Gold Standard
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Governments and Central Banks Should Look to Gold Not Crypto
The Fed should focus entirely on the soundness of the dollar and the banking system. Innovations like cryptocurrency and the growing infrastructure associated with it are the business of private enterprise, not government and official institutions.
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Fiat Money’s Legal Monopoly
Requiring that citizens track transactions in gold or alternative currencies and pay taxes on gains and losses relative to the dollar is just another mechanism for keeping the monetary playing field unbalanced in favor of government fiat.
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A Review of Philip Barton’s Dawn of Gold: The Real Story of Money
“Money” lacks a standard definition. In his 2014 book Dawn of Gold: The Real Story of Money, Gold Standard Institute President Philip Barton defines money as a “store of stable value,” and it is this stable value that separates gold from everything else that aspires to be called money.
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Gold Mining vs. Bitcoin Mining
The contrasting supply and demand mechanisms of Bitcoin and gold mining pose real challenges to the cryptocurrency’s future.
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Why Drug Dealers, Rappers, and Pimps Wear Their Wealth
There is a reason to the rhyme of why dealers, rappers, and pimps wear their wealth. It all comes down to the legal gulf that separates their professions and art from civic practices. If you want to keep what you have earned, and take every precaution against having it pillaged by the police, it’s best…
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Inflation Is Theft: On the Founding of AIER
Government monetary policy was not invented to help the everyday person but instead to benefit the government and its connected interests, “the swindlers.”
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What Will Devaluation Mean To You?
Devaluation, or clipping the coinage, as the process was called in the days of the Robber Kings, is a subtle form of taxation. Like most other taxes, those imposed by this insidious method will be borne by the Forgotten Man.
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“Cosmic Seigniorage” Underscores Scarcity of Gold
Creating gold requires an excedingly rare event and unfathomable amounts of energy.
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Blockchain and Gold: Compliments or Substitutes?
Several key factors make Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at best imperfect substitutes for gold.
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Governments and Central Banks Should Look to Gold Not Crypto
The Fed should focus entirely on the soundness of the dollar and the banking system. Innovations like cryptocurrency and the growing infrastructure associated with it are the business of private enterprise, not government and official institutions.
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•
Fiat Money’s Legal Monopoly
Requiring that citizens track transactions in gold or alternative currencies and pay taxes on gains and losses relative to the dollar is just another mechanism for keeping the monetary playing field unbalanced in favor of government fiat.
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A Review of Philip Barton’s Dawn of Gold: The Real Story of Money
“Money” lacks a standard definition. In his 2014 book Dawn of Gold: The Real Story of Money, Gold Standard Institute President Philip Barton defines money as a “store of stable value,” and it is this stable value that separates gold from everything else that aspires to be called money.
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Gold Mining vs. Bitcoin Mining
The contrasting supply and demand mechanisms of Bitcoin and gold mining pose real challenges to the cryptocurrency’s future.
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•
Why Drug Dealers, Rappers, and Pimps Wear Their Wealth
There is a reason to the rhyme of why dealers, rappers, and pimps wear their wealth. It all comes down to the legal gulf that separates their professions and art from civic practices. If you want to keep what you have earned, and take every precaution against having it pillaged by the police, it’s best…
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Inflation Is Theft: On the Founding of AIER
Government monetary policy was not invented to help the everyday person but instead to benefit the government and its connected interests, “the swindlers.”
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•
What Will Devaluation Mean To You?
Devaluation, or clipping the coinage, as the process was called in the days of the Robber Kings, is a subtle form of taxation. Like most other taxes, those imposed by this insidious method will be borne by the Forgotten Man.
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•
“Cosmic Seigniorage” Underscores Scarcity of Gold
Creating gold requires an excedingly rare event and unfathomable amounts of energy.
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Blockchain and Gold: Compliments or Substitutes?
Several key factors make Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at best imperfect substitutes for gold.