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Robert Shiller on Bitcoin and Bimetallism

Larry White/February 11, 2020June 19, 2022

When Bitcoin’s price spiked in 2017, so did public mentions of the cryptocurrency, as measured by a Google n-gram plot. When William Jennings Bryan promoted bimetallism during his run for President in 1896, mentions of bimetallism similarly spiked. Noting this parallel, economist Robert Shiller compares the two…

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Commodity Money, Economic History, Fiat Money, Money & Politics

Monetary Standards: An Introduction

Gerald P O'Driscoll/April 10, 2015June 19, 2022

A monetary standard is a set of institutions and rules governing the supply of money in an economy. These rules and institutions collectively constrain the production of money. Through its constraints on money creation, the standard indirectly acts on prices. A monetary standard may also affect the…

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