Chapter 47. The Standard of Deferred Payments
1. If every piece of money should miraculously be doubled in a night, whose interests would be affected?
2. Is the fact of one man's gain and another man's loss by chance of any economic or political importance?
3. What gives rise to the belief sometimes held that money is an invariable standard of value?
4. Is there anything in the nature of mining that keeps the ratio of the supply of gold and silver nearly uniform?
5. Is the value of gold and silver due to the action of government?
6. Does the principle of the substitution of goods have any bearing on the value of metals under bimetallism?
7. Note carefully, and indicate the different meanings of bimetallism; of demonetization.
8. What is the extent of the influence one nation can have on the ratio of the two precious metals?
9. If money wages are higher and general prices are lower, how is the laborer affected? Is this due to the appreciation of money?
10. Can you get a kind of money that will make the things that are sold, dearer, and the things that are bought, cheaper?
11. What are the main reasons given for the ratio of 16 to 1?