Gold: The Once and Future of Money | Silver Monthly - The Silver Investor's Resource - 1 views
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although convenient, barter is an inefficient economic tool, because it is too arbitrary. This arbitrariness is not conducive to productivity or prosperity
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Reagan proposed his Rosy Scenario
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Reagan believed a good economic policy was one that would “result in a better economy, not a worse one.”
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the gold standard is the foundation of any economy desirous of being a Camelot. In that sense, then, Gold is a plea for a return to sanity - the gold standard. The book is presented in three parts. Part One takes a look at the history of money, what it is and how it works. Part Two examines the history of America's money, from Colonial silver through the 1930s and into the Reagan administration and the Greenspan years. The third part of Gold discusses recent currency crises around the world, including Japan, the Asian crisis of the 1990s, Russia, China, Mexico and Yugoslavia.