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- Gold Standard
- 2013
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Thorsten Polleit
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From the session on “Studies in Economic History,” presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference. Recorded 22 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Mises Daily
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Murray N. Rothbard
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[”Revolution in Minnesota,” The Libertarian Forum , August 1, 1969.] The idea prevails that to favor gold or silver money is to be a mossback reactionary; nothing could be further from the truth. For gold (as well as silver) is the People’s Money; it is a valuable commodity that has developed, on the free market, as the monetary means of
Mises Daily
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Patrick Barron
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Understanding today’s convoluted domestic and international fiat monetary system frankly requires a great deal of time and study. One must understand fractional reserve banking, and the way this system affects the money supply. One must understand the multi-step process by which banks create money out of thin air. One must understand central bank
Mises Daily
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David Stockman
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(Excerpt from THE GREAT DEFORMATION: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman . Published by PublicAffairs.) When FDR Got the Gold The long-lasting imprint from FDR’s famous “Hundred Days” did not stem from the bank holiday, national industrial recovery act, the farm adjustment act, the Tennessee Valley Authority, or the
Mises Daily
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Ludwig von Mises
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The gold standard was an international standard. It safeguarded the stability of foreign exchange rates. It was a corollary of free trade and of the international division of labor. Therefore those who favored etatism and radical protectionism disparaged it and advocated its abolition. Their campaign was successful. Even at the height of
Mises Wire
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Mark Thornton
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David Howden is interviewed on the GoldMoney show with Andy Duncan. “Howden thinks that the Euro will hold together in the short term, but he is rather pessimistic on the long term outlook of the common currency. One at a time countries which were formerly regarded as “stable” are being dragged into the debt hole. Though he assesses the problems
Mises Wire
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Mark Thornton
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Thorsten Polleit delivered a speech at the Austrian Economics Research Conference entitled “The Gold Standard That Never Was.” Thorsten was interviewed by GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan. The speech is discussed in this podcast . The conditions that he sees as being necessary for a gold standard to be compatible with free market principles are discussed.
Mises Daily
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Joseph T. Salerno
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The gold “price rule” denotes the monetary reform proposal put forth in various forms by a number of supply-siders, including Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, and Jude Wanniski. Laffer’s detailed formulation of the proposal also served as the basis of the Gold Reserve bill, introduced in the Senate by Jesse Helms in January 1981. The scheme has
Mises Daily
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Mark Thornton
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On Wednesday, January 16 the German Central Bank (i.e., Bundesbank) announced that it was going to repatriate some of its gold reserves currently being held at the New York Fed and all of its gold reserves held by the Banque de France. It had previously repatriated 940 of the 1385 tons of its gold reserves held at the Bank of England, citing high