Sound Money Project
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“Gold Miners Gain on Fed’s Latest Views”
“Miners such as Newmont (NEM) and Silver Wheaton (SLW) galloped to new highs on Wednesday, as gold prices reached another new peak in the wake of the Fed’s latest comments. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday indicated that it was prepared to pump fresh cash into the economy. That drove the dollar lower and boosted gold.”…
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Commitment
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Unknown Today’s Atlas Liberty Café featured a talk by George Mason University professor of economics Peter Boettke. Dr. Boettke gave an interesting lecture…
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“Repudiate the National Debt”
“In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to…
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Art Carden to Speak at Rhodes College, Nov. 17
The Sound Money project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation will be sponsoring a lecture on “The Importance of Sound Money” by Dr. Art Carden at Rhodes College on November 17, 2010. “The Importance of Sound Money” Dr. Art Carden Wednesday, November 17 at 7:00pm Orgill Room in Clough Hall (#51) Dr. Carden is an…
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Devaluing the Dollar
“The historical episodes of hyperinflation that we know of consisted of rapidly falling money demand alongside rapidly rising money supply. In general terms, what tends to happen is that after many years of persistently high monetary inflation, people begin to anticipate future monetary inflation. That is, people begin to factor the effects of the expected…
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“Gold Prices Rise Ahead of Fed”
“Gold prices were continuing their climb to $1,300 an ounce as investors bet on the Federal Reserve announcing another round of quantitative easing on Tuesday. If the Fed decides to buy more government bonds and expand the size of its balance sheet, it means the central bank will also need to run its printing presses.…
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Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory
“The intentionally limited task to which I intend to devote myself in the following pages is that of writing a critical history of the theoretical problem of interest. I shall endeavour to set down in their historical development the scientific efforts made to discover the nature and origin of interest, and to submit to critical…
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“The Radical Banking Reform that Would End the Boom and Bust in Banking”
“We all know what notes and coins are. They allow us to exchange the fruits of our work for the goods of others. When we deposit cash in Bank A – say £100 – we lend this money to the bank. But as soon as you make a deposit it becomes the bank’s. They then…
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Euro Will Unravel, and Soon — AEI
By Desmond Lachman AEI Online Tuesday, September 14, 2010 “The outbreak of a sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s peripheral economies has been among the more important developments in the global economy in 2010. Sadly, this crisis will likely intensify in the months ahead as markets increasingly focus on the intractable solvency and competitiveness issues confronting…
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Principles for Economic Revival — WSJ
By GEORGE P. SHULTZ, MICHAEL J. BOSKIN, JOHN F. COGAN, ALLAN MELTZER AND JOHN B. TAYLOR America’s financial crisis, deep recession and anemic recovery have largely been driven by economic policies that have deviated from proven fact-based principles. To return to prosperity we must get back to these principles. The most fundamental starting point is…
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“Gold Miners Gain on Fed’s Latest Views”
“Miners such as Newmont (NEM) and Silver Wheaton (SLW) galloped to new highs on Wednesday, as gold prices reached another new peak in the wake of the Fed’s latest comments. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday indicated that it was prepared to pump fresh cash into the economy. That drove the dollar lower and boosted gold.”…
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Commitment
“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” – Unknown Today’s Atlas Liberty Café featured a talk by George Mason University professor of economics Peter Boettke. Dr. Boettke gave an interesting lecture…
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“Repudiate the National Debt”
“In the spring of 1981, conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives cried. They cried because, in the first flush of the Reagan Revolution that was supposed to bring drastic cuts in taxes and government spending, as well as a balanced budget, they were being asked by the White House and their own leadership to…
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Art Carden to Speak at Rhodes College, Nov. 17
The Sound Money project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation will be sponsoring a lecture on “The Importance of Sound Money” by Dr. Art Carden at Rhodes College on November 17, 2010. “The Importance of Sound Money” Dr. Art Carden Wednesday, November 17 at 7:00pm Orgill Room in Clough Hall (#51) Dr. Carden is an…
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Devaluing the Dollar
“The historical episodes of hyperinflation that we know of consisted of rapidly falling money demand alongside rapidly rising money supply. In general terms, what tends to happen is that after many years of persistently high monetary inflation, people begin to anticipate future monetary inflation. That is, people begin to factor the effects of the expected…
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“Gold Prices Rise Ahead of Fed”
“Gold prices were continuing their climb to $1,300 an ounce as investors bet on the Federal Reserve announcing another round of quantitative easing on Tuesday. If the Fed decides to buy more government bonds and expand the size of its balance sheet, it means the central bank will also need to run its printing presses.…
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Capital and Interest: A Critical History of Economical Theory
“The intentionally limited task to which I intend to devote myself in the following pages is that of writing a critical history of the theoretical problem of interest. I shall endeavour to set down in their historical development the scientific efforts made to discover the nature and origin of interest, and to submit to critical…
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“The Radical Banking Reform that Would End the Boom and Bust in Banking”
“We all know what notes and coins are. They allow us to exchange the fruits of our work for the goods of others. When we deposit cash in Bank A – say £100 – we lend this money to the bank. But as soon as you make a deposit it becomes the bank’s. They then…
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Euro Will Unravel, and Soon — AEI
By Desmond Lachman AEI Online Tuesday, September 14, 2010 “The outbreak of a sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s peripheral economies has been among the more important developments in the global economy in 2010. Sadly, this crisis will likely intensify in the months ahead as markets increasingly focus on the intractable solvency and competitiveness issues confronting…
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Principles for Economic Revival — WSJ
By GEORGE P. SHULTZ, MICHAEL J. BOSKIN, JOHN F. COGAN, ALLAN MELTZER AND JOHN B. TAYLOR America’s financial crisis, deep recession and anemic recovery have largely been driven by economic policies that have deviated from proven fact-based principles. To return to prosperity we must get back to these principles. The most fundamental starting point is…
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