Gertrude Coogan's Bluff: Greenback Populism as Conservative Economics

09/24/2010 Gary North

Gertrude Coogan is not a household name. She never was. But, because of recent political and economic events, her ideas are getting a hearing in conservative circles. This monograph is North’s attempt — in the phrase of B-Westerns in the late 1930s — to “head-off at the pass” the ideas of the 1880s Greenback Labor Party.

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Gary North

Gary North (1942–2022) is the author of Mises on Money; Honest Money: The Biblical Blueprint for Money and Banking; and Gertrude Coogan’s Bluff: Greenback Populism as Conservative Economics. He is also the author of a free 31-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible.

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