His latest piece is most interesting.
In 1970 the writer was a student at university studying for a Masters Degree, and his professor of International Finance gave him a 'courtesy' pass mark in the subject because the writer insisted on arguing that the gold price would rise - when eminent men such as Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson (Nobel Prize winners, both of them) argued that it would not.
Well, Milton Friedman was never wrong, merely mistaken.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_05 ... 20207.html
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Brian Bloom is one those who encompass the deeper catergories, which bypass the American.