Comments on: Clear, Simple and Wrong

By: No country (that matters) is moving to the gold standard || Twenty Third Floor

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:45:10 +0000

[…] It won’t happen even if the president of the World Bank suggests it might. Why not? Because it won’t work. It doesn’t solve our problems and creates innumerable other problems. […]

By: What gold gets you || Twenty Third Floor

What gold gets you || Twenty Third Floor — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:39:59 +0000

[…] to take from this? Well, France stuck to the gold standard longest during the Great Depression. Still think gold or a gold-standard currency is a good idea? Â The basics of monetary policy here seem to have been forgotten. We went through all of this, and […]

By: Pretty as a picture || Twenty Third Floor

Pretty as a picture || Twenty Third Floor — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:22:40 +0000

[…] a WordPress plugin that creates really great word / tag clouds. I created this one from my post Clear, Simple and Wrong using Wordle. I think it sums up the post well. Clear, Simple and Wrong in words as […]

By: I promise to pay the bearer || Twenty Third Floor

I promise to pay the bearer || Twenty Third Floor — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:56:00 +0000

[…] shrieking about if we were on the gold standard none of this would be true, please read my post on the gold standard currency and what a terrible, terrible idea it is for reasons that have been established over and over again for decades for anyone who bothers to […]