ThinkProgress, the heresy-hunting thought-control site, lashed out at Ted Cruz last week for advocating some kind of tie between the dollar and gold. Cruz himself is not the issue; the… Read More
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Paul Ryan Supports the Gold Standard, and I’m Lady Gaga
Bob Wenzel notes that Keynesian Joe Weisenthal just tweeted: “Ugh. Paul Ryan appears to believe in something akin to the gold standard. http://bit.ly/NpNMK4 .” Be sure to read Bob’s analysis , which is… Read More
No Phony Gold Standards
When you hear talk about returning to the “gold standard,” be sure you know what the speaker means by the term. There are plenty of phony gold standards out there. … Read More
Anti-Gold Propagandist Steps into the Shredder
Beware Gold!
Is there anything in this article that isn’t false, a fallacy, or confusion? You have to love how fiscal and monetary stimuli are presented as indisputably Good Things; since a gold standard… Read More
‘My Friends Dismiss Ron Paul Over Gold’: How to Respond
A reader writes: I have been looking for a list of economists who support Ron Paul for president. I constantly get the following comment from other economists, “Ron Paul doesn’t… Read More
How to Return to Gold
Plenty of sensible people recognize there’s something wrong with our money, and favor a return to a commodity money as existed under the gold standard. But how do we get… Read More
Ep. 2016 The Truth About Inflation
With price inflation now evident to everyone, I decided to revisit some fallacies (like Elizabeth Warren’s claim that price increases are caused by “greed”) about inflation and fiat money. Articles… Read More
Listeners’ Websites
Here is a list of the websites I have promoted on the Tom Woods Show for people who used my web hosting link . (These are just the sites that are still live as… Read More
Ep. 1258 Libertarians Are Cranks on Money, Our Critics Say
When it comes to sound money and fiat paper, we libertarians are nearly always dismissed as cranks. Why, don’t we know that we need the government to be able to… Read More
