Objections to 100 Percent Gold
The supply of money, Rothbard answers, essentially does not matter.
Money and Banking
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100 Percent Gold Banking
Issuing receipts for gold that does not exist is not banking. It is fraud.
The Decline from Weight to Name: Encouraging Bank Inflation
The natural tendency of the state is inflation.
The Decline from Weight to Name: Monopolizing the Mint
The first intervention was not inflation. It was the seizure of the mint.
The Dollar: Independent Name or Unit of Weight?
If dollars are things in themselves, why may not everyone manufacture them?
Money and Freedom
To argue for a full gold standard is to risk being classed with the dodo bird.
Preface
Bretton Woods was a dollar standard wearing the prestige of gold.
The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland
Scotland's celebrated free banks were neither free nor superior.
Rothbard vs. the Free Bankers
Bob reviews Murray Rothbard's 1988 essay "The Myth of Free Banking in Scotland," his sharp response to Larry White's influential account of Scottish free banking.
Business Cycles and Skyscrapers
The Singer Building and the panic of 1907. The Empire State and the Depression. The Burj Khalifa and 2008. Lucas Engelhardt on why the world's tallest buildings keep opening at exactly the wrong moment.
