What If We Were on a Gold Standard?

Tags: Gold Standard, Inflation, Money and Banks

07/08/2025 Madhusudan Raj

Twentieth and twenty-first century monetary history shows us how our government, step-by-step, removed the monetary gold standard and introduced their fiat paper currency dollar to fund their increasing political power.

Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/what-if-we-were-gold-standard

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