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James Turk

James Turk has specialized in international banking, finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a BA degree in International Economics. He is the author of two books and several monographs and articles on money and banking. He is the co-author of "The Coming Collapse of the Dollar" (Doubleday, December 2004).

 
 
The history of money and wealth, Part II - by James Turk

...The US would eventually join the classical gold standard, but as a developing country, achieving monetary stability involved the predictable growing pains...


The history of money and wealth - by James Turk

...Just as a given word means the same thing over years and centuries, allowing language to convey ideas from one generation to the next, money communicates the measurement of wealth...


Why fiat currencies are doomed to fail - by James Turk

...Fiat (ie. government-controlled) currencies will become ever less valuable, until most of us just give up on them altogether...



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