Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for November 09, 2023

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    Imagine  12 months ago

    What Gaul!

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    constantine48  12 months ago

    We can “trust” government to do a lot of things, but trusting them with our money isn’t one of them.

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    sandpiper  12 months ago

    Don’t get the reference to gold.

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    BigDaveGlass  12 months ago

    https://www.archives.Gov/publications/prologue/1999/spring/

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    ACK! Premium Member 12 months ago

    https://www.usagold.Com/cpmforum/favorite-web-pages-degaulle/

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    dbrucepm  12 months ago

    get some water boiling, lets use it to make gold soup

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    Gameguy49 Premium Member 12 months ago

    In WWII De Gaule was NOT trusted by the allies.

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    The Goon Show Premium Member 12 months ago

    When BC does strips like this one it always makes me wonder if it is really set in the far future after a societal ending event and they are rediscovering the past.

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    Robert Wilson Premium Member 12 months ago

    During his presidency, De Gaulle promoted the international gold standard as a counterbalance to the U.S. dollar becoming the de facto international currency of business, which he saw as threatening France’s international status. He also wanted to repatriate France’s gold bullion off-shore reserves from London and New York, remembering how the allies refused to allow him to access them during WW-II because he was not yet officially recognized as the leader of the Free French.

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    Mark Jackson Premium Member 12 months ago

    Gold standard (or any other mechanism that establishes fixed exchange rates between currencies) is a bad idea. Long-term changes in the economic relations between nations inevitably stress the system; speculators exploit the stresses until the system is forced to respond with a step-change in rates. Better to have this happen gradually.

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