Topic: Gold

The Mating of Economic Ideas and Bitcoin

“As Bitcoin is a highly decentralized and antifragile system with no real-world backed assets that can be seized to shut it down, appears to be the only realistic candidate to introduce something that government cannot stop.” ~ Emile Phaneuf III

A World Dedollarized is Gold Remonetized

“What matters is having a ready means of transacting outside dollar-based systems and institutions in exigent circumstances: to maintain continuity of trade, and to hedge against the policy errors of central bankers.” ~ Peter C. Earle

Eliminating the Debt Ceiling: Is There Anything the 14th Amendment Can’t Do?

“The Biden administration threatens to invoke Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to sidestep the longstanding federal debt ceiling in a way that would increase the power of the executive branch. ” ~ Robert E. Wright

The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect

What if Gold Coins Were Mated With Bank Notes? An Interview with Jeremy Cordon of Goldback

“There is certainly a market for sound money that is hard to serve legally. Yet Cordon has proposed a way to serve that market – at least in an anachronistic sense. But those bought into the promise of cryptocurrencies, might have doubts. Cordon agreed to be interviewed.” ~ Max Borders

Bitcoin vs. Gold: What’s the Difference? (Video)

“In this episode of Liberty Curious, AIER Managing Editor David Waugh and Kate Wand discuss the differences between gold and bitcoin, and how each one might improve upon fiat currencies.” ~ AIER

A Note on the New Russian “Gold Standard”

“Despite the clamor of incorrect headlines, Russia’s embrace of gold amid awful circumstances remains a positive step. Gold is tangentially being utilized to make an existing money more sound.” ~ Peter C. Earle

Are Gold Rubles Gold or Rubles?

“The loss of citizens’ purchasing power over decades was scarcely enough to drive states to introduce monetary reforms. It is not surprising that a newly-cast pariah state is embracing gold in a desperate bid to recapture some semblance of normalcy.” ~ Peter C. Earle

How Societies Save For an Uncertain Future

“This is the problem that all societies have tried to overcome – moving value through time and ensuring our individual livelihood when we’re too old to produce the value that sustains us.” ~ Joakim Book

Advantages of Returning to the Full Gold Standard with the Nation’s Currency Redeemable in Gold Coin on Demand

Research Report 05/20/1954 Special Bulletin

Ball and Blockchain: Company Marrying Gold to Cryptocurrencies

A company is trying to bring the calming influence of gold to the Wild West frontier of cryptocurrencies

Might a Bitcoin Standard Be Good as Gold on Price Levels, Exchange Rates?

A monetary standard based on Bitcoin, a digital currency, would act something like the gold standard in making price levels more predictable and stabilizing exchange rates but would likely be undone by politicians and central bankers.