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Re: [Pen-l] Many happy (Austrian) returns



On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:20 AM,  <dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is also a substantial subculture in favour of "free banking" - ie, using the obligations of privately owned banks as the currency, as was done in Scotland in the 18th century*.  This has some elements of fiat and some of gold, in that the currency has to be ultimately convertible into gold, but there is some scope for bankers to expand their issue.
>

Didn't the US have something like this before the Civil War?
-raghu.

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