
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
Gold and Economic Freedom http://www.constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm 1966
1950–60s
Gold and Economic Freedom http://www.constitution.org/mon/greenspan_gold.htm 1966
1950–60s
“In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.”
A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), p. 172
Context: Those who advocate the return to a gold standard do not always appreciate along what different lines our actual practice has been drifting. If we restore the gold standard, are we to return also to the pre-war conceptions of bank-rate, allowing the tides of gold to play what tricks they like with the internal price-level, and abandoning the attempt to moderate the disastrous influence of the credit-cycle on the stability of prices and employment? Or are we to continue and develop the experimental innovations of our present policy, ignoring the "bank ration" and, if necessary, allowing unmoved a piling up of gold reserves far beyond our requirements or their depletion far below them? In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
Source: Principles of industrial organization, 1913, p. 42
“Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.”
“ Gold Is Not the Real Measure of a Nation http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/25/olympics2008.china,” Guardian, August 25, 2008.
2000-09, 2008
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.
Source: The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), Chapter Four, International Money matters, p. 170
“they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.”
Book VI, 6.34; "they have abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly" ( trans. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm Benjamin Jowett)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI