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2011 – The year when money starts to die
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| Alasdair Macleod
Posted on 01/05/2011 9:54:25 PM PST by dollarbull
Between 1716 and 1720, John Law tried to rescue the French government from bankruptcy with a scheme that came to be called The Mississippi Bubble. His strategy was to set up two entities: a bank whose purpose was to issue paper money, and a company whose primary but undeclared function was to refinance government debt. Law realised that he had to confiscate all gold and silver other than smaller quantities, and force French citizens to pay their taxes and buy shares in the Mississippi Company, only with the banks newly issued notes. These were the three essential elements of his scheme.[i]
This is precisely what central banks in the US, Europe, Japan and the UK are doing today. They are rigging the markets by buying government debt at artificially high prices with freshly created paper money, having previously excluded gold and silver from any role as legal tender. The following quote from John Law, could equally be attributed to a central banker of today: An abundance of money which would lower the interest rate to two per cent would, in reducing the financing costs of the debts and public offices etc. relieve the King. This is quantitative easing, pure and simple, and John Law had fully anticipated modern central banking. Laws scheme ended in disaster and as a precedent for todays central banking this should worry us greatly.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: gold; goldbugs; hardmoneydelusions; hyperinflation; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Beelzebubba
The first person to put on gold jewelry did not think “if I wear this, people will think I’m rich”.
For many years, gold has tied in with wealth, but not long long ago.
You do realize I’m pro Gold?
To: truthfreedom
The first person to put on gold jewelry did not think if I wear this, people will think Im rich.
Why do you say that? Ever heard of monarchs? (The only ones who used to be able to have gold until people took charge).
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posted on
01/06/2011 7:54:18 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
To: Antonello
You bring a third person into the mix
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posted on
01/06/2011 8:04:12 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Protecting US interests ONLY if US interests move back into the States and give US citizens jobs.)
To: Beelzebubba
My only question is that of what personal experience or status of yours makes you so hostile to those who propose or defend the prudent use of precious metals for certain limited purposes?
You see, this is why I can't take you seriously. I defy you to go through this thread and find where I showed any hostility toward people who buy gold. You are overreacting to the extreme. I made a simple point about food being more valuable than gold and you act like I just called your mother a whore or something. It's ridiculous.
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posted on
01/06/2011 8:39:35 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: Beelzebubba
5000 years ago. the first people to do it.
Before there were monarchs.
To: April Lexington
Keep in mind that the United States and Europe (the two sectors in deep doo doo over socialist policies) are only 1/3 of the world. China and India are not facing the same problems. So... there will be gold and bread available... There is no deserted island...
Maybe, maybe not. I'm not an expert on the subject, but I strongly suspect that if China could have let us go down in flames without destroying themselves, they would have done so by now, because, as owners of our debt, they certainly have the power. That they haven't suggests that if we go down, they go down. Be that as it may, gold is like any other currency - it only has value as long as people have faith that it has value. As soon as people decide that resources they have are more valuable than gold, then gold becomes just a hunk of metal. I think where the disconnect is here is some people are viewing the upcoming pain as merely a depression, where others view it as a potential end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, Mad Max-type apocalypse. I suppose one's view on the ultimate value of gold stems mostly from that viewpoint.
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01/06/2011 8:46:53 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: fr_freak
I defy you to go through this thread and find where I showed any hostility toward people who buy gold.
I think your defensiveness to against those who pointed out the absurdity of your “Gilligan” scenario as your only evidence to support the dubious notion that gold has not been valuable at some particular time in history is a start.
Your citing of the Gilligan lyrics in your defense was laughable.
When you doth protest too much against reasonable, plausible, and correct statements, trying to nit-pick an irrelevant disagreement, you are “hostile.”
WHY?
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posted on
01/06/2011 9:22:48 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
To: Beelzebubba
Your citing of the Gilligan lyrics in your defense was laughable.
You have GOT to be kidding me. Seriously, you're just pulling my leg, right? You honestly can't recognize a joke when you see one? You genuinely thought I was "citing lyrics" in my defense? You're hopeless.
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01/06/2011 10:56:50 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: truthfreedom
That IF ain’t gonna happen.
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posted on
01/07/2011 5:09:11 AM PST
by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
To: fr_freak
You ONLY defense was the joke.
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01/07/2011 6:20:36 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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