Specifically Dr. Mary Ruwart, who is one of my favorite people anyway! Thanks, Dr. Ruwart, your answers alone make it worth subscribing, IMO. I think I'll click a bit of e-gold to the Advocates now, since I haven't done that lately.
Hey Paul, have you seen http://102536.clicktwocents.com and http://www.fastsci.com/?102536-1 yet? Now ANY account can be easily configured to work with the SCI! :) JMR Excerpt from: THE LIBERATOR ONLINE March 26, 2002 Vol. 7, No. 6 Circulation: 52,648 in 105 countries Published by the Advocates for Self-Government. Created and edited by Paul Schmidt, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Co-edited by James W. Harris, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________ ... <mega-snip!> ASK DR. RUWART How can you answer difficult questions about libertarianism -- in short, positive, persuasive soundbite-sized responses? It's a challenge every libertarian communicator faces. Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication, and author of the international bestseller Healing Our World. In this column she gives readers "short answers to the tough questions" that libertarians are frequently asked. If you'd like Dr. Ruwart to craft effective answers to YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian issues, just email the questions to her at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . *Due to volume, Dr. Ruwart can't personally answer or acknowledge all email queries.* But we'll run the best questions -- and Dr. Ruwart's answers -- in upcoming issues. Dr. Ruwart's past answers are archived in searchable form at http://www.self-gov.org/ruwart/ * * * Gold or silver: which metal is best for currency? Question: "While a gold standard might be nice, as pointed out in a previous "Ask Dr. Ruwart" question gold is useful in many applications including electronics. Wouldn't America's original standard, silver, be a better backer for our currency?" My short answer: "Any commodity would be superior to paper currency, which is backed only by a government's promise to tax its citizens, either directly, or indirectly through inflation. In a libertarian society with today's technology, different currencies might be backed by different commodities. Indeed, that's the case today at "e-gold LTD," a private company that issues an online metal-backed "electronic currency." E-gold users can make their transactions in silver, gold, platinum, or palladium (though gold remains by far the most popular metal for that company's customers). "Such diversity allows consumers to spread their assets over a variety of currencies to protect them from fluctuations that might occur due to changes in mining, commercial use, etc." --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
