What Has Government Done to Our Money? ethical agenda. Both essays are normally found together in one binding. In "The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar", Rothbard explains how having a currency permanently fixed by law at a certain weight in gold, and always redeemable in gold, greatly incentivizes governments and banks to be much more ethical, civil, and honest in their lending methods, accounting methods, and in their honorable pursuits of other profits related to managing and supplying money to society. He shows how any money, backed by gold or not, is a commodity. He argues any commodity could become a money and that every
The Purity of the Turf The Purity of the Turf "The Purity of the Turf" is the third episode of the first series of the 1990s British comedy television series "Jeeves and Wooster". It is also called "The Village Sports Day at Twing" or "The Gambling Event." It first aired on on ITV. Adapted from "Indian Summer of an Uncle" (from "Very Good, Jeeves") and "The Purity of the Turf" (from "The Inimitable Jeeves"). Bertie's Uncle George wishes to marry a young waitress. Aunt Agatha is dismayed and, through Bertie, offers the girl ₤100 to break off the engagement; instead, however, Bertie meets Maud Wilberforce,