JP Cortez argues fiat money is a hidden theft, and that the fix is a bottom-up, state-level push to remove the taxes and rules that stop Americans from freely choosing gold and silver.
Ryan McMaken shows how seizing control of money was central to building the modern state — a centuries-long project that culminated in World War I destroying the gold standard.
Deflate the dollars, or redefine the dollar’s weight—or some blend of the two.
Not a novelty but an inheritance: Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, and hard-money.
An opponent of gold describes the 100 percent standard better than its friends do.
The supply of money, Rothbard answers, essentially does not matter.
Issuing receipts for gold that does not exist is not banking. It is fraud.
The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
The first intervention was not inflation. It was the seizure of the mint.
If dollars are things in themselves, why may not everyone manufacture them?
