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Gold Tells the Truth

– May 17, 2012

Feel like your wages are buying less in real terms? They are

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Returning to a Gold Standard System: Why and How?

– May 16, 2012

The answer to ‘Why?’ is: because gold-linked stable money is superior to manipulated funny money. The answer to ‘How?’ is a bit more complicated

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The Real Debate On Gold And Money

– May 7, 2012

Engaged observers who otherwise were content with that central bank apathy awake to the possibility that flexibility for the Federal Reserve comes at the price of individual flexibility. More power for Chairman Bernanke necessarily means less power for you and me.

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The US Dollar Vs. Gold

– April 27, 2012

The GFC is falsely named, since it is more accurately described as a global monetary war with the USGovt vigorously defending its franchise in the USDollar for crude oil and trade settlement, and for bank reserves management.

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Is There No Escape from the Euro?

– April 27, 2012

Is escaping the Eurozone possible?

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A Gold-based Currency Board, Please

– April 25, 2012

Gold-based currency boards could transform Professor Mundell’s prediction into a reality. Currency boards have existed in more than 70 countries and a number are still in operation today.

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Contra Bernanke

– April 16, 2012

Another takedown of the Fed Chairman’s “lesson” at GWU.

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Digging Up and Digging Down Gold

– March 30, 2012

The Gold Standard is the worst standard, except for all the others. In a recent post at Nada es Gratis (Nothing is Free), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde discusses a visit to the vault where gold is stored at the New York Fed. The post and subsequent commen …

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Problems Facing Every Monetary System

– March 30, 2012

by Kurt Schuler Readers of George Selgin’s post just below should be aware that there is a an extensive comment section about it, including a few of his own remarks, over at Marginal Revolution. Now, on to what I promised to discuss in my last post, so …

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Ron Paul and the Martian Atmosphere Machine

– March 22, 2012

“Bernanke, give these people air!” by John DeFeo Ron Paul has staked his presidential hopes on a few key issues, among the most prominent being monetary policy. The feisty Texas congressman has had his share of ideological head-butting with Federal Res …

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Would the Real Gold Standard Please Stand Up?

– March 5, 2012

“Bears are animals. Animals have four legs. Chairs have four legs. Therefore, chairs love honey.” What’s wrong with this logic? Don’t ask opponents of the Classical Gold Standard… The gold standard debate has seen a spike recently in different blogs …

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Don’t blame the Depression on the gold standard – but don’t expect it back either

– March 1, 2012

Then again, who wants a government run gold standard anyway?