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93	Credit is always larger than the monetary base. It's also what will contract	JF Quinnelly	-	3/28/2001
92	I'll take a look at the von Mises book. I must say, though, that just becau	Ilaine	-	3/28/2001
91	Bankers issue credit against assets. I don't know about them "monetizin	JF Quinnelly	-	3/28/2001
90	>>All it took was convertability, and the guarantee that debts would be pa	Ilaine	-	3/28/2001
89	<i>. Mortgage backed money and commodity money make perfect sense there. &	JF Quinnelly	-	3/28/2001
88	Well, I think you are mistaken. It's not just Austrians who use that definit	JF Quinnelly	-	3/27/2001
87	I don't think it's any accident that the people who think the most about	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
86	Ai-yi, now we are getting into that idiosyncratic definition of inflation/deflat	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
85	The return to the gold standard in the years following the War Between the State	JF Quinnelly	-	3/27/2001
84	Higher energy costs act like a tax, reducing consumers' discretionary income	JF Quinnelly	-	3/27/2001
83	Thomas, you and CB are both right about fuel consumption. There was technology t	Mike M2	-	3/27/2001
82	In a free market the price of everything is subject to market forces. Fixing an	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
81	The way I see it, the price of gold was free until 1934. It was the dollar that	Thomas M.	-	3/27/2001
80	Technology improved, but a greater reason for the improvement in gas mileage was	Thomas M.	-	3/27/2001
79	Message 15569856	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
78	Consumption dropped because technology improved. That's not predictable. T	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
77	CB - <i>...The ratio of gold-to-Big-Mac will always change, and as you ha	Don Lloyd	-	3/27/2001
76	No, demand was definitely elastic. Granted, the response time was slow. I don&	Thomas M.	-	3/27/2001
75	OK, and now we come to the crux of the matter. BTW, I am not trained in economi	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
74	In light of the fact that I don't "get" Austrian economics, I conf	Ilaine	-	3/27/2001
73	Thomas, nice find -ho ho ho Mike	Mike M2	-	3/27/2001
72	CB - <i>...If gold has intrinsic value, its intrinsic value is $260 an ou	Don Lloyd	-	3/27/2001
71	CB - <i>...Your promise to pay is probably worth less than Bill Gate'	Don Lloyd	-	3/27/2001
70	I suspect that the origins of credit-as-money may be with bills of exchange issu	JF Quinnelly	-	3/27/2001
69	Great links. I haven't read Gerard Jackson in a while, and I had forgotten	Thomas M.	-	3/26/2001

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