Cryptocurrency: Fixes Corrupt Monetary Policy, Ends Criminal Poverty, Restores Economics

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A Short Essay On Sound Monetary Policy

https://mises.org/wire/short-essay-sound-monetary-policy
https://mises.org/books/sound_money_salerno.pdf
https://mises.org/library/inflation-inferno-i
https://mises.org/books/tmc.pdf
https://mises.org/humanaction/pdf/HumanActionScholars.pdf

This will be brief, appropriate to the topic at hand.

It consists of a quote from Milton Friedman found in Joseph Salerno’s
outstanding book, Money: Sound and Unsound:

    If a domestic money consists of a commodity, [such as] a pure gold
standard or cowrie bead standard, the principles of monetary policy
are very simple. There aren’t any. The commodity money takes care of
itself. (emphasis added)

Imagine that. If we have sound money, we don’t need the Fed. Or
Congress. We just need sound money.

End of essay.


Postscript:

Economist Nouriel Roubini once attacked the gold standard:

    Roubini raises the following question: If you are on a gold
standard, or modified gold standard, what do you do in the event of a
bank run—if you don’t have enough gold to fully back the currency?

Translated: What happens if the banks have created bogus IOUs for
their depositors’ gold? Suggestion: Have them indicted for fraud. Gold
doesn’t “back” anything. It is the money. The banks issue IOUs for the
money. When they issue more IOUs than they have gold on hand, they’re
cheating.

Murray Rothbard:

    In my view, issuing promises to pay on demand in excess of the
amount of the goods on hand is simply fraud, and should be so
considered by the legal system . . .

    This is legalized counterfeiting; this is the creation of money
without the necessity of production, to compete for resources against
those who have produced.

    In short, I believe that fractional-reserve banking is disastrous
both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions
of the market economy.

Roubini also says that a “gold standard limits the flexibility and
range of actions that central banks can take.” He thinks it’s a
shortcoming, but that alone should recommend it.

At the start of World War I, the belligerent governments went off the
gold standard so they could fight the bloodiest war in human history.
Gold, since it can’t be created on demand, would have severely limited
the “flexibility and range of actions” governments could take.

Sound money is not a product of central bank policy decisions. But who
cares about sound money when you want to engage in massive human
slaughter?

More recently, Roubini said, “The world is on a slow-motion train wreck.”

The unmolested gold coin standard avoids train wrecks, “Dr. Doom,” by
staying on track.

A gold standard doesn’t need Roubini. It doesn’t need Jerome Powell.
It doesn’t need Congress. It doesn’t need the World Bank or the
International Monetary Fund. It doesn’t need the WEF, the FOMC, or
AOC.

It just needs to be left alone.

The gold standard “requires nothing else than that the government
abstain from deliberately sabotaging it,” Ludwig von Mises wrote in
The Theory of Money and Credit.

    What all the enemies of the gold standard spurn as its main vice
is precisely the same thing that in the eyes of the advocates of the
gold standard is its main virtue, namely its incompatibility with a
policy of credit expansion. The nucleus of all the effusions of the
anti-gold authors and politicians is the expansionist fallacy.

Credit expansion—inflation—is indispensable to a growing government.
>From Human Action:

    The gold standard removes the determination of cash-induced
changes in purchasing power from the political arena. Its general
acceptance requires the acknowledgment of the truth that one cannot
make all people richer by printing money. The abhorrence of the gold
standard is inspired by the superstition that omnipotent governments
can create wealth out of little scraps of paper.

If wealth could be created out of scraps of paper or their digital
equivalent, world poverty would be a thing of the past.

Remember, the commodity money takes care of itself—and us too, if we let it.