Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he…

“A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.”

— Robert W. Service

Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

— Anna Benson

“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold; While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North…

— Robert W. Service

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

— George Soros

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able…

— Matthew Modine

The fiat-based system has produced enormous global imbalances that are straining the global economy. Ultimately, I think the whole thing gives way and what…

— Peter Schiff

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

— Paul Krugman

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

“Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the…

— Naomi Wolf

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire,…

— Joan Robinson

Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell you that…

— Helen Callaghan

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper