host: david is on the line for ralph benko.aller: i beg to the gentleman the would-i beg to differ with the gentleman that we conducted our affairs so well. there were crashes so often. this country got started on publicly managed paper money. during the revolutionary war, what that gentleman forgets to mention is that the briton -- the british were i tacking us with a massive counterfeiting operation. he forgets them mention the greenback which carried the union through the civil war. this father -- this country has never had a true publicly managed money system. guest: on the history of the experience of the revolutionary war, i read their own language. they were traumatized by. they detested paper money. in everything i have read, it is said by the founders, none of them said, it would've worked great except the british had been counterfeiting so heavily. there was a wonderful article in 1863 in the civil war, and i forgot to mention -- i did mention that america win off the gold standard during the civil war. and i always s

host: david is on the line for ralph benko. caller: i beg to the gentleman the would-i beg to differ with the gentleman that we conducted our affairs so well. there were crashes so often. this country got started on publicly managed paper money. during the revolutionary war, what that gentleman forgets to mention is that the briton -- the british were i tacking us with a massive counterfeiting operation. he forgets them mention the greenback which carried the union through the civil war. this father -- this country has never had a true publicly managed money system. guest: on the history of the experience of the revolutionary war, i read their own language. they were traumatized by. they detested paper money. in everything i have read, it is said by the founders, none of them said, it would've worked great except the british had been counterfeiting so heavily. there was a wonderful article in 1863 in the civil war, and i forgot to mention -- i did mention that america win off the gold standard during the civil war. and i always

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