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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
 The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future, by Edwin Walter Kemmerer |
| There aren’t a lot of good books about the gold standard — the monetary system of the world until 1971 — after WWI. There aren’t a lot before WWI either, but it starts to get pretty bad after 1920. Ralph Hawtrey’s books have some merits, but they also have too many errors to serve as a definitive source.
Gold and the Gold Standard: The Story of Gold Money, Past, Present and Future (1944) is something of an exception to this pattern. Edwin Walter Kemmerer was a professor at Princeton.
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 | Adrian Ash - Bullion Vault |
| Inflation and human nature |
| "...Scrabbling in the earth for a fresh source of cash, the gold & silver miners of 13th century Europe proved that the money supply never simply increases as if by magic..."Tuesday, March 19, 2019 |
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| The Disastrous History of Money - USA Gold |
The Nightmare German Inflation  |
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 | David Zurbuchen |
The World's Cumulative Gold and Silver Production  |
| This is the first installment of a planned 7-part series:
Part 1 - The World's Cumulative Silver and Gold Production. Documenting
the total amount of silver and gold produced since recorded history.
Part 2 - The
Silver Deficit. Documenting the silver production/consumption deficit
since 1942.
Part 3 - The Real Silver Deficit. Answering the questions of "How much
silver has been consumed by industry?" and "In what potentially marketable
accessible forms does it remain?"
Part 4 -Wednesday, March 6, 2019 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Banker Gold Price Suppression Currency Manipulations Have Persisted for 50 years |
| This 1967 meeting of the FOMC nearly 46 years ago is clear and indisputable evidence of gold price suppression and currency manipulation of the world's "free" and "open" market exchanges.
This criminal cabal has certainly built up their mechanisms since this time to conceal their sinister scheme from issuing dishonest money. It's blatant now and all of "in your face" is their behavioral response to inquiry. Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead.
If you find this too cumbersome to read, the FedTuesday, February 26, 2019 |
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| Benjamin Constant |
| On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns |
| "He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exaggeraThursday, February 21, 2019 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
| What Exactly Is ‘Racism’ |
| I want to look at two words that the State and its hangers-on have employed with much success on behalf of increases in government power. One is racism. The other is equality.
What exactly is “racism”? We almost never hear a definition. I doubt anyone really knows what it is. If you’re inclined to dispute this, ask yourself why, if racism truly is something clear and determinate, there is such ceaseless disagreement over which thoughts and behaviors are “racist” and which are not?
If put on theSunday, February 17, 2019 |
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 | Tom DiLorenzo |
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850): Between the French and Marginalist Revolutions  |
| CLAUDE FREDERIC BASTIAT was a French economist, legislator, and writer who championed private property, free markets, and limited government. Perhaps the main underlying theme ofBastiat's writings was that the free market was inherently a source of "economic harmony" among individuals, as long as government was restricted to the function of protecting the lives, liberties, and property of citizens from theft or aggression.Sunday, February 17, 2019 |
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 | Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| They Thought They Were Free |
| "You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. ASaturday, February 16, 2019 |
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 | Eugen Von Böhm-Bawerk - Mises.org |
| Our Passive Trade Balance |
| Editor's Note: Published in January 1914 in Neue Frei Presse,"Our Passive Trade Balance" (“Unsere passive Handelsbilanz”) would prove to be Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk's last publication before his death. Ludwig von Mises mentions the article in an essay written after Böhm-Bawerk's death, but to our knowledge, this is the first time the essay has appeared in English. Nathan Keeble located a scan of the article posted by the Austrian National Archives. Translation by Kai Weiss.]As is well known, the tTuesday, January 1, 2019 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| Kindergarten’s Socialist Origins |
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Most schools today, both public and private have kindergartens. They have become an accepted part of educational life in this country and others as well.
This was not always so. When I first attended public school, way back in the mid-1940s, there was no kindergarten where I went. Although some schools undoubtedly had them, all schools did not.
They had not become totally entrenched, although their promoters had been working on that project withSunday, December 30, 2018 |
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| Benjamin Constant |
| On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns |
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He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.
His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exagThursday, December 6, 2018 |
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 | Chris Powell - Gata |
| Fed, Bank of England deceived Bundesbank on coin-melt bars in 1968 |
| Citing Bank of England records, Zero Hedge reveals tonight that as the London Gold Pool was collapsing in 1968 the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England conspired to conceal from the GermanBundesbank the deficient gold content of U.S. gold bars, apparently made from coin melt, that were being transferred to theBundesbank to conclude gold swaps.Thursday, November 29, 2018 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| The Never-Ending Wars of the United States of America |
| A Monday Morning Musing from Mickey the Mercenary Geologist"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefiWednesday, November 21, 2018 |
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 | Thorsten Polleit |
| November 15, 1923: The End of German Hyperinflation |
| On 15 November 1923 decisive steps were taken to end the nightmare of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic: TheReichsbank, the German central bank, stopped monetizing government debt, and a new means of exchange, theRentenmark, was issued next to thePapermark (in German:Papiermark). These measures succeeded in halting hyperinflation, but the purchasing power of thePapermark was completely ruined.Thursday, November 15, 2018 |
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 | Frederic Bastiat |
| God Protect Us from Metaphors |
| A fallacy sometimes expands, and runs through the whole texture of a long and elaborate theory. More frequently, it shrinks and contracts, assumes the guise of a principle, and lurks in a word or a phrase.
"May God protect us from the devil and from metaphors!" was the exclamation of Paul-Louis.[1] And it is difficult to say which of them has done most mischief in this world of ours. The devil, you will say; for he has put the spirit of plunder into all our hearts. True, but he has left free theTuesday, October 30, 2018 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| God, Gold and Guns |
| We’ve been looking into One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter.
October 2, 2017: One Nation Under Gold (2017), by James Ledbetter
October 14, 2017: One Nation Under Gold #2: The Silliness of the Bretton Woods Years
Now, we will follow Ledbetter’s account of the end of Bretton Woods in 1971, up to the present.
The account of the 1971 devaluation was, following the pattern of this book, long on details but short on insight. It seemed to people at the time that they “had no choice,” thatTuesday, October 23, 2018 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Golden Thorn In The Flesh, Part 2 |
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| Jesse - Le Cafe Américain |
| The White Rose, In the Land of the Willfully Blind |
| This is one of my favorite leaflets from Die Weiße Rose. I enjoy their observation that "German intellectuals fled to their cellars, there, like plants struggling in the dark, away from light and sun, gradually to choke to death."
One cannot blame them in some ways, since from the very beginning the National Socialists were backing their words with violent street thugs in brown shirts. And so many among the very wealthy and the highly trained professional classes threw themselves into the armThursday, October 18, 2018 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| Germany's Stolen Gold Reserves - Times are changing - the debts remain (Russian) |
| Is the US Fedkeeping doublebookkeeper entries -addingGermany's plusothergovernments' goldincluded in the USclaimedreserves of 8,100+ tons? Show metheyaren't.
STERN REMINDER:It's notownershipthatcounts - -it'salwayswho has CONTROL! Bereminded ofthistruismwhenitcomes toyourownpersonalbankdeposits and "safe"deposit boxes.Thursday, October 18, 2018 |
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