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143	>>Of course it was inevitable for economic reasons.<< By economic r	Ilaine	-	3/31/2001
142	JF, an excellent summary of the austrian view of the Great Depression gold-eagle	Mike M2	-	3/31/2001
141	<i>The Germans were put into an impossible situation, with mutually contra	Thomas M.	-	3/31/2001
140	A lot of Europe's gold was already in the US, it had been shipped here for s	JF Quinnelly	-	3/30/2001
139	<i>Why did the US cooperate with Great Britain in its effort to keep the e	JF Quinnelly	-	3/30/2001
138	>>Smoot-Hawley, the big bugaboo, didn't go into effect until after the	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
137	>>The Great Depression was primarily an economic and monetary event. There	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
136	The gold standard probably didn't help the Depression any, but it didn't	JF Quinnelly	-	3/30/2001
135	The Great Depression was primarily an economic and monetary event. There's n	JF Quinnelly	-	3/30/2001
134	Bell and Howell is scanning old books and old microfilm into digital form and wi	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
133	>>Just to be perfectly clear, are you saying that the difficulty of daily	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
132	<i>The actual physical shipments of physical gold from one country to anot	Thomas M.	-	3/30/2001
131	>>I wouldn't consider this a reliable source. If you read the NY Times	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
130	<i> I was trying to explain to the gold bugs that at some point the fracti	Thomas M.	-	3/30/2001
129	Cool. We agree with each other, so it must be true. -g- I was trying to explai	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
128	Ooops. Stalin. Anyway, remember the Great Famine in Russia? You already know	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
127	Close, but no cigar. Lenin was already stuffed and on display in Red Square by t	JF Quinnelly	-	3/30/2001
126	<i>At $20.67 an ounce, there wasn't enough gold in 1929-1930 for every	JF Quinnelly	-	3/30/2001
125	Oh, gosh, a lot of really interesting things were happening in 1930. Ghandi sta	Ilaine	-	3/30/2001
124	You sound more like you're writing a sequel to <i>Gravity's Rainbo	JF Quinnelly	-	3/29/2001
123	It seems like you are saying "credit money" as if it's not money.	Ilaine	-	3/29/2001
122	The money that vanished in the Depression was credit money. The big part of the	JF Quinnelly	-	3/29/2001
121	Probably you would have been better off studying banking. Not that economics is	Ilaine	-	3/29/2001
120	Great minds think alike. It was reading a newspaper article about some swindler	JF Quinnelly	-	3/29/2001
119	As in "discounting paper"? If interest rates were 10% per year, what	JF Quinnelly	-	3/29/2001

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