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Paper Money Versus The Gold Standard
Submitted by Westernerd on Thu, 2015-12-10 04:00
If there is one lesson to be learned from the history of the last one hundred years – during which the world and the United States moved off the gold standard and onto a government-managed fiat, or paper, money system – is the fundamental disaster of placing control of the money supply in the hands of governments.
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