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Gold, Peace, and Prosperity
Gold, Peace, and Prosperity is a free lecture series (1 recordings, 1.5 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Ron Paul.
Ron Paul's booklet Gold, Peace, and Prosperity, read in full, argues for a gold coin standard. It surveys paper-money debasement from ancient China to the 1971 end of dollar-gold convertibility, with forewords by Henry Hazlitt and Murray Rothbard.
Read the book: Gold, Peace, and Prosperity by Ron Paul, free to download here.
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Gold, Peace, and Prosperity
Ron Paul argues dollar depreciation since 1913 and 1971 amounts to legalized counterfeiting. He traces monetary history from the gold coin standard through Bretton Woods to the managed fiat dollar and calls for repealing legal tender laws and restoring a 100 percent redeemable gold coin standard.
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- Is Gold, Peace, and Prosperity free to listen to?
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- 1 recording, 1.5 hours in total.
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- Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 10,870 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.
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