Fiat money gold and silver coins from France. Eventually, the Governor of New France acknowledged their useful role as a circulating medium of exchange. As the finances of the French government deteriorated because of European wars, it reduced its financial support for its colonies, so the colonial authorities in Canada relied more and more on card money. By 1757, the government had discontinued all payments in coin and payments were made in paper instead. In an application of Gresham’s Law – bad money drives out good – people hoarded gold and silver, and used paper money instead. The costs of the war
Good Calories, Bad Calories "well-researched" and opines that Taubes’s conclusions are "somewhat startling yet surprisingly convincing." Journalism professor and food author Michael Pollan describes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" as "valuable" but believes that it "does not escape the confines of nutritionism." "New York Times" medical reporter Gina Kolata concluded that she was ultimately "not convinced" by Taubes’s arguments, writing that "the problem with a book like this one, which goes on and on in great detail […] is that it can be hard to know what has been left out." Laura Vanderkam reviewed the book somewhat negatively in "The American", the journal of the