DIGG THIS Dick Cheney wasn’t the first Vice President to shoot somebody: Aaron Burr is depicted here shooting and mortally wounding Alexander Hamilton during their 1804 duel in Weehawken, New Jersey, an “affair of honor” that came a couple of decades too late to save America from a lot of economic misery. Recalling the death of Alexander Hamilton at the hands of Aaron Burr, one is inevitably prompted to borrow the line from Shakespeare’s Scottish Play: “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” After examining the legacy of the first U.S. Treasury Secretary in Thomas DiLorenzo’s timely … Continue reading The Death of the Dollar Standard