To save our economy from destruction and from the eventual holocaust of runaway inflation , we the people must take the money-supply function back from the government. Money is far too important to be left in the hands of bankers and of Establishment economists and financiers. To accomplish this goal, money must be returned to the market economy,
Money is a crucial command post of any economy, and therefore of any society. Society rests upon a network of voluntary exchanges, also known as the “free-market economy”; these exchanges imply a division of labor in society, in which producers of eggs, nails, horses, lumber, and immaterial services such as teaching, medical care, and concerts,
We have already described one part of the contemporary flight from sound, free market money to statized and inflated money: the abolition of the gold standard by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and the substitution of fiat paper tickets by the Federal Reserve as our “monetary standard.” Another crucial part of this process was the federal
Gresham’s Law Government imposes price controls largely in order to divert public attention from governmental inflation to the alleged evils of the free market. As we have seen, “Gresham’s Law”—that an artificially overvalued money tends to drive an artificially undervalued money out of circulation—is an example of the general consequences of
There is the ancient bugbear of “hoarding.” The image is conjured up of the selfish old miser who, perhaps irrationally, perhaps from evil motives, hoards up gold unused in his cellar or treasure trove—thereby stopping the flow of circulation and trade, causing depressions and other problems. Is hoarding really a menace? In the first place, what
If inflation is the health of the State, how and in what way has government generated inflation in the history of the United States? The following case studies illustrate this process, as well as the important connection between inflation and centralized State control of the economy. They illustrate also the connection of inflation with
[Reprinted from The Free Market (September 1985). Included in The Rothbard Reader .] It was a scene familiar to any nostalgia buff: all-night lines waiting for the banks (first in Ohio, then in Maryland) to open; pompous but mendacious assurances by the bankers that all is well and that the people should go home; a stubborn insistence by
Para salvar nuestra economía de la destrucción y del holocausto final de una inflación galopante, nosotros, el pueblo, debemos devolver al gobierno la función de suministro de dinero. El dinero es demasiado importante para dejarlo en manos de los banqueros y de los economistas y financieros del establishment. Para lograr este objetivo, el dinero
El dinero es un puesto de mando crucial de cualquier economía y, por tanto, de cualquier sociedad. La sociedad descansa sobre una red de intercambios voluntarios, también conocida como «economía de libre mercado»; estos intercambios implican una división del trabajo en la sociedad, en la que los productores de huevos, clavos, caballos, madera y
Ya hemos descrito una parte de la huida contemporánea del dinero sano y de libre mercado al dinero estatizado e inflado: la abolición del patrón oro por Franklin Roosevelt en 1933, y la sustitución de los billetes de papel fiat por la Reserva Federal como nuestro «patrón monetario». Otra parte crucial de este proceso fue la cartelización federal
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