In The Absence Of The Gold Standard,

When Trust Is Lost, A Nation's Ability To Transact Business Is Palpably Undermined.

I Have One Other Issue I'd Like To Throw On The Table. I Hesitate To Do It, But Let Me Tell You Some Of The Issues That Are Involved Here. If We Are Dealing With Psychology, Then The Thermometers One Uses To Measure It Have An Effect. I Was Raising The Question On The Side With Governor Mullins Of What Would Happen If The Treasury Sold A Little Gold In This Market. There's An Interesting Question Here Because If The Gold Price Broke In That Context, The Thermometer Would Not Be Just A Measuring Tool. It Would Basically Affect The Underlying Psychology.

History Demonstrates That Participants In Financial Markets Are Susceptible To Waves Of Optimism. Excessive Optimism Shows The Seeds Of Its Own Reversal In The Form Of Imbalances That Tend To Grow Over Time.

We Ought To Be Opening Up Our Borders To Skilled Labour From All Parts Of The World Because [the State Of The World Is As Follows: ] If We Were To Do That We Would Increase The Supply Of Skilled Workers That Our Schools Have Been Unable To Create And As A Consequence Of That We Would Lower The Average Wage Of Skills And Reduce The Degree Of Income Inequality In This Country.

The Abandonment Of The Gold Standard Made It Possible For The Welfare Statists To Use The Banking System As A Means To An Unlimited Expansion Of Credit. In The Absence Of The Gold Standard, There Is No Way To Protect Savings From Confiscation Through Inflation. There Is No Safe Store Of Value. Deficit Spending Is Simply A Scheme For The Hidden Confiscation Of Wealth. Gold Stands In The Way Of This Insidious Process. It Stands As A Protector Of Property Rights. If One Grasps This, One Has No Difficulty In Understanding The Statists' Antagonism Toward The Gold Standard.