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Tweet takedown of the day: Krugman and the gold standard

Michael Allan McCrae | August 27, 2012 | 4:29 am Precious Metals Gold 

Paul Krugman leaned into the gold standard calling it a ". . .very bad, no good, truly awful idea" after word came that the Republicans may add it to their party's platform. Krugman argues that the gold standard in the past never brought...

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