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telegraph.co.uk - 3/30/2009

Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial crisis

— telegraph.co.uk — Russia has become the first major country to call for a partial restoration of the Gold Standard... to uphold discipline in the world financial system. (more) Russia backs return to Gold Standard to solve financial ...

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nbclosangeles.com - 3/27/2009

The New California Gold Rush

— nbclosangeles.com — Within an hour of downtown Los Angeles, people are seeking that one sure commodity."I'm here to find... gold," said Kevin Brown. "I'm a studio lighting technician in Hollywood, between the writers strike that happened last year, and the Screen Actors ... (more) The New California Gold Rush

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lefarkins.blogspot.com - 4/1/2009

Always the Gold Standard in Wingnuttery

— lefarkins.blogspot.com — Shorter Erick Erickson : If laws requiring the use of environmentally safe dishwahser detergent aren't a good... reason to contemplate severe violence against government officials, I don't know what is. In addition, these kinds of state regulations ... (more) Always the Gold Standard in Wingnuttery

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Are We Handcuffed by Golden Fetters?
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... What’s our gold standard?: I’ve just reread Eichengreen and Temin, The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, which does a great job of showing how the “gold mentality” — what they call mentalite, with an accent — paralyzed policymakers. (The longer-form version, with more personal color, is Liaquat Ahamad’s Lords of Finance.) What E&T show is that circa 1930 key decision-makers had spent so many years equating adherence to gold not just with prosperity, but with morality, decency, civilization itself, that they couldn’t even ...