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Fiat and Gold: Two Fixes for a Broken US Monetary Base

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12/13/2022Brendan BrownRobert Pringle

The US monetary system is out of sorts and out of control. The authors show a path back from the inflation brink to monetary soundness.

Original Article: "Fiat and Gold: Two Fixes for a Broken US Monetary Base"

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Authors:

Brendan Brown

Brendan Brown is a founding partner of Macro Hedge Advisors (www.macrohedgeadvisors.com) and senior fellow at Hudson Institute. As an international monetary and financial economist, consultant, and author, his roles have included Head of Economic Research at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute. He is the author of Europe’s Century of Crises under Dollar Hegemony: A Dialogue on the Global Tyranny of Unsound Money with Philippe Simonnot. His other books include The Case Against 2 Per Cent Inflation (Palgrave, 2018) and he is publisher of “Monetary Scenarios,” Euro Crash: How Asset Price Inflation Destroys the Wealth of Nations and The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve: Manifesto for a Second Monetarist Revolution.

Robert Pringle

Robert Pringle is Chair of Central Banking Publications and the co-author (with Brendan Brown) of A Guide to Good Money (Palgrave 2022).

Original Article: 
Fiat and Gold: Two Fixes for a Broken US Monetary Base