Even beggars turned up their noses to the German mark in the 1920s. It’s true. While wheel barrows full of marks continue to animate simplistic economic history, the reality is that the marks in the barrows were trash, and treated as such by merchants and – yes – bums…
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John Tamny is Founder and President of the Parkview Institute, editor of RealClearMarkets, senior fellow at the Market Institute, and Senior Economic Adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group. Tamny is the author of eight books. His latest is The Deficit Delusion: Why Everything Left, Right and Supply-Side Tell You About the National Debt Is Wrong. His others are Bringing Adam Smith Into the American Home: A Case Against Home Ownership, The Money Confusion, When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason, Popular Economics, Who Needs the Fed?, The End of Work, and They're Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers.
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