On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Andy Bradford <amb-pl...@bradfords.org> wrote: > Thus said Richard Esplin on Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:33:59 -0700: > >> This was how money worked in the United states until the end of the >> 19th century. No clear market winner emerged. It was a mess. > > What were the causes of the mess? Who were the competitors? How did they > compete? Did they receive any special privileges from States or were > they businesses that operated just like any other business, subject to > profit and loss?
Is Andy Bradford capable of replying to an email in any form other than a really tedious string of rhetorical questions? Could he actually provide statements of fact that would back up the applicability to the theories implied by his questions to the real world? Could it be that government coercion is not the only possible reason why we don't have a bunch of competing currencies in our markets today? Will Andy continue to ignore the possibility? --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */