Rothbard in Switzerland

05/25/2012 Mises Wire Dan Sanchez

Thorsten Polleit emails:

Today, Murray N. Rothbard shows up in Switzerland’s most prominent newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), in an article titled “Dangers of the paper money system”: http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/wirtschaft/uebersicht/gefahren-des-systems-mit-ungedecktem-papiergeld_1.17034050.html Rothbard is noted as being the leading figure of libertarianism and for having blamed the Fed for being an evil inflation machinery, supporting commercial banks in their inflationary efforts. I guess the NZZ journalist deserves some applause!

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