Translator on September 26th, 2008

Crossposted at Dailykos.com
I decided to post this today even though the debate is coming up because of a new development in gold. I have been working on this off and on for several days (one does not just sit and type this kind of detail), but today the Mint announced that is has suspended [...]

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Translator on September 7th, 2008

Crossposted at Politicook.net
As a bit of a change from science, tonight we shall discuss the smallest denomination of American coinage, the cent. Often called a “penny”, the cent was first minted 1793. By the way, a “penny” is British, and no coin officially called a penny has ever been minted by the United [...]

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