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
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Industry Association in 2004, Sharon Brown-Hruska, acting director of the CFTC, said that 65 of the top 100 hedge funds in 2003 were commodity pools, and 50 out of the 100 largest hedge funds were CTAs in addition to being commodity pools. In 2012, Christopher Ehrman, a SEC veteran was selected to run the new Office of the Whistleblower for the CFTC. In an interview published in "The Wall Street Journal", Mr. Ehrman is quoted: "One is just understanding enforcement. I'm an enforcement guy and I did investigations and brought cases for a number of years. I understand what folks