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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:12:13 MET
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- From: Grzegorz Albinowski <caius@II.UJ.EDU.PL>
- Subject: why gold - creative government
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- Jimbo tries to help Caius and explains:
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- >But the government is creative. And so long as they regulate (for
- >example) the reserve requirement, they can still control the money
- >supply. And I'll bet that they could think up mechanisms other than
- >that to manipulate the money supply, even if gold were used as money.
-
- I always considered gold standard to be first step to abolishing
- reserve requirements. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth the effort.
-
- Yes the government is creative, but the less place it have to use it
- creative function, the less harm to the economy.
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- Do we have give up, just because gov't is creative?
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-
- >The gold standard would not achieve the effects intended by those
- >who advocate it. And there are some serious drawbacks to the whole
- >idea.
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- What are they? Could you explain? The gold standard is not the best solution
- possible, but it is virtually free from governmaent interference.
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- >The idea goes as follows: no one really understands very well what
- >the overall effects of messing around with the money supply are
- >over the long haul,
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- I think, Hayek (and the Austrian school) understood that. I don't,
- but he is convincing.
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- Caius.
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