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US Supreme Court allows 40 states to issue their own gold and silver-backed currencies, endorsing dual banking systems.
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Posted on 06/10/2024 3:58:00 PM PDT by davikkm

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To: Lazamataz
Lady Liberty was often not wearing street clothes. :)
41 posted on 06/10/2024 4:47:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: davikkm

The writer doesn’t seem to know anything about banking law or regulation.

The case deals with interest on escrow accounts and whether state or federal law would apply.

The Supreme Court did not answer that question, it just remanded the case to the Court of Appeals with instructions on the standards that it should have used.

As far as state charter vs. federal charter There are actually 3, not 2, regulatory schemes (or there were last time I was involved in this area - National banks, State member banks, and State non-member banks. State banks are also going to have a secondary federal regulator.

Then, of course, there are state and federal credit unions, which have different sets of regulators.

Federal Savings Banks used to have a different federal regulator, but now are, like national banks, under the OCC. State Savings Banks are, of course, primarily regulated by the state, but are also subject to secondary federal regulation.


42 posted on 06/10/2024 4:48:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Lazamataz

The coin valued at 130k will be called the stormie.


43 posted on 06/10/2024 4:48:10 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Lazamataz
Well, my set view of cryptocurrencies is that they are for illicit purposes--laundering money, drugs, terrorism, avoiding taxes, etc.

As a practical matter, if a state issues currency, does a local business have to accept? And nationally? Can you imagine a cash register having to keep multiple sets of currency in the till?

Who gets rich out of this? Money exchangers?

What probem does this solve? Ron Paul and others have long offered complaints about the Fed, why not fix that instead?

44 posted on 06/10/2024 4:49:45 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

> In the 1800s following gold strikes, California issued gold coin. <

I found that interesting. So I just did a quick search. From what I can tell, those gold coins were issued in California, but not by California.

Evidently, private companies were issuing coins with stated values. Like a $5 coin if they contained $5 worth of gold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_gold_coinage


45 posted on 06/10/2024 4:51:24 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Angelino97

“California’s state government would love to print its own currency”

It has to be backed by gold or silver, presumably real gold and silver in storage somewhere.


46 posted on 06/10/2024 4:52:50 PM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

They didn’t. This article is pure bunk using the first page of a SCOTUS decision on whether federally chartered banks have to pay interest on mortgage escrow accounts as required by New York law but not federal law to make claims that are totally specious.

I would never use this website again as a source of information about SCOTUS decisions. They are completely dishonest gaslighters.


47 posted on 06/10/2024 4:53:18 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Reno89519

It is not wise to “..believe in American, right or wrong,..” any more.
in fact as corrupt as our government is now, it’s foolish

-fJRoberts-


48 posted on 06/10/2024 4:57:06 PM PDT by A strike (no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Billthedrill

49 posted on 06/10/2024 4:57:32 PM PDT by nevadapatriot
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To: Qwapisking
more appropriately...why WOULDN’T they want to do that?

They'd have to buy gold and or silver. Store it. Print money. Set up a conversion rate. Set up offices to exchange gold/silver for the state currency. Set up a separate tax collection database, to collect taxes in US dollars and their own currency.

Probably a bunch of other things as well.

What did they gain with all that extra effort and expense?

50 posted on 06/10/2024 5:01:03 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Leaning Right

Louisiana, Utah, and Texas have passed legislation recognizing gold and silver as legal tender, a move that allows citizens to make transactions using precious metals in place of cash.

Joining seven other states that have either passed or introduced legislation in favor of the metals, Louisiana, Utah, and Texas are now taking further steps toward establishing regulatory depositories to hold gold and silver.

https://www.mintstategold.com/investor-education/cat/news/post/states-where-gold-and-silver-have-become-legal-tender/

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51 posted on 06/10/2024 5:01:18 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Reno89519

“ Balkanizing the country with state-issued currency is unAmerican and undermines the US.”

___________________

Printing fiat currency undermined the U.S.


52 posted on 06/10/2024 5:01:40 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Justa
There’s no way the Fed Res Banks want to get stuck with their 40T debt.

Why would the Federal Reserve Banks get stuck with the debt of the US Treasury? What would it look like if they were?

53 posted on 06/10/2024 5:03:10 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: davikkm

State gold-backed currency already exists. I’ve seen some at my LCS.


54 posted on 06/10/2024 5:07:02 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: davikkm

Preparing for QFS.


55 posted on 06/10/2024 5:07:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

“Why would they want to do that?”

It’s the first, of many steps, needed for a state to detach from the Leftists embedded in DC. With this, both credit and debit cards could be issued.

But MANY MORE steps needed!


56 posted on 06/10/2024 5:15:41 PM PDT by BobL
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To: davikkm

Gold-silver backed has absolute value though, not fiat currency?


57 posted on 06/10/2024 5:17:46 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: davikkm

I don’t think that’s what it means.

YES you have dual banking of CHARTERING, but in 1864 Congress passed the National Bank and Currency Act affixing an immediate 10% tax on all non-National Bank notes. Yes, you can print them, but they will be worth 10% less the minute they come off the press-—regardless if they are backed by gold. Hence, within a few years all private bank note issue disappeared. Moreover, although recognizing a “dual BANKING system,” there is no mechanism to affix “legal tender” status to any non-National Bank Note. (BTW, after the Federal Reserve was created, National Bank Notes were withdrawn from circulation and replaced entirely with Federal Reserve Notes, and have since become more or less collectors’ items.)


58 posted on 06/10/2024 5:17:55 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." Jimi Hendrix)
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To: Billthedrill
A five-dollar gold piece at today’s rate would be 1/465 of an ounce. I’m trying to visualize what that might look like...

That’s what silver coins are for.
59 posted on 06/10/2024 5:18:36 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Chode

Last I saw US silver coins were worth 20 times their value in greenbacks. A ten dollar roll of silver quarters selling for $200.


60 posted on 06/10/2024 5:18:50 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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