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To: econjack
'Not true. There is plenty of private capital with individuals having say over who owns it and how it is used. Even my paltry savings account is private capital. '

Not true at all. Your savings account is backstopped and protected by

Government via the FDIC

. In the past, a private bank would guarantee investments and interest rates. Hello 'It's a Wonderful Life', government now controls all aspects of our current system, and you just celebrated another of a form of picking a industry to be protected by government. Capitalism has always involved risk, government has removed vast amounts of that risk to cater to certain interest groups. Banking is part of that protected class.
45 posted on 09/08/2024 5:32:11 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Theoria

I still disagree. There are plenty of stores of capital that have nothing to do with the FDIC. If you choose to do so, you could store your capital in Switzerland in the form of gold bars.


46 posted on 09/08/2024 6:55:51 PM PDT by econjack
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