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"Money: Free and Unfree" with George Selgin (WiM209)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Path to Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions

I'm just reminded that the path to hell is paved with good intentions. They were trying to defer the judgment day, i guess, or the day of reconciliation back to the seconomtat reality. And it, you know, there's a when you delay. We went off the gold standard in 18 62, and a we didn't go back on it till 18 79, not completely. So we took our time, and that's how the united states got back on te gold standard without going through this process.

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