Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

It is particularly odd that economists who profess to be champions of a free-market economy, should go to such twists and turns to avoid facing the plain fact: that gold, that scarce and valuable market-produced metal, has always been, and will continue to be, by far the best money for human society.

The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately.

I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.