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I saw this on an anti-Ron Paul site today. Some marxist said if America goes back to the gold standard it would either have to buy up all the gold on earth or it would have to find a way to take money out of circulation in order for the amount of money to equal the amount of gold. Is this true?
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I've been trying to read Krugman's book (I find it heavy on rhetoric and short on logic) and have been thinking about this babysitter analogy. I see you point about the price-fixing. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me there are other problems as well. In this analogy, the money is originally...
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I'm a bit of a soft-core libertarian, and an economist in particular. A lot of reading and discussion I have read has let me with a number of questions regarding the worshipped "gold standard." 1) Gresham's law states that "bad" easy currency will crowd out "good"...
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First of all, I would like to introduce myself. I am a computer programmer from the Netherlands. I am working on a theory of money and banking derived from the "Natural Economic Order" of Silvio Gesell. "Natural Economic Order" clearly states that the root the economic and monetary...
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See Rothbard's What Has Government Done to Our Money . When a regular person buys a government bond, that person is spending money they had to have somehow received beforehand from someone else. That is, it must have been money that was already in circulation. When the Federal Reserve buys government...
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[quote user="Norak"]Wouldn't it be better to simply buy land in the country, stockpile on food, guns, water, and so on? You can't eat gold.[/quote] Possibly. However, not everybody can buy land or grow their own vegetables. Therefore, gold serves the rest of us who need to trade. The...
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[quote user="Ed D."]I suspect that what your professor meant was that since the supply of gold is limited there is not enough gold to back an infinite number of printed , worthless paper fiat dollars thus not allowing for an infinite , unaccountable governmental spending spree. He's right...