by Mark Thornton
Mises.org
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Minor Issues podcast. I’m Mark Thornton at the Mises Institute.
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This week’s episode explains how Warren Buffett, Dave Ramsey, and John Maynard Keynes are wrong about gold.
John Maynard Keynes, the Godfather of Keynesian economics, famously called gold the “barbarous relic,” a term he used to denigrate the gold standard and to disparage the use of gold as money.