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Monetary Evolution: Where are we today? Commerce today is dominated by “electronic” transactions. A business that does not support the use of debit/credit cards will be extremely limiting its customer base and will likely not survive. The emergence of this form of money was the credit card...
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I have thus far found the Mystery of Banking to be an amazing book on the dynamics of the money system. But Rothbard's description of the fractional reserve system does not jive with what I have been taught and this definition becomes essential later on when he explains why fractional reserve banking...
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In the midst of our economic slowdown, the U.S. Treasury Dept has issued what they are calling the "Blueprint for Financial Regulatory Reform". The highlights, as given by an article on Yahoo!'s website , are as follows: --designate the Fed as the primary regulator for market stability...
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The textbook for my Principles of Macroeconomics class, Macroeconomics , 2nd ed. by R. Glenn Hubbard and Anthony Patrick O'Brien, has a section entitled "Money without a Government? The Strange Case of the Iraqi Dinar" (Chapter 13, p. 435 for anyone who is interested) in which the authors...