Speech on gold standard

[LibertiORDeth]

I am doing a five minute speech on the merits of a gold standard this week, and am looking for some resources. Could someone point me to some good articles on the topic?

[yongrel]

http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/document.php?id=698

http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/topic.php?id=9

[LibertiORDeth]

Thanks, now I need another non-RP source, maybe an article on how it has historically proven to work?

[haigh]

You could focus on the consequences of not being on the gold standard. History has some strong stories to tell. i.e. White's Fiat Money Inflation in France

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=9831&pageno=2

There is proabably good material on Germany's hyperinflation in the last century.

[yongrel]

http://mises.org/articles.aspx

http://www.mises.org/Money.asp

[LibertiORDeth]

I think the emphasis will be on the Fed stealing our gold.

[LibertiORDeth]

You could focus on the consequences of not being on the gold standard. History has some strong stories to tell. i.e. White's Fiat Money Inflation in France

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=9831&pageno=2

There is proabably good material on Germany's hyperinflation in the last century.

Thanks but way to long.

[LibertiORDeth]

Man this is hard...

[Bradley in DC]

Man this is hard...

I explain how to get there (I come on at about the 36 min mark):

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=128770

Oh, and you can cite Alan Greenspan:

http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/greenspan.html

PM me your email address, and I'll send you a PowerPoint

[haigh]

Thanks but way to long.

Understood. Though you will find the human side of this issue far more powerful than the economic. There are some real gems in Whites small book. For example

"They knew too well, from that ruinous experience,
seventy years before, in John Law's time, the difficulties and dangers
of a currency not well based and controlled. They had then learned
how easy it is to issue it; how difficult it is to check its
overissue; how seductively it leads to the absorption of the means of
the workingmen and men of small fortunes; how heavily it falls on all
those living on fixed incomes, salaries or wages; how securely it
creates on the ruins of the prosperity of all men of meagre means a
class of debauched speculators, the most injurious class that a nation
can harbor,--more injurious, indeed, than professional criminals whom
the law recognizes and can throttle; how it stimulates overproduction
at first and leaves every industry flaccid afterward; how it breaks
down thrift and develops political and social immorality. All this
France had been thoroughly taught by experience."

[AJ Antimony]

I just saw a MSM chart the other day about what Paul has said in a debate. Since 2001 the price of oil in terms of the US dollar has gone up like 300%. In terms of the Euro 200%. But in terms of gold, the price of oil hasn't changed at all since 2001. Find that graph.

[LibertiORDeth]

I just saw a MSM chart the other day about what Paul has said in a debate. Since 2001 the price of oil in terms of the US dollar has gone up like 300%. In terms of the Euro 200%. But in terms of gold, the price of oil hasn't changed at all since 2001. Find that graph.

Ok I'll try.

[Imagineer]

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