The presidential election of 1896 was among the most hard-fought and complex in U.S. history, and Butte had a vested interest in it.

Just as the laser-eyed crypto lobby and its grassroots fans seeded Trump’s pro-Bitcoin turn on the campaign trail, bimetallism became a populist cause celebre during McKinley’s election campaign.

There are broader implications, though, stretching back to the politicisation of popular monetary crazes in the 1890s. Back then, “Silverites” — agricultural debtors struggling with falling prices — ...

Using the heavily marketed movie “Wicked” as his news hook, Bob explains that the beloved Wizard of Oz movie involved an allegory of the bimetallism debates of the late 1800s, including William ...

Trump’s re-election reveals us to be a people who, for all our star-spangled self-regard, share the world’s damnable wish for kings and strongmen.

Hundreds of great nations, thousands of nation-states – we tend to have one currency per geographic economic state. We tend even not to have bimetallism." STORY CONTINUES BELOW ...

NEW YORK — U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler said he thinks it's unlikely that bitcoin BTC $96,388.29 or other cryptocurrencies will ever be widely used as a ...

If they say bimetallism is good, but that we cannot have it until other nations help us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, we will restore bimetallism, and then ...

Real BimetallismThe latest of the admirable series of publications issued by Messrs. G.P. Putnam's Sons, under the title of "Questions of the Day," is "Real Bimetallism," by Everett P. Wheeler ...

Britons deplored the comfort given to the heresy of bimetallism. Frenchmen applauded the President’s political savoir faire and shrugged their shoulders at the grotesque thought of bimetallism.

Bimetallism Debate in CommonsThe full reports of the debate in the House of Commons (March 17) on the question of bimetallism bring out more clearly than was at first to be seen the position of ...