Murray Rothbard Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

  Murray Rothbard

  Country, Money, Air

• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Commodity

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Tickets

  "Taking Money Back" by Murray Rothbard, The Freeman, September-October 1995.

• It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Champion, Gold, Facts

• Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people's use of gold itself.

  Murray Rothbard

  Encouragement, Money, Government

• I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Gold, Want

• Never have the world's moneys been so long cut off from their metallic roots.

  Murray Rothbard

  Cutting, Roots, Long

  Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.755, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

  Murray Rothbard

  People, Gold, Coins

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