately 80 to 100 years -- roughly the len
Those who have read The Odyssey know that it begins in medias res - Latin for "in the middle of things," that it's the earliest example of nonlinear storytelling that we have, and that it was first passed down orally as sung by rhapsodists in a
When and why did the word "gender" displace the word "sex?" "Gender" refers to a person's socially constructed identity of being male, female, or some other category, while "sex" refers to physical characteristics of male or female, such as chromosom
Grand Chief Garrison Settee says we don't need any physical proof that 215 children are buried at the former Kamloops residential school because the spirits are sending messages and only Indigenous people can "feel the power and the energy."
In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The event became known as the Night of the Long Knive
The world changed abruptly in the early 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed seemingly overnight, and the American Empire moved into a new era of dominance.