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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] http://tinyurl.com/ohvhne [/quote] The url gives us a Google Book sample. Some pages of Jouvenel's essay are missing from the sample. Anyone still interested in a complete copy of "No Vacancies" can get it in the FEE volume Essays on Liberty, Volume 1 . That's a table of contents page. There's
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[quote user="yonoid"]But isn't this the bi-metallism that Austrians look down on that was abused in the 19th century? Or is there a difference?[/quote] Bimetallism refers specifically to a regime in which the exchange ratio of gold and silver are fixed by government fiat. Austrian School monetary writers have been justly hard on this scheme
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[quote user="Stolz25"]They were at the current set ratio of dollars to gold. Shortly thereafter the ratio was nearly doubled, effectively stealing half of everyone's gold wealth. I can't figure out how they did that without a revolt....[/quote] Remember, the governing classes had been successfully encouraging the use of paper money
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According to Wikipedia , the compensation was $20.67 per troy ounce of gold. The text of the order reads: Section 4. Upon receipt of gold coin, gold bullion or gold certificates delivered to it in accordance with Sections 2 or 3, the Federal Reserve Bank or member bank will pay therefor an equivalent amount of any other form of coin or currency coined
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[quote user="Conza88"]How long are you guys waiting for?[/quote] When I get the mega-wait, it's like one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three, one-thousand-four, and page loads, or still one-thousand-five even, before the page loads. This happens to me under half the times I click a forum link, but close to it. Very annoying
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[quote user="Auntie State"]Does anyone have advice for reading material?[/quote] David Gordon wrote an introduction to Austrian Economics for high-school students: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning . It's only $10 in the Mises Store. There's a free PDF in the Literature section of the LvMI site if you'd like to have a look
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Hello LFOD, and welcome. [quote user="Live_Free_Or_Die"]On a side note this server does seem annoyingly slow at times when I am surfing the site.[/quote] God I'm glad you mentioned this. Clicking on any link in this forum is usually painfully slow. I mean, I see the DSL light flicker on my modem as the door-knocking request goes to the
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[quote user="Justin"]I do not however think this is in the scope that would be teachable to high school students and the like.[/quote] It depends greatly upon the high school student's talent and inclinations. And what sort of schooling the student has had. There are some "high schools" here in Chicago that could barely be considered
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[quote user="jeff fogel"]When you purchase or sell gold in the form of bullion coin, can the government obtain a record of this purchase?[/quote] I believe that sometime during the 90s, precious metal dealers were dragged into the reporting requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act . I've seen pieces like this one from January of 2004, bitching
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[quote user="Lilburne"]Introducing... Issue #1: The Basics Until I figure out something better, I'm publishing these as Google Picassa album. Feedback appreciated as always.[/quote] HA Comics Issue 1: The Basics, p. 14. The top reads: "Behavior is purposeful if it has an end (a goals or aim)." This should read "a goal"