Very good Mr. Gordon, you just became relevant in the 21st century. Cato’s Letters (written by Gordon along with John Trenchard) represent some of the most influential 18th century political theory. Murray Rothbard mentions Gordon and Trenchard along with Algernon Sidney and John Locke as the most influential libertarian leaning philosophers during colonial times. But in Cato’s Letter Number 4, we see more than the ideological origins of our founding fathers. We see a true understanding of macroeconomic policy that made people like Ludwig von Mises and Henry Hazlitt shake their heads at the missed historical lesson in the macroeconomic policies of the early 20th century.

Again, to Gordon, “If our money be gone, thank God, our eyes are left: Sharpened by experience and adversities we can see through disguises, and will be no more amused with moon-shine.”

Or so we hope…