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 | Frank Shostak |
| Why We Now Measure Gold in Dollars — and Not the Other Way Around |
| Prior to 1933, the name "dollar" was used to refer to a unit of gold that had a weight of 23.22 grains. Since there are 480 grains in one ounce, this means that the name dollar also stood for 0.048 ounce of gold. This in turn, means that one ounce of gold referred to $20.67.Observe that $20.67 is not the price of one ounce of gold in terms of dollars as popular thinking has it, for there is no such entity as a dollar. Dollar is just a name for 0.048 ounce of gold. On this Rothbard wrote,No one pWednesday, February 10, 2021 |
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 | Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
 America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks |
| "Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes
its laws." (Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty)
Many prominent Americans such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Andrew Jackson have argued and fought against the central banking polices used
throughout Europe.
A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is bank
currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange for an interest-bearing
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
Why Base Your Money On Gold A Simple Answer For First-Timers  |
| The United States embraced the principle of a gold standard – a dollar whose value was linked to a defined quantity of gold – from 1789 to 1971, a stretch of 182 years. During this time, the U.S. was the most successful of any major country, expanding from thirteen war-ravaged states along the AtlanticSunday, November 15, 2020 |
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 | Mike Maloney - Goldsilver |
| Mexico's Past, the World's Future Currency Devaluations |
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It seems the world is doomed to repeat the same mistakes, from wars to large economic shocks that could have been avoided. All this, without a doubt, is the responsibility of leaders, who are often blinded by today's apparent prosperity, or by the desire to postpone the inevitable, leading entire nations to what will eventually end in tragedy.
The influential forces that these leaders possess,Friday, November 6, 2020 |
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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,” thatSaturday, October 24, 2020 |
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 | Lew Rockwell |
 John Maynard Keynes, Immoralist  |
| John Maynard Keynes was born in 1883 and died in 1946. Henry Hazlitt was born in 1894, eleven years after Keynes, and lived much longer, until 1993. Their lives and loyalties are a study in contrast, and mostly of choices born of internal conviction, in Hazlitt's case, or lack thereof, Keynes's case.Monday, September 7, 2020 |
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 | Nick Barisheff - BMSINC |
| August 15, 1971: Inflation Unleashed |
| The general public, the media and most financial observers were largely unaware of the momentous event that took place on August 15, 1971. However, the implications of that event have had an enormous impact on global financial conditions ever since. On that date, US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”. In essence, this meant the US would no longer honour the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, whichSaturday, August 15, 2020 |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - plata.com.mx |
 The Gold Standard: Generator Protector Of Jobs |
| The abandonment of the gold standard in 1971 is closely tied to the massive unemployment the industrialized world has suffered in recent years; Mexico, even with a lower level of industrialization than the developed countries, has also lost jobs due to the closing of industries; in recent years, the creation of new jobs in productive activities has been anemic at best.Saturday, June 27, 2020 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Devaluations of the 1930s Don't Justify Today's Funny Money Excess |
| Without question, the Great Depression was a time when the political
consensus moved from a Classical “hard money” approach towards a
Mercantilist “soft money” approach — leading, ultimately, to today’s
“print until the pain goes away” reaction. Actually, this trend had
started in the later 19th century, and was not fully expressed until
the 1970s – an evolution stretching over a hundred years or more.
But, the experience of the Great Depression period of the 1930s
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 | FOFOA - FoFOA |
Fiat 33  |
| "Sir, I would say, "Old World Order" to return.
To understand/explain better: A very easy way
to view this "order", would be to simply say that
the American Experience is reaching the end! As we know,
world war two left Europe and the world economy destroyed.
Many thinkers of that period thought that the world was about
to enter a decades long depression as it worked to rebuild real
assets lost in the conflict. It was this war that so impacted the
idea of looking positively toward the fuSunday, June 21, 2020 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| The View From 2011 |
| Today, we will continue our discussion of the “gold sterilization” of 1937.
June 18, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937
June 25, 2017: The “Gold Sterilization” of 1937 #2: Fumbling and Bumbling
We will look at an influential 2011 paper by Douglas Irwin, available here:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17595.pdf
All in all, I think the paper is pretty good, at least in its basic descriptions. It meanders into the usual channels of pointless Monetarism, with some equally pointless math, but it doesThursday, June 11, 2020 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
| The Dismal Monetary Science |
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| History of Gold |
| August 15, 1971 Richard Nixon suspends the Dollar to Gold convertibility |
| United States President Richard Nixon's address to the nation announcing the "temporary" suspension of the dollar's convertibility into gold. While the dollar had struggled throughout most of the 1960s within the parity established at Bretton Woods, this crisis marked the breakdown in the system. The closing of the gold window signified the end of the Bretton Woods system.Friday, April 17, 2020 |
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 | Chris Powell - GATA |
 State Dept. memo explains U.S. policy to drive gold out of financial system |
| A long memorandum written in March 1974 by a U.S. State Department official for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and copied to future Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, then the Treasury Department's undersecretary for monetary affairs, describes the desire of the United States and its options to prevent European countries from increasing the use of gold in the international financial system.
The memo, titled "Gold and the Monetary System: Potential U.S.-E.C. Conflict," was recently discovWednesday, April 15, 2020 |
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 | Philip Judge - Anglo Far East |
| Short Run Economics |
| It was the famous British economist John Maynard Keynes who said, "in the long run we are all dead". While now he may well be, his philosophy and economics are alive and well, havingSunday, April 12, 2020 |
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| Mike Hewitt - Dollar Daze |
| America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks |
| In order to pay debts incurred from the Seven Years War with France, King George III of England sought to heavily tax the colonies in America. In 1742, the British Resumption Act required that taxes and other debts be paid in gold.Saturday, April 11, 2020 |
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 | Mickey Fulp - Mercenary Geologist |
| Gold, Silver, and the US Dollar: 1792-1971 |
| In today's musing, I review the history of gold, silver, and fiat currency as money in the United States of America. I document how various wars, panics and depressions, Congressional acts, and executive orders have affected the US dollar prices of precious metals and resulting gold-silver ratios.This musing covers the period from 1792 when the United States government first established a national currency backed by gold and silver untilMonday, April 6, 2020 |
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| Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| March 18, 1968 - "Good Money Is Coined Freedom" Speech by William McChesney Martin, 1968 |
| Today, we have a speech by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, William
McChesney Martin, given on March 18, 1968. At this time, the Bretton
Woods era was coming to an end, not because of some inherent problem,
but because those in charge of maintaining it (including Martin) really
didn't know what they were doing. It was the simplest thing in the
world -- a time of peace and prosperity worldwide -- but they were not
up to the task.
click here for "Good Money Is Coined Freedom," by William McCWednesday, March 18, 2020 |
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 | Keith Weiner - Monetary Metals |
| Standing Ready to Lease Gold |
| We will take another break from capital destruction, to treat a topic which has come up this week. On March 11, we said:
“…central bankers do not think about gold.
Granted, they once did. In the 1960’s, there was the now-infamous London Gold Pool to keep the price of gold at $35. This is endlessly cited as evidence of current central bank price suppression, without bothering to mention that until 1971 the official US policy was to maintain the dollar to gold exchange rate of $35 to the ounce. …
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 |
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| Chris Powell - GATA |
| Hungary's central bank to repatriate its 3 tonnes of gold from London |
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From Hungary Today, Budapest
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
http://hungarytoday.hu/news/hungarian-national-bank-decided-bring-gold-r...
The leadership of the Hungarian National Bank has decided to bring back home Hungary's gold reserves. Up to now, 100,000 ounces (3 tonnes) of the precious metal were stored in London, which is in total worth some 33 billion forint ($130 million) at current gold prices.
The decision seems to be in line with international trends as storage of gold reserves out of thTuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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