Dan Sullivan has published two good documents from 1869, which promote public debt-free and commodity-free legal tender from a Libertarian and Georgist perspective. “Finance And Currency,” Congressman Benjamin F. Butler, Massachusetts, Address to the United States House of Representatives, Tuesday, January 12, 1869. http://savingcommunities.org/docs/butlerbenjaminf/finance.html “Thirty Years of Labor,” Terence Powderly, Chapter 9: The Circulating Medium.http://savingcommunities.org/docs/powderly.terence/30years09.html
Archive for December, 2011
The Monetary Debate in 1869
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Gary Johnson Mulls Promoting Libertarian Bill Still
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2011 | 16 Comments »
Governor Gary Johnson decided to run for President as the Libertarian Party candidate. In 2008, the Libertarian Party nominated Rep. Bob Barr, who garnered less than a million votes like most Libertarian Party candidates. A big ticket name does not result in big ticket results. With Rep. Ron Paul also running for President as a [...]
Support for Free Banking in the Free Market
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I support free banking, if it is kept in the free market and restricted to the free market. As a Libertarian, I support the separation of commodity markets and state. This is one of many reasons why I am against the idea of gold as legal tender. My same reasoning applies to free banking. I [...]
Roots of Dismal Science: Land and Money
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2011 | 13 Comments »
There are numerous issues which can lead to economic problems and poverty. The intention of this article is not to diminish these issues, which include such things as crime, fraud, corruption, regulation, control of the media, education, health, monopolization of capital, insurance, speculative bubbles in commodities or industries, the military industrial complex, the police state, [...]
Atheist Economists on a Mission from God
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I’m often criticized by those who worship gold for including quotes from the Bible and speaking in terms of the Creator when presenting economic ideas. I’m accused of not having reason and using faith in the Bible as the basis of my economic beliefs, when the opposite is true. I consider myself to be an [...]
Libertarian Monetary Policy
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
If you want small government and no inflation, you want to give government the power to print interest-free money and to take away government’s power to borrow money printed as interest-bearing debt. The powerful forces of usury would end the search for easy profit in the printing press of private banks, wasteful government spending, and [...]
