Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beetle of a golden color.
- noun An advocate of the single gold standard in finance; a ‘gold man.’
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Examples
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Salinger obviously was a recluse, but I dunno, was he, say, a gold-bug, or against fluoridation of water? wiley says:
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The ensuing chaos would do a lot to discredit the brand of gold-bug/Fed-phobic lunacy he represents.
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Thus, Barr, the mainstream libertarian and professional conservative politician, failed even more miserably than a gold-bug politician who ran on abolishing the Federal Reserve and unilaterally withdrawing the U.S. from the Cold War, and who took time out of his campaign to give long interviews about the Trilateral Commission and the secret manipulations of the international bankers.
Contrarium sequitur 2008
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Thus, Barr, the mainstream libertarian and professional conservative politician, failed even more miserably than a gold-bug politician who ran on abolishing the Federal Reserve and unilaterally withdrawing the U.S. from the Cold War, and who took time out of his campaign to give long interviews about the Trilateral Commission and the secret manipulations of the international bankers.
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Let me make a confession, I am not a gold-bug, but my original introduction to economics was by someone who stressed the virtues of 'honest money' and I wrote an op-ed as a youngster advocating a return to a true gold-standard.
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Let me make a confession, I am not a gold-bug, but my original introduction to economics was by someone who stressed the virtues of 'honest money' and I wrote an op-ed as a youngster advocating a return to a true gold-standard.
Did the Gold Standard Cause the Great Depression? - The Austrian Economists 2007
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The book starts with the ancient world and ends with nineteenth-century Britain; its subject is “the origin, rise and despotism of the gold-bug”; the United States is barely mentioned.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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The book starts with the ancient world and ends with nineteenth-century Britain; its subject is “the origin, rise and despotism of the gold-bug”; the United States is barely mentioned.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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The story of the gold-bug is that of a man who finds a piece of parchment on which is a secret writing telling where Captain Kidd hid his treasure off the coast of South Carolina.
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Lieutenant G---- affects the course of events, the incident of the dog rushing in, the effect of introducing the gold-bug and making it the title of the story.
Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill
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