Despite their common reputation as agents of God's will…

“Then he told me how Dean had met Camille. Roy Johnson, the poolhall boy, had found her in a bar and took her to…

— Jack Kerouac

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in…

— Ben Bernanke

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England,…

— Ed Balls

I think the gold standard is a clinical diagnosis, that an astute clinician interacting with a child, interviewing the parents, talking with teachers makes…

— Gerald Fischbach

Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting…

— Mark Leibovich

“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless…

— Jonah Goldberg

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