Entrepreneurship Quote by James Rickards

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not…

— Ludwig von Mises

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the…

— Murray Rothbard

There is, literally and figuratively, not a gold standard. That's almost as big a problem in art as in the financial world. How do…

— John Currin

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

— Ludwig von Mises

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now…

— John Maynard Keynes

Monetary reform, if it is to be genuine and successful, must sever money and banking from politics. That's why a modern gold standard must…

— Lawrence Reed

The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited…

— Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and…

— Alan Greenspan

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

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 reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't…

— Bernard von NotHaus

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

— Alan Greenspan