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Mises: A Short Essay on Sound Monetary Policy

Guest post by George Ford Smith from the Mises Institute:

This will be brief, appropriate to the topic at hand. It consists of a quote from Milton Friedman found in Joseph Salerno’s outstanding book, Money: Sound and Unsound:

If a domestic money consists of a commodity, [such as] a pure gold standard or cowrie bead standard, the principles of monetary policy are very simple. There aren’t any. The commodity money takes care of itself. (emphasis added)

Imagine that. If we have sound money, we don’t need the Fed. Or Congress. We just need sound money.

End of essay.

Postscript:

Economist Nouriel Roubini once attacked the gold standard:

Roubini raises the following question: If you are on a gold standard, or modified gold standard, what do you do in the event of a bank run—if you don’t have enough gold to fully back the currency?

Translated: What happens if the banks have created bogus IOUs for their depositors’ gold? Suggestion: Have them indicted for fraud. Gold doesn’t “back” anything. It is the money. The banks issue IOUs for the money. When they issue more IOUs than they have gold on hand, they’re cheating.

Murray Rothbard:

In my view, issuing promises to pay on demand in excess of the amount of the goods on hand is simply fraud, and should be so considered by the legal system . . .

This is legalized counterfeiting; this is the creation of money without the necessity of production, to compete for resources against those who have produced.

In short, I believe that fractional-reserve banking is disastrous both for the morality and for the fundamental bases and institutions of the market economy.

Roubini also says that a “gold standard limits the flexibility and range of actions that central banks can take.” He thinks it’s a shortcoming, but that alone should recommend it.

At the start of World War I, the belligerent governments went off the gold standard so they could fight the bloodiest war in human history. Gold, since it can’t be created on demand, would have severely limited the “flexibility and range of actions” governments could take.

Sound money is not a product of central bank policy decisions. But who cares about sound money when you want to engage in massive human slaughter?

More recently, Roubini said, “The world is on a slow-motion train wreck.”

The unmolested gold coin standard avoids train wrecks, “Dr. Doom,” by staying on track.

A gold standard doesn’t need Roubini. It doesn’t need Jerome Powell. It doesn’t need Congress. It doesn’t need the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund. It doesn’t need the WEF, the FOMC, or AOC.

It just needs to be left alone.

The gold standard “requires nothing else than that the government abstain from deliberately sabotaging it,” Ludwig von Mises wrote in The Theory of Money and Credit.

What all the enemies of the gold standard spurn as its main vice is precisely the same thing that in the eyes of the advocates of the gold standard is its main virtue, namely its incompatibility with a policy of credit expansion. The nucleus of all the effusions of the anti-gold authors and politicians is the expansionist fallacy.

Credit expansion—inflation—is indispensable to a growing government. From Human Action:

The gold standard removes the determination of cash-induced changes in purchasing power from the political arena. Its general acceptance requires the acknowledgment of the truth that one cannot make all people richer by printing money. The abhorrence of the gold standard is inspired by the superstition that omnipotent governments can create wealth out of little scraps of paper.

If wealth could be created out of scraps of paper or their digital equivalent, world poverty would be a thing of the past.

Remember, the commodity money takes care of itself—and us too, if we let it.

Guest post by George Ford Smith from the Mises Institute.


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One thought on "Mises: A Short Essay on Sound Monetary Policy"

  1. Rothbard and Von Mises were wrong about money creation. They pretended that the “fractional reserve banking model” is real. But it isn’t. And they pretended that government creates money which is then lent and relent numerous times by banks. This also isn’t true.

    The truth is that private banks create all dollars. These new, digital dollars are created out of thin air when banks issue loans. Banks create new, digital dollars with no need for prior reserves or deposits. These digital dollars (also called “bank credit”, “demand deposits”, and “customer deposits”) exist only in the computers of privately-owned banks. New digital dollars are created after the borrower signs the loan contract, and digital dollars are destroyed (extinguished) when the borrower repays the loan principal. There is never enough money in existence to repay the principal plus interest, so the debt to banks is literally unpayable and endless.

    Proofs at: bankLIESdotORG

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