Posts Tagged ‘
gold standard ’
Apr 27th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Anyone can be right once.
What America needs desperately is a "re-set" button, just not one in flawed Russian. We're already being overcharged. What would solve most of the problems (after some truly horrible tangles were unraveled) would be to go back a minimum of a hundred years and start over. ...
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Tags: Federal Reserve, gold standard
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
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Apr 16th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Don't ask us why the Maestro showed up in our dream. He just did. So we took the opportunity to ask him a few questions. We've reconstructed the conversation as best we can.
"Maestro...you hardly look yourself. It looks like twenty years have dropped from your face. It must be liberating ...
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Tags: fiat money, gold standard, government, taxes
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics |
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Feb 10th, 2009 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Featured, Gold
"Gold-backed money retained its real value for 350 years in the United States and Great Britain. It's only just clawed back to that level for investors today..."
By the time the War of the Spanish Succession was finished in 1715, the French King – who admitted that he "loved war too ...
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Tags: Gold, gold standard, inflation
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Nov 21st, 2008 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics
Society functions best when each individual minds his own business…literally. When concerns are local and governments miniscule — just doing modest things like protecting property rights and enforcing contracts — then things generally work out for the best. When governments get ambitious and each citizen seeks ...
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Tags: currency, depression, gold standard, taxes
Posted in Featured, Gold, Macro Economics, Politics |
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Oct 6th, 2008 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Currencies, Economics, Politics
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson was successful in publishing the Federal Reserve Act through Congress. The act allowed the government to establish the third central bank in the nation’s history.
Think of the Fed as the bank of banks, and the government’s bank — the gatekeeper of the U.S. economy. The ...
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Tags: gold standard, I.O.U.S.A, inflation, Paul Volcker, stagflation, U.S. fiat currency
Posted in Currencies, Economics, Politics |
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Sep 8th, 2008 |
By Adrian Ash |
Category: Gold
It seems an odd quirk of history that Washington’s post-War obsession with its nationalized gold reserves — an obsession which Ian Fleming neatly tapped into with Goldfinger in 1959 — came so long after what historians call the “classical” Gold Standard ended.
Indeed, central bank gold reserves worldwide rose almost five-fold ...
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Tags: gold standard, government gold control, nationalized gold reserves, private gold ownership
Posted in Gold |
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Aug 16th, 2005 |
By Michael Shedlock |
Category: Gold
Mike Shedlock examines a book by Vincent Locascio called The Monetary Elite vs. Gold's Honest Discipline about the gold standard, along the way examining a Ron Paul-Alan Greenspan exchange and the words of Ludwih von Mises.
I JUST FINISHED reading a copy of a book entitled The Monetary Elite vs. Gold's ...
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Tags: Gold, gold standard, ron paul, Vincent Locascio
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