Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it’s been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.” ~ Lew Rockwell [Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.] (1944- ) Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises InstituteSource: Banks On The Dole, The Free Market, November 1995.