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Episode 262: David Friedman on the Gold Standard
Words & Numbers
English - February 16, 2022 15:30 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 336 ratingsEducation Business education current economics events government libertarian liberty news policy politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
David Friedman joins us to talk about the gold standard: why one existed at all, why we went off it, and what would happen if we reinstituted it.
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