Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. George Selgin

Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. George Selgin

Should a monetary system be centrally planned? Don’t make Dr. Selgin laugh. We sat down with Dr....
Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.

Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.

When life gives you lemons, plant an orange tree.  We need an alternative to the Fed’s lemons. We...
Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. Thomas Rustici

Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. Thomas Rustici

What’s the point of saving the banks if you’ve got to destroy money to do it? We sat down...
Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. Judy Shelton

Sound Money Interview Series: Dr. Judy Shelton

Treasury Trust Bonds.  Two out of three won’t cut it anymore. We sat down with Dr. Judy Shelton,...

Are We Waking Up?

Commentary, Sound Money Blog — May 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM
In some of the most encouraging news to come out of the endless War on Financial Sanity being waged by Western governments, it seems that people are beginning to wake up to the fiat money scam. Greeks are pulling their money out of banks (though still woefully unaware that pulling out fiat money from banks backed up by a printing press accomplishes nothing but laying bare the farce that is paper money, laying...

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Are We Waking Up?

Are We Waking Up?
In some of the most encouraging news to come out of the endless War on Financial Sanity being waged by Western governments, it seems that people are beginning to wake up to the fiat money scam. Greeks are pulling their money out of banks (though still woefully unaware that pulling out fiat money from...
May 17th, 2012 | Commentary, Sound Money Blog | Read More

Gold Tells the Truth

Gold Tells the Truth
    One of gold’s greatest powers is that it is a unit of account which cannot be fudged nearly as easily as the fiat all-you-can-print buffet. Feel like your wages are buying less in real terms? They are: Feel like your dollar is buying less, even though the financial press claims that...
May 17th, 2012 | Blogs, Resources | Read More

Krugman’s Misreading of US Banking History

Krugman’s Misreading of US Banking History
by Steve Horwitz  In his NY Times column Sunday, Paul Krugman tries, in vain, to construct a case for bank regulation in light of the problems at JP Morgan. As usual with Krugman, there’s much to disagree with, but I want to focus on his utterly ham-handed version of the history of US banking,...
May 16th, 2012 | History of Money, Resources | Read More

Returning to a Gold Standard System: Why and How?

Returning to a Gold Standard System: Why and How?
by Nathan Lewis The answer to Why? is: because gold-linked stable money is superior to manipulated funny money. The answer to How? has two subsections. The first is: How to maintain a gold standard system? The second is: How to transition to a gold standard system?The answer to “how to maintain...
May 16th, 2012 | Popular Articles, Resources | Read More

The Golden Rule Reinterpreted

The Golden Rule Reinterpreted
  by Peter Schiff In an April speech in Berlin, Dr. Andreas Dombret, a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank (the German central bank), offered a startlingly frank assessment of the current problems in Europe. Although his comments were meant to apply to the tensions and imbalances...
May 15th, 2012 | Popular Articles, Resources | Read More
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