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To: djsherin
disastrous Greenspan legacy.

whatever. and a fiat switch to a gold standard will make everything OK, right?

2 posted on 08/08/2008 8:09:42 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: the invisib1e hand

lol!

don’t get any on you.


3 posted on 08/08/2008 8:12:31 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

“and a fiat switch to a gold standard will make everything OK, right? “

It handcuffs deficit spending as Kennedy and LBJ learned when they were confronted with Triffin’s dilemma. Nixon chose to deal with it by breaking the last link to the Bretton Woods system which led to the erosion of the dollar.


7 posted on 08/08/2008 8:28:13 PM PDT by Pelham (Press 1 for English)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Gold is fiat?
A gold standard prevents government from printing out vast sums of money thus devaluing the dollar.


11 posted on 08/08/2008 8:58:27 PM PDT by djsherin
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