Bimetallic Nightmare

02/19/2010 Garet Garrett

Congress decreed that gold and silver dollars should be interchangeable and put upon the Treasury a mandate to keep them equal in value. How? By what magic? Why, by the magic of a phrase, writes Garet Garrett (1878–1954).

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