Econ money and banking

Listen to the Planet Money podcasts: 

Episode 252: The Gold Standard

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/01/14/376967891/episode-252-the-gold-standard (Links to an external site.)

Episode 253: Gold Standard, R.I.P.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/01/16/376967946/episode-253-gold-standard-r-i-p (Links to an external site.)

After listening to the two podcasts and using information you find in the textbook and from lecture, write a thought paper on the gold standard. Your paper should take the form of a diatribe, where you argue in favor of one side, then the other side and finally you present your own conclusion. As this is a thought paper, you do not have to include a bibliography. 

Minimum Word Count: 500