https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/5.aspxenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/436540.aspxSat, 03 Sep 2011 13:48:10 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:436540No2statism0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/436540.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=5&PostID=436540<p> Several questions:</p> <p> 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;On a scale of 0-10, how&nbsp;accurate is&nbsp;the following statement: &quot;the&nbsp;states&nbsp;that mandated usually&nbsp;low&nbsp;specie reserve ratios gave&nbsp;the pro-Fed people&nbsp;an excuse to start&nbsp;the Fed&quot;?&nbsp; If you believe it has high accuracy, then what should be added to the statement to make it more precise?</p> <p> 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;How likely&nbsp;do you think it is that the Fed would never have come into existence&nbsp;if&nbsp;all the states (or most of them)&nbsp;had consistently kept specie&nbsp;reserve&nbsp;ratios&nbsp;high during the time from&nbsp;when Jackson&nbsp;killed the SBUS up until 1913?</p> <p> 3,&nbsp; What are the best sources, if any exist, that explain&nbsp;what states prospered and&nbsp;which ones didn&#39;t do as well during the &quot;free banking&quot; era?&nbsp; Is there any good revisionist history about&nbsp;the panic during Martin Van Buren&#39;s presidency&nbsp;in Thomas DiLorenzo&#39;s &quot;How Capitalism Saved America&quot;?</p> <p> I&#39;ll be most grateful for&nbsp;any replies: )</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>