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To: GodGunsGuts
If you want to refute something that was intended to be a serious work, then you should seriously refute it.

He said FR notes are backed by bonds, they aren't. That's an enormous error. He doesn't understand how you can have more derivatives than there are bonds. It's easy. I can explain it to you. If you understood derivatives, you could explain it to me. So why don't you? To show you are credible.

231 posted on 12/18/2006 9:08:33 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (If you agree with EPI, you're not a conservative!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

He said that FR notes are backed by *assets,* such as government bonds. I see nothing wrong with this statement:

"Government bonds today are not a legitimate instrument of saving as gold bonds of yesteryear were. They are supposed to have value because they are payable in FR notes at maturity. But what gives value to the FR notes? Why, it is the fact that they are liabilities of the issuing FR bank, backed by assets such as government bonds."


233 posted on 12/18/2006 9:24:19 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
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