Here is an interview with Thomas Jacob regarding an effort in Switzerland to introduce a competing currency - a gold franc. This is not some kind of pipe-dream, but has been introduced as a "parliamentary initiative" on March 8. Moreover, the Swiss can place any issue on the national ballot with only 100,000 signatures.
I like the way he frames the issue as one of freedom of choice. Even if Socialist-Keynsian Republican-Democrat welfare-warfare statists are opposed to hard currency, who could argue with freedom of choice? If hard currency is a bad idea, the free market will prove it. If a fiat dollar is more reliable than gold, it will outperform the gold franc.
Right?
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