Monetary Choice Articles
- Value of Federal Reserve Dollars in Pounds of Wheat
- Monetary Base – an inflation forecaster
- Federal Reserve advocate recites 250 years of scare tactics at DC debate
- Even the Olympics abandoned its gold standard
- Senate salaries decimated by Federal Reserve
Definitions
Articles from Other Organizations
- Mackerel Economics in Prison Leads to Appreciation for Oily Fillets – WSJ
- Argentines barter to survive – BBC
- Prison Economics: How Fish and Coffee Become Cash – Wired
- Money in War-Ravaged Iraq, Edward Gonzalez
- On the Origins of Money, Carl Menger
- The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp, R. A. Radford
- Expatriate Your Wallet – Daily Reckoning
- Haiti: ‘Money is worth nothing right now … water is the only currency’ – The Scotsman
- Evaluating Inflation Risk Is Just Like Evaluating Hurricane Risk
- Inflation and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Legislation
See the Take Action page.
Videos
Gold Standard Solution: Mini Dollars
Books
- 99% of All You Need to Know About MONEY, Harry Browne
- Mystery of Banking (PDF), by Murray Rothbard
- What has government done to our money? Murray Rothbard (read online)
- The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin
- The History of Money, Jack Weatherford
- Theory of Money & Credit, Ludwig von Mises
- Honest Money: Challenge to Banking, John Tomlinson
- The Case Against the Fed, Murray Rothbard (read online)
- The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative, Vera C. Smith
Price Indices
Price indices show the real value of national currencies over the years. For example, today $15 is worth two movie tickets. In 1970, $15 was worth about ten tickets. a decrease of 80 percent.
- Gas Prices since 1998 (excel file) – compiled by Monetary Choice using gov data
- Movie ticket prices
- Food prices – foodtimeline.org
Precious Metals Sites and Dealers
- Precious metals dealers worldwide
- ATC Trust Funds – appears to be like the ETF bullion funds
- Bullion Managment Group in Toronto
- Coin dealers such as Kitco
- Gold futures via exchange traded funds such as GLD or SLV
- Banks: Goldmoney.com, Bullionvault.com
- Note: precious metals have a higher capital gains tax
Blogs and Websites
- Richard Werner, Professor
- Tenth Amendment Center
- Constitutional Tender
- Cobden Centre
- Cobden Partners
- Shadow Stats
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- Campaign for Liberty
- DollarDaze
- Economics Junkie
- Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education
- Free Banking
- Freedom Force International
- Gold Standard 2012
- Gold Standard Solution
- InflationData.com
- Judy Shelton
- Mises Blog
- Mortgage Secret Power
- National Inflation Association
- Ounce of Silver
- Positive Money (they understand the problem, but mistakenly recommend gov’t money printing)
- Priced in Gold
- Sound Money Project
- The Gold Standard Now
- Utah Sound Money (also see the 2011 summit event)
Misc
When storing valuables at home, consider that some renter’s insurance policies offer more coverage for rare coins and currency ($3,000) versus bullion or regular gold coins ($250).