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To: Goose94 who wrote (111191)7/29/2021 7:07:25 PM
From: Goose94Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 202704
 
Gold: The New York Sun launches, with Judy Shelton's op-ed this evening --

nysun.com

-- a series on the 50th anniversary of the collapse of the monetary system that had been established at Bretton Woods at the end of World War II.

That system, centered on America's promise to redeem dollars presented to it by foreign governments at a 35th of an ounce of gold, was far from perfect. Yet its collapse, in the summer of 1971, opened up a new and far more dangerous moment -- the era of fiat money.

We regard the drama of money without a definition in specie as among the most newsworthy stories of our time. This is not a view widely shared among the bien pensant economists and politicians. It turns out that inflation has a vast constituency of those who count as a virtue fiat money's ability to enable the expansion of government and the funding of the socialist state.

All the more compelling is the current crisis. ...

... For the remainder of the commentary:

nysun.com

From: GATA