Topic: Gold Standard

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

How China Is Driving Federal Reserve Policy

– August 21, 2012

During the Cold War, national security analysts spoke knowingly about the art of “Kremlinology.” This was a technique for understanding Soviet power relations and policy changes taking place inside the leadership compound in the Kremlin.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, International, Monetary Policy, Policy, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Central Banks Race to BUY Gold At Record Pace

– August 21, 2012

This must be more evidence of Bernanke’s “tradition.” The Olympics may be over, but central banks around the world have begun a race to buy gold and are doing so at the highest level in decades. The World Gold Council recently announced that central ba …

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Monetary Policy, Sound Money Project

Monetary Reform: The Key to Spending Restraint is Golden Handcuffs

– August 14, 2012

Paul Ryan’s plan won’t succeed without legislation to prevent the Federal Reserve from monetizing the national debt.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Led by Rep. Ron Paul, Congress Explores Sound Money

– August 6, 2012

As concerns over the U.S. dollar and the Federal Reserve continue to grow, U.S. lawmakers are exploring sound money, competing currencies, and the route to monetary freedom.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

Our Money is Dying

– July 10, 2012

A question on the minds of many people today (increasingly those who manage or invest money professionally) is this: How do I preserve wealth during a period of intense official intervention in and manipulation of money supply, price, and asset markets?

Currency, Fiscal Policy, Gold Standard, History, International, Sound Money Project, Unemployment

The Euro’s Fetters?

– July 9, 2012

Is the Euro harder to escape than the Gold Standard? Spanish economist Jesús Huerta de Soto just published a new article entitled “An Austrian Defense of the Euro.” In this paper Huerta de Soto develops an argument based on the lectures given by Nobel …

Currency, Gold Standard, History, Sound Money Project

Why Gold?

– July 5, 2012

While it’s true that many Austrian economists (Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, etc.) write in reference to gold as money and use such definitions in their thought constructs, the context of their writing must first be understood.

Currency, Gold Standard, Inflation, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Fiat Money

– June 29, 2012

The notion that inflation is harmful is a staple of economic science. But most textbooks underrate the extent of the harm, because they define inflation much too narrowly as a lasting decrease of the purchasing power of money

Currency, Free Markets, Gold Standard, History, Inflation, Sound Banking, Sound Money, Sound Money Project

A Free-Market Monetary System

– June 25, 2012

When a little over two years ago, at the second Lausanne Conference of this group, I threw out, almost as a sort of bitter joke, that there was no hope of ever again having decent money, unless we took from government the monopoly of issuing money and handed it over to private industry, I took it only half seriously.

Central Banking, Currency, Gold Standard, International, Monetary Policy, Sound Banking, Sound Money Project

Power to China in the I.M.F. – Does this mean Gold to be Mobilized?

– June 22, 2012

While the B.R.I.C.S nations are contributing to the I.M.F.’s funding with the purpose of shoring up the global financial system, they’ve stipulated that they want more power in the I.M.F.

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Cryptocurrency, Currency, Gold Standard, Sound Money Project

Why Apple is Afraid of Bitcoin

– June 18, 2012

When you finally grasp the magnitude of Apple’s play in the payments business, it becomes clear that potential competitors will be shunned from the platform.

Currency, Free Markets, Gold Standard, History, Sound Money Project

A Cure for What Ails Us

– June 12, 2012

It is not enough to encourage enterprise and limit regulation—we need a fixed system of value.