An endorsement from Switzerland in support of Ron Paul’s Free Competition in Currency Act
Please review and link to:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/holland10.1.html

“Before the US House of Representatives, December 9, 2009

Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009. Currency, or money, is what allows civilization to flourish. In the absence of money, barter is the name of the game; if the farmer needs shoes, he must trade his eggs and milk to the cobbler and hope that the cobbler needs eggs and milk. Money makes the transaction process far easier. Rather than having to search for someone with reciprocal wants, the farmer can exchange his milk and eggs for an agreed-upon medium of exchange with which he can then purchase shoes….With a sound currency, everyone is better off, not just those who control the monetary system. I urge my colleagues to consider the redevelopment of a system of competing currencies and cosponsor the Free Competition in Currency Act.”

Actually, it sounds more like the “free silver” guys’ main opponents, the gold standard folks.

The free silver people didn’t want money “deregulated,” they wanted it regulated in their favor (requiring the government to buy silver and coin it in unlimited amounts and fixing the price at, if I recall correctly, 16 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of gold instead of letting the market price it).

I’d say that the BTP’s money position is economically populist. The idea is to immunize money from value manipulations by the power elite, thus protecting the wealth of the masses from inflation, etc.