wsj we need to go back to gold standard, page-8

This line is brilliant:

"Now is the time to challenge the exclusive monopoly of Federal Reserve notes as currency."

Has this bloke been put in jail or something (not a Californian jail - no room and no money), 'cos what he suggests goes to the very framework of a modern society. He is attacking one of the allusions that we are all supposed to unquestionably except.

In normal times such thoughts would not amount to much. But these ain't normal times. I can't believe that the WSJ allowed such.


- pug