[JoeFromSidney]

William Jennings Bryan was a pathetic panderer - some call it populism. But he was an obvious commie chastising gold simply because his state has silver to sell.

Remember, that was before the Federal Reserve. The only way to inflate the currency then (other than by cutting the gold or silver content of coins) was to coin plentiful silver at an unrealistic ratio to gold. Bryan was an inflationist, just like "Helicopter Bernanke." He just wanted to do it in a different way.

[Sam Gamgee]

Thanks for that insight. I never knew that. Being a “honest money” person, I have a certain infinity to a gold standard or at least non inflationary monetary expansion. I had thought the battle was simply a battle between a gold standard and a bimetallic standard - I had no idea that we had inflationists backs then looking to silver to help them do it.

Helicopter Ben - glad someone else is aware of what a monkey Ben Bernake is. Everyone is talking about higher commodity prices but are missing what the real culprit is - monetary expansionism.

Now was Alexander Hamilton also an inflationist - it was he that supported the idea of a central bank?