Gold: The Once and Future Money by Nathan Lewis, Addison Wiggin

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By Nathan Lewis, Addison Wiggin

This publication is written in very transparent language, and it does not insult anybody's intelligence. It builds up the entire explanation why gold concerns as a forex backing. It additionally explains why it is so seriously very important for a citizenry to call for their executive no longer devalue or debase the forex. Governments have used such a lot of tips to make the people's cash worthy much less. the united states is, regrettably and unfortunately, no diverse during this regard. Taking our cash off the optimal and permitting inflation to be monopolized by means of the Federal Reserve is egregious. This ebook indicates it up so truly!

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The other countries that suffered hyperinflation after the war were also quick to readopt the gold standard: Austria in 1923, Poland in 1924, and Hungary in 1925. The United States was the sole major power to stick to the gold standard through the war, although its commitment was rather shaky between 1917 and 1920.

Diocletian (284–305) strove to halt the inflation, even issuing reformed full-weight coins. qxp 3/22/07 2:34 PM Page 24 GOLD: THE ONCE AND FUTURE MONEY from circulation. Diocletian was surprised and dismayed by his failure— as we are today, for he was so close to success! The proper solution would have been to allow the new coins to trade at their intrinsic value, many times that of the debased coins that they would eventually replace. Having failed to restore a reliable hard currency, as Alexander, Caesar, and Augustus had done, Diocletian reached for price controls in his famous Edict of Prices of 301, which simply exacerbated the problem by introducing a new impediment to trade.

For 10 years the new bank maintained the value of its paper money, but beginning around 1786 the bank began to make excessive loans to the heavily indebted government, which was accompanied by overissuance of banknotes. The French Revolution soon followed, but the revolutionary governments were even worse. They issued enormous quantities of fiat currency after 1789. Like the United States, modern France began with a hyperinflation. qxp 3/22/07 2:34 PM Page 33 Hard Money and Soft Money coin. Riots broke out in Paris in May 1795, which led ultimately to the rise of Napoleon.

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