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I honestly could not believe my eyes when I read his post. I started to challenge him, and the converstation grew even more ridiculous. I have no idea how to respond anymore. I know what I want to say, I just can't say it right. Here is the conversation, with me and a poster who I will called "Keynes...
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In " Return to Honest Money " ( http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2011/05/return-to-honest-money.html ), blogger FOFOA discusses the idea of Freegold in the context of some writings from prominet Austrian School economists, focusing on Mises, Menger, Hayek, and in particular Mises' ideas regression...
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I've been wondering for some time now why people don't currently use gold, silver, platinum, bananas, or whatever as a medium for exchange instead of dollars, euros, yen, etc. Are there laws in place forcing people to trade in dollars? There are plenty of other things available that could be...
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Hello Mises, Some of you may have heard of Positive Money, a UK based NGO working on researching and advocating monetary reform. We have recently opened up a forum, please come along and say hello if you're interested in discussion. Click here to visit our forum
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Rothbard explains this in a practical, step-by-step plan... The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar , & The Case for a Genuine Gold Dollar by Murray Rothbard (and you might go ahead with Gold as Money: FAQ What Has Government Done to Our Money? , The Mystery of Banking by Murray Rothbard just for...
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This was a few days ago. Does anyone have any opinions or ideas that might shut down the gleam of optimism I have for this bill? I'm just wondering if it could possibly catch on any time soon. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/htmdoc/hbillhtm/HB0317S01.htm
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I've been reading the comments in this thread and am appalled by the level of ignorance and arrogance by anyone too scared to accept that a non-commodity backed currency could ever work. You all seem to forget that the sole purpose for money is to facilite exchange. One of the main reasosn you'd...
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Also be sure and check out Gold as Money: FAQ
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I am an economic layman, but I want to know more. I recently started reading Murray Rothbard's "What Has Government Done to Our Money?". I am about 50 pages in and there are two things that are confusing me. 1) In arguing that money must arise out of a free market process as opposed to...
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I was reading Doug French's book about the housing collapse and came across the Shiller graph showing historical home values. I'm a self-taught student of economics and don't have the background that others might. I wanted to pick the brains of the Mises community on the housing spike/collapse...