Classical Economics in a Quantum World
Understanding Gold 6 Gold’s many properties define it as a monetary proxy. Gold has no real use other than its role as a monetary commodity. Mankind selected it for this role because history has proven the stability of its value. …
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Understanding Gold 5 I deem the idea that everyone understands gold’s value but few understand why it has value, the gold paradox. The primary reason is that academia, over the last 80 years, has increasingly dismissed gold as a monetary…
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Understanding Gold 4 On August 15, 1971, Nixon, by executive order, broke the dollar-gold link that had anchored the Bretton Woods international monetary system since 1944. (The link was officially severed in February 1973.) This was the beginning of the…
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Despite its present day seeming omnipotent power, the Fed still retains only one significant economic lever.¹ This has been true since the Fed’s creation in 1913. The Fed can create base money or remove it. The Fed has complete, total…
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Understanding Gold 3 As Warren pithily observed, gold does get dug out of the ground. Not just in Africa. Gold is found on every continent on earth. This is one of gold’s many monetary properties. If one is looking for…
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In The Scandal of Money, George Gilder delivers the monetary bookend to his 1981 influential fiscal policy best seller, Wealth and Poverty. W&P greatly influenced Reagan’s economic blueprint for tax cuts across the board, welfare reform, and entrepreneurial fiscal policy. …
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A strong and stable society requires a basic bond between government and its citizens. This is a foundational bond. A bond that cements trust between government and citizens, and allows for a sustained, beneficial return shared equally between each. This is…
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