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		<title>The Failure of Mechanistic Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H. Salinas Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From: http://www.plata.com.mx/Mplata/articulos/articlesFilt.asp?fiidarticulo=181 20/February/2012 Hugo Salinas Price The first requirement for successful action upon the physical world is correct information about the facts upon which we are to act. The Wright brothers understood this requirement when they began their work to build a flying machine, because they began by a rudimentary but quite effective study of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Austrian School of Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Austrian Theory of Money, Credit, and Banking March 24 &#8211; April 2, 2012 (10am-12noon and 4pm-6pm) Also discussing: The Phenomenon of Economic Resonance The Linkage and Kondratieff´s Long-Wave Cycle Why Silver? Lecturer: Prof. Antal E. Fekete Guest Lecturers: Sandeep Jaitly (United Kingdom, www.bullionbasis.com) and Keith Weiner (United States of America) Location: Munich, Germany This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permanent Gold Backwardation</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/permanent-gold-backwardation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Keith Weiner The Root of the Problem Is Debt Worldwide, an incredible tower of debt has been under construction since President Nixon&#8217;s 1971 default on the gold obligations of the US government. His decree severed the redeemability of the dollar for gold and thus eliminated the extinguisher of debt. Debt has been growing exponentially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/02/a-tale-of-two-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent article from Professor Fekete.  It is indeed time to close ranks in the gold camp and unite behind ideas, not people; behind reason, not dogma.  Moving on from a wrong idea is far more dignified than loudly protesting how right one is in the face of obvious error.  The dreadful state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to 2012 &#8211; The Financial System and the Real Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Boulanger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8216;Prosper&#8217;(Issue 44: 31st January 2012), a newsletter put out by Louis Boulanger.  Louis is  an investment adviser and bullion retailer out of Auckland, New Zealand.  Louis has been a supporter of The Gold Standard Institute and a writer for our monthly journal &#8216;The Gold Standard&#8217; from their inceptions. Please excuse the poor formatting.  That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/gold-bonds-averting-financial-armageddon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This article is wholeheartedly recommended.  I regard it as the most significant document that I have read in over three decades of being involved with gold. In ‘Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon’ Mr. Weiner, a senior advisor to The Gold Standard Institute, provides a roadmap out of this dreadful mess. The realistic scenario that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Premature Obituaries for the U.S. Dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/premature-obituaries-for-the-u-s-dollar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/premature-obituaries-for-the-u-s-dollar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Antal E. Fekete 01/18/2012 It is open season for wild monetary prognostications. More premature obituaries on the dollar have been posted on the Internet. For example, see Jim Willie’s The US Dollar Paper Tiger (Financial Sense, January 11) with epitaphs like “the U.S. dollar rising to the cemetery”, or “dollar death dance”. Or see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation: An Expansion of Counterfeit Credit</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2012/01/inflation-an-expansion-of-counterfeit-credit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Inflation: An Expansion of Counterfeit Credit © Jan 4, 2012 Keith Weiner The common definition of inflation is “an increase in consumer prices”, and deflation is “a decrease in consumer prices.” A corollary is the old myth: “a fine suit costs the same in gold as it did in 1912, one ounce.” Why should that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream Economists’ Monetary Insanity</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/mainstream-economists%e2%80%99-monetary-insanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/mainstream-economists%e2%80%99-monetary-insanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete Paul Krugman&#8217;s article in the December 15 issue of The New York Times under the title G.O.P. Monetary Madness takes G.O.P. presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul to task for his &#8216;ideological&#8217; stand on money. For excellent reasons, not all of which had to do with fear of a Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation, the Constitution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suspend Habeas Corpus and Enact Martial Law?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/suspend-habeas-corpus-and-enact-martial-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/suspend-habeas-corpus-and-enact-martial-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chris Powell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the era of the Gold Standard was a period of ever greater freedom and prosperity, so the dying of paper pseudo-money will be accompanied by ever greater curtailment of that same freedom and prosperity. PB Chris Powell: Suspend habeas corpus and enact martial law? by Chris Powell &#8211; GATA &#8211; December 12th, 2011 Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Gold Symposium Synopsis</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/sydney-gold-symposium-synopsis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/sydney-gold-symposium-synopsis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jacq Ludwig, one of the original supporters of the Institute, kindly wrote a synopsis on the Sydney Gold Symposium in Sydney.  For those of you who could not make it, here is as good a summary of the event as you will read anywhere. © Jacq Ludwig 14th &#38; 15th November, 2011 &#8211; Luna Park, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Reason Entirely</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-wrong-reason-entirely/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-wrong-reason-entirely/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This man is wrong… dangerously so.  His message is one that serves to prolong the problem, not to solve it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5RxhahHK0 He is pointing the finger away from the true cause.  Some, most, do it unwittingly.  I am not at all sure that this is so in this instance. It is NOT the corporate culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Golden Triangle &#8211; Economic Nirvana?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-golden-triangle-economic-nirvana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/12/the-golden-triangle-economic-nirvana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudy Fritsch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The follow up to this article by Rudy Fritsch is entitled &#8216;A Four Legged Stool&#8217; and will be published in The Gold Standard, the journal of the Institute which comes out on the 15th of each month.  PB ____ My last article, Golden Foot in the Door, suggested that if Gold coins and Gold bonds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nouriel Roubini&#8217;s Terrible Lapse In Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/nouriel-roubinis-terrible-lapse-in-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/nouriel-roubinis-terrible-lapse-in-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Forbes Magazine by Ralph Benko “It’s not even a theory; it is a theology.”  So Nouriel Roubini, with his best Strangelovian inflection, describes the gold standard to Yahoo Finance’s The Daily Ticker, and in doing so displays shocking ignorance of the gold standard and either the work of Ben Bernanke or a presumption that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Crude Awakening</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-crude-awakening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-crude-awakening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following article is posted at GoldMoney, here &#60;http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/alasdair-macleod/a-crude-awakening.html&#62; 2011-NOV-26 One of the joys of interviewing some of the best brains in the world of finance and economics is that they alert you to important factors that perhaps you haven’t fully considered. This was my experience with Chris Martenson in Madrid last week (the interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Jewish Opposition to the Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/anti-jewish-opposition-to-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/anti-jewish-opposition-to-the-gold-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Jewish Opposition to the Gold Standard Thomas Allen Some opponents of the gold standard reject it because they see it as part of the Jewish conspiracy to control the world. They cite the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to support their claim. The Protocols mention gold several times. Protocol 2: In the hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thomas Bachheimer Interview &#8211; in German</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/thomas-bachheimer-interview-in-german/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/thomas-bachheimer-interview-in-german/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Bachheimer]]></category>

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		<title>An Austrian Economic View</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/an-austrian-economic-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/an-austrian-economic-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011-NOV-12 In the last two weeks the headlines have switched from Greece to Italy. Financial and economic commentators who dismissed Greece as a small cog in the Euroland machine are now seriously alarmed and see no solution to Europe’s sovereign debt crisis other than the short-term expedient of getting the European Central Bank to print [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberty Prosperity Peace</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/liberty-prosperity-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/liberty-prosperity-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Prosperity Peace Oddly enough The Gold Standard Institute is not so much concerned with gold, as it is with the right to reclaim a decent and just society. The edifice known as civilization can only be built upon a foundation of gold.  That is an ageless truth that applied to Egyptian, Roman, Mesoamerican and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Gold Standard Is Big Oil&#8217;s Best Defense Against Political Attack</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-gold-standard-is-big-oils-best-defense-against-political-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/11/a-gold-standard-is-big-oils-best-defense-against-political-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles Kadlec]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Charles Kadlec this article is from Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/charleskadlec/2011/10/31/a-gold-standard-is-big-oils-best-defense-against-political-attack/ “The process (of debauching the currency) engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” — John Maynard Keynes Major oil companies are fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound Money is a Human Right</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/sound-money-is-a-human-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/sound-money-is-a-human-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alasdair Macleod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speech given to the Committee for Monetary Research and Education Alasdair Macleod At the Fall Meeting, 20th October 2011. Before addressing the consequences of today’s macro-economic policies I want to tell you my philosophy. I support sound money for two very good reasons: 1.      Firstly, it is a basic human right to choose to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash Transactions Banned by Louisiana</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/cash-transactions-banned-by-louisiana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across the following at: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/cash-transactions-banned-by-louisiana_10192011 The  measures to keep the paper money game going are becoming ever more desperate. &#160;  Thad D. Ackel, Jr. October 19th, 2011 Ackel &#38; Associates This article has been generously contributed by Thad D. Ackel, Jr. Esq., an advocate for private property rights and economic and civil liberty. Visit his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Gold Stock is There Really?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/how-much-gold-stock-is-there-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Prologue This was added after the article below was first published.  I was accused by a few of being speculative, though I had admitted as such throughout the article.  It is possibly best to explain the thought process behind the article… It goes without saying that the best method for establishing a valid story is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irredeemable Paper Money vs Gold-Keith Weiner</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/irredeemable-paper-money-vs-gold-keith-weiner-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Audiences today are eager to understand what is really happening in our financial system, and for a way out of the false alternative: (a) Keynes / Friedman / Modern Monetary Theory / Econometrics /obsession with consumer prices vs. (b) a &#8220;pure, 100% backed&#8221; (so called) gold standard without banking or lending I recently presented my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Chinese Unemployment?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/what-chinese-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antal E. Fekete “There is gold in them thar hills!” Occasionally we read in various columns of mainstream journalists that the Chinese have shot themselves in the foot when they (in violence of Friedmanite precepts) failed to revalue their currency upwards. The world will retaliate by imposing punitive tariffs, creating horrible unemployment in China and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Streeters Should Be Livid About Losing The Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/occupy-wall-streeters-should-be-livid-about-losing-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/occupy-wall-streeters-should-be-livid-about-losing-the-gold-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Bonner The debt-slave rebellion! Get ready, it&#8217;s coming, the uprising of the popolo minuto, the revolt of the masses…the Jacquerie! I&#8217;ve read reports on Occupy Wall Street and the worldwide demonstrations in The Washington Post, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. Nowhere was there the slightest hint at the real problem. Nobody&#8217;s interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silver Dollar 1873–1900 – Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873%e2%80%931900-%e2%80%93-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873%e2%80%931900-%e2%80%93-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 03:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bland-Allison Act Thomas Allen [Editor’s note: Footnotes in the original are omitted.] With the Bland-Allison Act, in 1878, Congress authorized minting silver dollars. The law ordered the Secretary of the Treasury to buy silver bullion and coin it; it did not open the mint to the free coinage of silver. Silver dollars were declared standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Second Crisis of Socialism</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-second-crisis-of-socialism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-second-crisis-of-socialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Crisis of Socialism Detlev Schlichter The world is facing the worst financial crisis since at least the 1930s, &#8220;if not ever,&#8221; the governor of the Bank of England said last week, when he explained to an increasingly sceptical and weary public the bank&#8217;s decision to print yet more fiat money and use it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Silver Dollar 1873 &#8211; 1900 Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873-1900-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/10/the-silver-dollar-1873-1900-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Allen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Monday, September 5, 2011 The Silver Dollar 1873–1900 – Part 1 Introduction and Coinage Act of 1873 Thomas Allen [Editor’s note: Footnotes in the original are omitted.] Introduction Many people claim that sliver was demonetized in 1873 when Congress enacted the Coinage Act of 1873. This claim is not true. Congress did not demonetize silver. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Honest Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/the-honest-gold-standard1829/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Mr Ralph Benko is a prolific and intelligent contributor to the gold debate and a brother-in-arms in the drive to have gold reinstated into the system.  His contribution to the cause is to be commended.  Whilst at The Gold Standard Institute we strive for an unadulterated Gold Standard, I am more than happy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Destiny of Mankind Hinges Upon Gold</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/the-destiny-of-mankind-hinges-upon-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/the-destiny-of-mankind-hinges-upon-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H. Salinas Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hugo Salinas Price plata@plata.com.mx I must have read fifty accounts, in the FT and others of that ilk, about what went wrong with the Euro. I have yet to read one that comes out with the plain, unvarnished truth. The whole bloody Establishment of bankers, politicians, economists and journalist whores sings the same song: &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Twist: The Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/operation-twist-the-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/operation-twist-the-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Keith Weiner, on September 21st, 2011 For months, even before the end of QE2, analysts and prognosticators have been saying the Fed will have to do another QE and another, endlessly.  These folks were surprised when it didn’t come last month, and predicted confidently that it would come this month especially because Bernanke extended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the Dollar Really Worth?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/what-is-the-dollar-really-worth1814/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/what-is-the-dollar-really-worth1814/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What Is The Dollar Really Worth? By Keith Weiner, on September 19th, 2011 The dollar valued in terms of gold: Behind this pithy graphic is a serious issue. How do we measure value? The paper currencies are (at best) elastic. Using a dollar to measure value is like using a rubber band to measure length. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Price of Gold Fixed Under The Gold Standard?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/is-the-price-of-gold-fixed-under-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/is-the-price-of-gold-fixed-under-the-gold-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Allen A common misunderstanding about a commodity standard is that the government fixes the price of the monetary commodity. Many people believe that under the gold standard, the government fixes the price of gold. For example, if an ounce of gold exchanges for $20, the government has fixed the price of gold at $20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash4Gold Means Gold for China?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/cash4gold-means-gold-for-china/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/09/cash4gold-means-gold-for-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Publius &#8211; First published 15th March, 2011 in The Gold Standard &#8211; the journal of The Gold Standard Institute. Inflation is appearing in global food prices, arguably the main cause of recent Mid-East unrest.  Economic shocks from the spreading revolution are further stressing the fiat currency system.  Central banks may need to expand their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hip-Pocket Nerve</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/the-hip-pocket-nerve/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Office of President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The date of issue of the last &#8216;The Gold Standard&#8217;, was the 40th anniversary of the extraordinary day that the US defaulted.  President Nixon &#8211; Tricky Dick &#8211; lived up to his nickname and, with a stroke of his pen and a flourish of his forked tongue, severed the US$ from gold. This is well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monetary Revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/monetary-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/monetary-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa-Maria Sommer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Bachheimer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Authored by Thomas Bachheimer (European President of The Gold Standard Institute) and Lisa-Maria Sommer “The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” &#8211; John Maynard Keynes This quotation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>S&amp;P Downgrade of Uncle Sam</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/sp-downgrade-of-uncle-sam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/sp-downgrade-of-uncle-sam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Keith Weiner Aug 15, 2011 12:00 pm Government debt paper is debt paper. Money &#8212; gold &#8212; is money. By now, everyone knows that S&#38;P downgraded the debt of the USA from their top rating, AAA, to their second-highest grade, AA+. Most of the commentary has been of the pin-the-blame-on-the-donkey variety. For all most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOO LATE TO JUMP ON THE GOLDWAGON?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/too-late-to-jump-on-the-goldwagon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/too-late-to-jump-on-the-goldwagon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Egon von Greyerz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an excellent summation of the current situation from Egon von Greyerz.  He will be speaking in Sydney, Australia this year at the Symposium Hard Money Conference. &#8220;Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ZERO&#8221; &#8211; Voltaire 1729 TOO LATE TO JUMP ON THE GOLDWAGON? By Egon von Greyerz , August 15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling Interest Rates and Duration Mismatch</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/falling-interest-rates-and-duration-mismatch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright Aug 2011 by Keith Weiner Since 1982, US Treasuries have been in a bull market. This is Exhibit A: the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond (the yield and the market price of the bond are inversely related, like a teeter-totter). This statement should not be controversial. But outside Austrian circles, most people don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quacks and Quackery Through the Ages. A &#8216;divertimento&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/quacks-and-quackery-through-the-ages-a-divertimento/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/quacks-and-quackery-through-the-ages-a-divertimento/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[H. Salinas Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[28/July/2011 Hugo Salinas Price Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire, in August 1521 (490 years ago, next month). When the war was over, the Spanish began to investigate the culture of the conquered people and found, to their amazement, that the people of what is now Mexico possessed a vast body of medical knowledge based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eurozone Debt Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/the-eurozone-debt-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/08/the-eurozone-debt-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandeep Jaitly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sandeep Jaitly &#8211; London The problems facing the countries that comprise the Eurozone are becoming more well-known. The problem, apparently, only gravitates around the &#8216;peripheral&#8217; economies of Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece and Ireland. Is this a fair assessment? Are all the other countries in a much better fiscal position? The short answer is no. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNBC Interview With Thomas Bachheimer-Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/cnbc-interview-with-thomas-bachheimer-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the sound problems associated with the aborted interview last Friday, CNBC have contacted Thomas Bachheimer and courteously offered him another interview. It will probably take place in the London studio. The details will be posted here as soon as a definite date and time is known.]]></description>
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		<title>Gold is Money and Nothing Else.  Why?</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/gold-is-money-and-nothing-else-why/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/gold-is-money-and-nothing-else-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this essay is a quote from JP Morgan.  Despite being officially vanquished from the financial system, people have not treated it as a barbarous relic or a commodity like frozen pork bellies.  My goal in this essay is to explain why. Gold is a physical good, a commodity.  Unlike fiat paper money, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banca de reserva fraccional: la historia verdadera</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/banca-de-reserva-fraccional-la-historia-verdadera/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/banca-de-reserva-fraccional-la-historia-verdadera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Weiner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Por Keith Wiener - The Truman Factor have translated Keith&#8217;s article on Fractional Reserve Banking into Spanish. Here is the link: http://trumanfactor.com/2011/banca-reserva-fraccional/]]></description>
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		<title>CNBC Interview with Thomas Bachheimer</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/cnbc-interview-with-thomas-bachheimer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/cnbc-interview-with-thomas-bachheimer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately there were some sound issues which meant that the interview had to be prematurely terminated. Nevertheless, it was a great result. http://wuz.ramerotech.at/download/cnbc_2011-07-22.avi]]></description>
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		<title>Stock to Flow Ratio &#8211; A Primer</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/stock-to-flow-ratio-a-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/stock-to-flow-ratio-a-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Barton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Barton - The importance of gold&#8217;s stock to flow ratio is greatly underestimated. I first came across the concept in 2009 at a lecture by Professor Antal E. Fekete in Szombathely, Hungary. It fascinated me and the more I looked at its implications, the more amazed that I became, not least of which because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman: &#8220;Gold bugs have taken over the GOP&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/krugman-gold-bugs-have-taken-over-the-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/krugman-gold-bugs-have-taken-over-the-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Ralph J. Benko in the US. http://www.thegoldstandardnow.org/key-blogs/558-krugman-in-the-new-york-times-qgold-bugs-have-taken-over-the-gopq Krugman: &#8220;Gold bugs have taken over the GOP&#8221; Written by Ralph J. Benko Monday, July 11, 2011 This just in: In a July 6 New York Times &#8220;Conscience of a Liberal,&#8221; in an entry entitled The Armageddon Caucus, columnist and Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman &#8212; perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNBC Interview &#8211; The Gold Standard</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/cnbc-interview-the-gold-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/cnbc-interview-the-gold-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gold and Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 22nd July at 8:10am (Zurich time) Thomas Bachheimer, the Vice-President of The Gold Standard Institute, will be interviewed on CNBC international. The interview is on the Gold Standard in Switzerland, the subject of which has suddenly become an issue in the parliament.  If at all possible tune in and watch and listen.]]></description>
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		<title>Government Deficit Spending is Paid Every Day</title>
		<link>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/government-deficit-spending-is-paid-every-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.goldstandardinstitute.net/2011/07/government-deficit-spending-is-paid-every-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Barton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[H. Salinas Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[- Hugo Salinas Price &#8211; July 11, 2011 There is a lot of public concern in the US, about the “excessive borrowing”  by the Government; it has to go on borrowing in order to continue in a spending  mode, and Congress is locked in a debate: Republicans want to cut (some) spending,  Democrats want to [...]]]></description>
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