Writes Andy Sirkis:

“I just wanted to pass along a quick story that shows, in some way, that what you and the Mises Institute are doing is working.
At a locally owned ice cream parlor I noted to my 6 year old that a single scoop used to cost 18 cents when I was a boy and now its $2.50. It will probably cost her $30 to buy her child a scoop. The owner’s 20 year old son overheard this and said that “I was dating myself”. I mentioned to him that the 18 cents was stable for many years until about the mid 1970’s and prices have been up up up since then. He replied, “Yes, of course that’s when we went off the gold standard.” “Funny how prices have gone up since then,” he laughed.
If 20 year old ice cream scoopers associate ever higher prices with going off the gold standard (even if it wasn’t exactly a true gold standard) you have to believe that the Mises hard money message is starting to enter popular culture.