Against a 3 Percent Inflation Target
September 4th, 2023 • There is no good reason to accept a higher inflation target. All the arguments for it rely on dark-age macroeconomics, which should have stayed buried with the stagflation of the 1970’s.
The Monetary Mistakes Behind the Downfall of Cleopatra and the Last Dynasty of Ancient Egypt
August 23rd, 2023 • It turns out that Egypt was no exception to the rule that governments can’t be trusted with money.
Inflation Is a Giant "Skim" on the American People
August 18th, 2023 • Simply put, inflation is a giant “skim”—perpetrated in a symbiosis of money creation by bankers and government-affiliated central bank bureaucrats, the two institutions with the power to create money from nothing. Inflation creates a nice, cushy exi
Specie Money: The Forgotten Currency
August 17th, 2023 • With inflation still at high levels, it is becoming overwhelmingly evident to Americans that Federal Reserve notes steadily depreciate in value as a form of currency. For example, an item that cost a silver dollar in 1913 – the year the Federal Reserve
How to Return to the Gold Standard
August 15th, 2023 • The Major Obstacle to Monetary Reform Is Ideological
The Fed Hits 3,000 Percent Inflation
August 15th, 2023 • The U.S. economy was pushed to extremes during the pandemic recession and subsequent recovery. The unemployment rate peaked at 14.7 percent, the highest in the post-World War II period. Inflation reached its highest rate in 40 years, prompting the Fed to
SMDL Policy Director Joins The Gold Exchange Podcast to Discuss Sound Money in the States
August 8th, 2023 • Jp Cortez, policy director of the Sound Money Defense League, joins Keith and Ben of The Gold Exchange Podcast to discuss sound money related legislative battles across the country in 2023, the constitutionality of money, and more
The Roman Emperor Who Tried to Bring Monetary ‘Reform’ to the Empire—and Failed Miserably
August 8th, 2023 • The lesson of Aurelian? Beware of false reformers.
The Emperor Who Tried to Bring Sound Economics Back to Rome - and Paid With His Life
August 1st, 2023 • History records countless examples of currency debasement, i.e., the steady reduction in a money's precious metal content or "backing" (principally gold or silver), followed in modern times by the introduction of fiat (unbacked) paper money, which then de
Oregon Governor Signs Bill Ending Unjust Corporate Activity Tax on Precious Metals Dealers and Investors
July 28th, 2023 • With the stroke of her pen, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek put an end to the state's punitive Corporate Activity Tax as applied to precious metals dealers and, ultimately, to gold and silver investors, effective in 2024.
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- Against a 3 Percent Inflation Target
- The Monetary Mistakes Behind the Downfall of Cleopatra and the Last Dynasty of Ancient Egypt
- Inflation Is a Giant "Skim" on the American People
- Specie Money: The Forgotten Currency
- The Fed Hits 3,000 Percent Inflation
- How to Return to the Gold Standard
- The Roman Emperor Who Tried to Bring Monetary ‘Reform’ to the Empire—and Failed Miserably
- SMDL Policy Director Joins The Gold Exchange Podcast to Discuss Sound Money in the States
- The Emperor Who Tried to Bring Sound Economics Back to Rome - and Paid With His Life
- Oregon Governor Signs Bill Ending Unjust Corporate Activity Tax on Precious Metals Dealers and Investors
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