Sound Money Principles

We have spent centuries searching for money that governments cannot debase. Gold served that purpose for most of recorded history — not because anyone

In 1871, Carl Menger published *Principles of Economics* and offered an explanation for why money exists that required no king, no decree, and no cent

Saifedean Ammous opened the third chapter of *The Bitcoin Standard* with an observation that deserves to be stated plainly: gold did not become money

There is a tax that requires no legislation, no vote, no public debate. It is never itemized on a pay stub. It does not appear on a ballot. It is coll

The Federal Reserve's own educational materials state, plainly, that most money in the modern economy is created by commercial banks through the act o

There is a pattern in how power responds to threats. It does not simply resist the new thing; it absorbs the language of the new thing, hollows out it

In 1976, Friedrich Hayek published a slim, radical book called *Denationalisation of Money*. His proposal was straightforward: let private entities is

Richard Cantillon was an Irish-French economist and banker who, in the 1730s, wrote what is arguably the first systematic treatise on economics. His *

We have spent the previous articles establishing what sound money is, why the current system fails to provide it, and how both cryptocurrency and CBDC

Most economics curricula treat the economy as a machine — inputs, outputs, levers to pull. If you have ever built anything with your hands or run a sm