ISIL Freedom Network: Global > Introductions and FAQs > Banking, Money, Finance
- How Much Money?
Source: The Freeman/FEE
Author: Bettina Bien Greaves
Country: United States
- Greaves examines whether we need more money or just increased purchasing power.
- Place Your Bets on Virtual Cash
Source: Free-Market.Net Media Spotlight
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Country: United States
E-mail: media@free-market.net
- Why so many are flocking to electronic trade. Tuccille looks at the mass media treatment of e-cash in this Media Spotlight.
- How to Return to the Gold Standard
Source: The Freeman/FEE
Author: Bettina Bien Greaves
Country: United States
- Different ways for returning to the gold standard.
- Central Banks, Gold, and the Decline of the Dollar
Source: The Freeman/FEE
Author: Robert Batemarco
Country: United States
- A historical examination of gold and the U.S. dollar's decline as compared to other currencies.
- The Oncoming Monetary Collapse: The Fight for Honest Money
Source: Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education
Author: Lawrence Parks
Country: United States
E-mail: lparks@fame.org
- An excellent, easily understood summary of the dangers inherent in fiat money. Also available in .pdf format.
- Why the Gold Industry is Being Destroyed and What To Do About It
Source: Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education
Author: Lawrence Parks
Country: United States
- A concise, easily understood summary of why banks do not want money back on a gold standard.
- The Geodesic Economy
Source: Economic Government Group
Author: Robert A. Hettinga
Country: United States
- Some new -- and very interesting -- ideas on alternative currency.
- IMF plan hurts nations needing most help
Source: Mannkal
Author: Ron Manners
Country: Australia
- The IMF was applauded when it announced that it would sell-off some of its gold reserves and give the money to the 'poor people of the undeveloped countries' -- a move that subsequently depressed gold prices and hurt many poor nations with commodity-based economies. (8/99)
- The micropolitics of free-market money: A proposal
Source: Libertarian Alliance
Author: Antoine Clarke
Country: United States
- Clarke focuses on the problem of selling the idea of competing, private currencies to a skeptical audience. (1992)
- Review of Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, & Economic Order
Source: Free Nation Foundation/Formulations
Country: United States
- Steven Horwitz's book is positively reviewed for its complete treatment of free banking. "It's a great book for any economist, banker, or investor, if they like thinking theoretically or if they seek real-world examples of spontaneous monetary order." (1994/5)
- The solution
Source: The Freeman
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States
- [M]oney must be returned to the market economy, with all monetary functions performed within the structure of the rights of private property and of the free-market economy. (1995)
- How to save our economy from destruction
Source: The Freeman
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States
- "To save our economy from destruction and from the eventual holocaust of run away inflation, we the people must take the money-supply function back from the government." (11/95)
- Taking money back
Source: The Freeman
Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Country: United States
- "[T]he best way to penetrate the mysteries of the modern monetary and banking system is to realize that the government and its central bank act precisely as would a Grand Counterfeiter, with very similar social and economic effects." (9/95)
- Financial liberalization's effect on growth rates
Source: NCPA
Country: United States
- Using a large sample of countries since 1980, researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that financial liberalization led to a one percent increase on average in a country's annual growth rate over a five-year period. (03/15/02)
- Just say 'No' to 'extortion futures': why buying government bonds is a bad investment
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: James R. Elwood
Country: United States
- Most people think that buying government bonds is the safest investment you can make, and that the money is used for beneficial purposes. The truth is that lending money to governments causes more harm than good. It leads to higher taxes and wasteful spending. Also, bondholders almost always lose money -- and whatever they get comes from taxation, that is, legal extortion. ISIL pamphlet.
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