Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

Showing posts with label gold standard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gold standard. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Confiscation: Gold as Contraband

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Confiscation: Gold as Contraband 1933-1974  by Kenneth R. Ferguson was a pleasure to read. Ferguson writes well. I met Ken Ferguson in pers...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Senator Thomas Hart Benton

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After thirty years as Missouri’s U.S. Senator, Thomas Hart Benton’s fall from power was immediate and complete. His loyalty to his values m...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

What is Cost?

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We generally accept the dollar price of something to be its cost to us. The truth is more complicated. Accountants and economists know “opp...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Objectivism and the Gold Standard

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Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan both assumed that the government would be the only source of money.  Even in Atlas Shrugged when John Galt hand...
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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Mere Gold is Not Enough: Hayek's "Denationalisation"

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F. A. Hayek's Denationalisation of Money (1978) made a case for an open market in money, without legal tender laws, and without a gover...
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