Gold and Deflation: A Dissenting Dissection

By happy coincidence, two articles on a subject near and dear to our heart recently appeared within a day of each other. The first was Steve Saville’s Gold and Deflation (April 19, 2005). The second was Fred Sheehan’s “Gold and the...

Déjà Vu: Central Banks at the Abyss

The first Washington Agreement on Gold, announced in September 1999 at the close of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C., placed limits for the next five years on the official gold sales of the signatories as well...

Fiat’s Reprieve: Saving the System, 1979-1987

Agent K: “Did he say anything to you?” Officer Edwards: “Yeah, he said the world was coming to an end.” Agent K: “Did he say when?” Men in Black (2001) Reading the pro-gold submissions incorporated in the Report of the U.S. Gold Commission twenty-some years ago is a...

Saving Canada with Gold Grams

Québec Libre: Gramme par Gramme (la version française canadienne) CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction Introduction 1. U.S. Dollar Imperialism 1. Impérialisme du Dollar É.U. 2. Looney-Tooney Land 2. Terre du Huard ($1) et du Polar ($2) 3. Free Gold for Free Trade?...

Québec Libre: Gramme par Gramme

Traduit par Pierre-Jean Lafleur avec l’assistance de l’auteur Saving Canada with Gold Grams (original English language version)   CanadaGoldGrams.html#anchor87697 CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction Introduction 1. U.S. Dollar Imperialism 1....

Money in Court: Paving the Road to Ruin

MPEG COMMENTARY – Page 21 June 18, 2002. Fork in the Road: Appeal of Right or the Right Appeal A decade ago in my essay The Golden Sextant, I urged the adoption of a modernized gold standard, both to bring the U.S. monetary system back into conformity with the...