Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/23/2009 11:55:06 PM PST by FromLori
The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo may be the button that launches metal prices into orbit.
In its wide-ranging report this fall, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stated that the system of currencies and international banking practices within today’s economies were inadequate, and responsible for the present economic crisis. The report advocates that the present monetary system, wherein the dollar acts as the global reserve currency be re-examined “with urgency”.
The UNCTAD Report was the first time a major multinational institution had forwarded such a suggestion or measure, although a number of countries, including Russia and Brazil have supported replacing the dollar as the world's reserve currency. China's central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan has mentioned that the dollar could become a basket of currencies instead.
The UN commission dismissed such a widening, saying a multiple-country system "may be equally unstable, and not transparent."
The panel is seeking more monetary balance for developing countries, and a means for them to retain their reserves and domestic savings independent of foreign agencies and arrangements.
Panel Chair US economist Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel economics laureate, has made plain that there was "a growing consensus that there are problems with the dollar reserve system. Developing countries are lending the United States trillions dollars at almost zero interest rates when they have huge needs themselves," Stiglitz stated.
"It's indicative of the nature of the problem. It's a net transfer, in a sense, to the United States, a form of foreign aid."
A report contributor, Detlef Koffe, concluded that "Replacing the dollar with a bullion currency would solve some of the problems related to the potential of countries running large deficits and would help stability,"
US Fed spokesperson Patrick Paulsen acknowledged that there could be some strong reaction in the US to the global currency, and that it would “…be viewed as a step toward a New World Order. But those same people have probably lost patience with the money-changers as well.”
He clarified that he would “…nonetheless anticipate that the western currencies will continue to depreciate, given Asia’s ascendancy in trade and manufacturing, to find their own value and enable their economies to compete. This is a UN perogrative we cannot and should not control, it’s returning to what we had with Bretton-Woods.”
The UN decided to provide a “public option” savings currency, whereby currency mints will be licensed to mint two kinds of bullion coins the size of the 1€ coin - the Uno (silver ~$5) and the Oro (gold, ~$500). The names were adopted from the book “The Humanist”, which foresees the UN being better funded by 2015 via its licensing fees, expected to be 10-15%.
The coins have a marker chemical in them that enables their authentication and processing by modified retail ATM and exchange machines in Europe, which will be distributed globally. Any licensee, public or private, can produce such bullion coinage under contract. The United Nations is doing no more than what most countries do already, except that the value of its coins will reflect their bullion weight.
Armand Dufour of the European Bank welcomes their introduction. “People have enough Fiat currency options, government and banks cannot intrude on bullion coins – they will have their own inviolable value.”
He does have one concern, however. “If we see a dismounting from the US dollar, as is inevitable in the main view, there will be a strong move to the Oro, which may drive its price up to the point where governments will not allow its circulation; they will try to isolate it.”
“That’s when the fun begins.” he said.
You can’t EAT metal. By the time this is over, all the gold in the world won’t be worth a tinker’s damn.
I’m thinking Montel Williams as their “spokesperson”.
By the time this is over, all the gold in the world will belong to the UN.
Oh, so now the UN wants to be the WORLD’S BANKER.
They make good bullets.
Time to give the UN their vacate notice.
If the U.N. were ever to issue any kind of currency, it would be fiat currency, and I'm sure their coins would be made of low-grade plastic, fly-weight aluminum, or perhaps recycled cardboard.
The idea that they would be in favor of empowering the masses by allowing them to own/hoard precious metals is absurd.
The part about the embedded RFID chip does sound plausible, however.
Regards,
> By the time this is over, all the gold in the world will belong to the UN.
The United Nations will need to buy the bullion from somewhere. Problem is, they have no money. All of this is a crazy-@ssed pipe-dream.
Dear leader will give all the US tax dollars the UN needs.
At today’s rates, there is nowhere near enough silver and gold on to replace the number of dollars and euros representing today’s world trade.
The fact is that the dollar will, in the years ahead, continue to drop in value, taking with it the value of dollar denominated assets except for certain hard assets such as precious metals. A one ounce "UN" gold coin would be worth exactly the same as a one ounce gold coin minted by any other country as long as the purity levels were identical.
Producing nations like China would be very angered by a one-to-one currency exchange with us. Such a global currency would go over about as well with such countries as the Copenhagen mess did.
You are correct.
The beauty part of ANY genuine gold or silver coin is that it doesn’t matter WHO issued it. If it’s real, it’s money.
They will probably adulturate the gold with lead like the Germans did with their gold in WW-2
“Layered in 24kt gold!” (As seen on TV)
MORONS! Gold is gold. UN thinks that their logo is the important part.
> Dear leader will give all the US tax dollars the UN needs.
(Grin!) The ChiComs will freak out!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.