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To: grumpygresh

Want to end booms and busts?

Go on a gold standard
Force government to live within the means (taxes) they take in (no debt)
Jail CEOs and bankers for fraud and not following GAAP

Getting rid of cash with touching the insanity of government debt and bankers having no fear of jail will solve NOTHING


6 posted on 05/13/2015 10:53:02 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: 2banana

You are correct. But you haven’t gone quite far enough.

The only way to monetize a paper currency system dependent on the issuance of credit is to have a stable source of value behind it.

That is why the Federal Income Tax was created. It monetizes the debt, and allows for the issuance of credit which creates new money. Translation: they mortgaged your life so they could write more loans.

Repeal the 16th Amendment, close the Reserve Bank and as you said, go back to a standard...Gold is one option.


10 posted on 05/13/2015 10:58:19 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: 2banana
Go on a gold standard Force government to live within the means (taxes) they take in (no debt)

Cycles and Panics can still happen even in that scenario.

There is no utopia.

Save your money (gold) during the booms, use if necessary during the busts, whcih sets up the next boom.
29 posted on 05/13/2015 11:28:33 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: 2banana
Go on a gold standard. Force government to live within the means (taxes) they take in (no debt)

Back when paper money was just a warehouse receipt. As the bottom line says "$20 in gold coin payable to the bearer on demand". Fatal words to a spendthrift government.


38 posted on 05/13/2015 1:00:22 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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