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The "Barbarous Relic" Helped Enable a World More Civilized than Today's

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Tags The FedKeynesMonetary PolicyGold Standard

12/21/2022George Ford Smith
Narrator: 
Millian Quinteros

John Maynard Keynes derided gold-based money as a "barbarous relic," yet it was gold that enabled a long regime of honest money -- and the advance of civilization.

Original Article: "The "Barbarous Relic" Helped Enable a World More Civilized than Today's"

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George Ford Smith

George Ford Smith is a former mainframe and PC programmer and technology instructor and the author of eight books and welcomes speaking engagements.

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Original Article: 
The "Barbarous Relic" Helped Enable a World More Civilized than Today's
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