Introduction ~ What you are about to read is one of the most interesting commentaries by Murray N. Rothbard that I have been priviledged to read AND to share read – however – what I am posting this evening – is merely an earlier commentary to what would follow some years later – and is ALL a profound bit of history – as relates to economics – including gold and the destruction of economics around the world.
But what we are publishing – is merely his introduction of the entire story, and was written and published by Rothbard in 1991 and was followed up some years later. Stay tuned my friends – as soon you will have access to the rest of the story. ~ Jeffrey Bennett, Editor
When this essay was published, America was in the midst of the Bretton Woods system, a Keynesian international monetary system that had been foisted upon the world by the United States and British governments in 1945. The Bretton Woods system was an international dollar standard masquerading as a “gold standard,” in order to lend the well-deserved prestige of the world’s oldest and most stable money, gold, to the increasingly inflated and depreciated dollar. But this post-World War II system was only a grotesque parody of a gold standard. Continue reading
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