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A vintage Chinese coin certified by Numismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) just sold for $2.16 million, setting a world record for an NGC-certified Chinese

Numismatic Market Review by Jim Bisognani – NGC Weekly Market Report ......   As I type this morning, I am reminded by the calendar that, in about a

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Lit REACTOR, fair use Raymond Chandler, along with Dashiell Hammett before him and Ross Macdonald after, effected a startling change in the crime novel. As Chandler put it, he took the novel away from those who commit murder with “hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare, and tropical fish” and returned it to “the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.” This passage from Chandler’s essay explaining his technique in “The Simple Art of Murder” is dripping with sarcasm, contempt, and class analysis in its explanation of how the genre had been practiced...

Jeff Garrett: Coin Market Poised for Success     The financial markets have been abuzz the last few days because of the market disruption caused by the skyrocketing stock price of GameStop and AMC Theaters. These stocks have soared in value based on the influence of social media, which is encouraging speculation, and the desire of small investors to crush the professional short-sellers. The pandemic created a small army of traders sitting at home plowing money into the stock market, and many attribute much of the recent rise in the broad market to this new inflow of capital. We can all as...