Barry Eichengreen vs. Paul Ryan
Fortunately I don't have to write on the merits of returning to the gold standard, because I already have: tinyurl.com/3npuw5d .
— Barry Eichengreen (@B_Eichengreen) August 24, 2012
One thing that Barry does not note is that real Randites--like Paul Ryan was, or at least claimed to be, back in 2005--are opposed to the whole financial apparatus that keeps us from having to carry bars of gold around: fractional-reserve banking, paper money, credit cards, checks, bills-of-exchange--they don't like it…
