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The Abandonment Of The Gold Standard Made It Possible For The Welfare Statists To Use The Banking System As A Means To An Unlimited Expansion Of Credit. In The Absence Of The Gold Standard, There Is No Way To Protect Savings From Confiscation Through Inflation. There Is No Safe Store Of Value. Deficit Spending Is Simply A Scheme For The Hidden Confiscation Of Wealth. Gold Stands In The Way Of This Insidious Process. It Stands As A Protector Of Property Rights. If One Grasps This, One Has No Difficulty In Understanding The Statists' Antagonism Toward The Gold Standard.

It's A Bubble. It Has To Have Intrinsic Value. You Have To Really Stretch Your Imagination To Infer What The Intrinsic Value Of Bitcoin Is. I Haven't Been Able To Do It. Maybe Somebody Else Can.

If We Allow Terrorism To Undermine Our Freedom Of Action, We Could Reverse At Least Part Of The Palpable Gains Achieved By Postwar Globalization. It Is Incumbent Upon Us Not To Allow That To Happen.

We Are In The Midst Of A Once-in-a-century Credit Tsunami. Central Banks And Governments Are Being Required To Take Unprecedented Measures. Those Of Us Who Have Looked To The Self-interest Of Lending Institutions To Protect Shareholders' Equity Are In A State Of Shocked Disbelief.

Well, You Probably Will Always Believe There Should Be Laws Against Fraud, And I Don't Think There Is Any Need For A Law Against Fraud.