Mises Daily
Author:
Sean Corrigan
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Speech given to the Gold Investing conference held in Geneva on May 18th 2006 Among the Anglo-Saxons, there is a school of thought called the “Whig view of history,” which sees the course of events as an unrolling tapestry on which is woven a record of a steady, ineluctable progression from barbarity to civilization. Yet, ironically, the Whigs’