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The US Dollar vs. The Gold Standard


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I'm holding my own nation's government to standards that the market imposes on me because I'm not too big to fail. You're once again disingenuously putting words in my mouth to distort what I'm saying.

You don't allow the best solution when government forces its own solutions upon everyone. To even believe what you're saying you have to assume that government always has the best solution to all of our problems. That "herd mentality" that you assign to free people making purchasing decisions for themselves. I'd love to see you pat your wife or your girlfriend on the head and tell them that actually they're just following a herd and aren't as capable of making smart purchasing decisions for themselves and should let the government take care of them.

Have I advocated the current mode of Government as a solution ? No

Do I think there are serious issues with the way the American and UK and Irish Governments currently operate ? Yes

Do I think that a Free Market and Gold standard are the solutions to the above problems ? No

You see its simple when you try. Easy catchy solutions are not going to get us out of the mess we are in. It was the market running without adequate regulation which got us where we are today - so I hardly think that leaving it to the markets is going to get us to where we need to be in the future. You may find horrendous market swings (which are implicit in lightly regulated markets and which a cursory review of history will show) and the consequent social misery, to be acceptable an acceptable price to pay for your dream - but I don't.

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so I hardly think that leaving it to the markets is going to get us to where we need to be in the future.

In fact, it is not even going to get us where the markets need to be in the future.

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Have I advocated the current mode of Government as a solution ? No

Do I think there are serious issues with the way the American and UK and Irish Governments currently operate ? Yes

Do I think that a Free Market and Gold standard are the solutions to the above problems ? No

You see its simple when you try. Easy catchy solutions are not going to get us out of the mess we are in. It was the market running without adequate regulation which got us where we are today - so I hardly think that leaving it to the markets is going to get us to where we need to be in the future. You may find horrendous market swings (which are implicit in lightly regulated markets and which a cursory review of history will show) and the consequent social misery, to be acceptable an acceptable price to pay for your dream - but I don't.

Br Cornelius

Have I advocated the current mode of Government as a solution ?

Yes of course you do, repeatedly. The current monetary policy is to appoint powerful people who control our money supply and you've advocated for fiat again and again and again. Let the market (the behavior of you and I) decide our interest rates. Stop blindly trusting in the opinion of government to determine what our money supply should be.

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Have I advocated the current mode of Government as a solution ?

Yes of course you do, repeatedly. The current monetary policy is to appoint powerful people who control our money supply and you've advocated for fiat again and again and again. Let the market (the behavior of you and I) decide our interest rates. Stop blindly trusting in the opinion of government to determine what our money supply should be.

As you keep saying to me - don't presume to say that you understand my opinions on Government.

I have advocated a highly modified interest free currency based on a tie to a basket of real world commodities. That is in no way similar to what we have at the moment so to state that I advocate the Status Quo is entirely false and shows that you do not understand anything but your own opinions.

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As you keep saying to me - don't presume to say that you understand my opinions on Government.

I have advocated a highly modified interest free currency based on a tie to a basket of real world commodities. That is in no way similar to what we have at the moment so to state that I advocate the Status Quo is entirely false and shows that you do not understand anything but your own opinions.

Br Cornelius

If you're not for the status quo as you have also repeatedly claimed then explain to me what's wrong with the Federal Reserve system?

What I just said has nothing to do with whether or not we have a highly modified interest free currency based on a tie to a basket of real world commodities. It has to do with free market principles which you have repeatedly scorned on this thread. And like a typical Keynesian you can't take responsibility for your own words like you can't allow others to take responsibility for their own actions.

I believe in competition among banks for soundness and reputation just like I believe in competition among corporations, among currencies, among governments and among individuals. Not rewarding gigantic banks with Ben Bernanke Bucks for their greed or stupidity to forsake the small solvent bank who wanted to make the loan. Don't cite Krugman here, cheerlead fiat here, poopoo the free market here and then tell me you support something else other than Keynesianism. How you'd tweak the Keynesian code differently than person X doesn't free you from what you've said on this thread from the beginning. People who have money to invest shouldn't be betting on the big dumb bank because the government says it's okay.

If you want to pretend that you have the best solutions for everything, you should cite the evidence for it. And when I asked you for a source and left this thread alone over the weekend, I returned to see a den full of Keynesian werewolves having a fiat party when the market guy took a hiatus. It's obvious what you support already, you just need a clearer mirror.

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Not having a set of simple answers to solve all the issues we face is the very essence of why I cannot just produce "Gold Standard" "Free Market Fundamentalism" to every issue. If you think that's a problem, then I am just glad that what you say will only represent a loud voice and not any actual policy.

You may not realize it but your mentality got us in this mess in the first place.

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Not having a set of simple answers to solve all the issues we face is the very essence of why I cannot just produce "Gold Standard" "Free Market Fundamentalism" to every issue. If you think that's a problem, then I am just glad that what you say will only represent a loud voice and not any actual policy.

You may not realize it but your mentality got us in this mess in the first place.

Br Cornelius

Advocating for a gold standard results from understanding that our best results come from free individuals and groups of individuals, not the government nor the elite class of the powerful few who want nothing more than to have power over us if we let them. I can only imagine how hard you'd get slapped for telling your girlfriend she's not smart enough to make intelligent decisions for herself.

My "mentality" prevents us getting into this mess in the first place because it represents real change from what we've been doing that got us there. Everything from the economy to a principle to a standard to money is a vacuous innocuous " mental idea" to you because you fight against freedom instead of embracing it. It's frankly disgusting to see you do it. This Keynesian candy land of government, gigantic secretive banks and statist gurus pulling the switches for us better than we can ourselves is the heart of the problem we have in this society; we're complicit and ignorant and let ourselves be misled. Most people understand this when you talk to them; you are not one of those people.

We've had enough Krugman Keynesianism and Wall Street bailouts. It's time to put the hammer down on these clowns and the gold standard is just one way to achieve that.

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Whether the US dollar survives for another hundred years is not of interest to me. What I'm interested in trying to fix is the horrible effects that massive government intervention into the markets will cause. A hundred more years of suffering the consequences of a failed policy is nothing I find morally acceptable or politically tenable.

You're basically agruing the "What if" armageden idea. That horrible horrendous things could... could happen to the US dollar. But that is like my arguing that we should eliminate local school busing, because one drives by my house several times every day and eventually it could crash into my house and kill me and all those kids on the bus. You're arguing for a future that just does not look like it will ever appear. Much like the FEMA conspiricists who say that all the US poor and any radicals are going to go into FEMA camps. That is just not going to happen.

Thanks for that trip into conspiracy theory. Always a trusty detour in a debate over policy.

It is YOUR theory...

The gold standard is easily administered. Undoing Nixon Shock would be a first official step. The idea being to get the dollar back on the map while it's still got the credibility left that it does. Market sentiment is everything and ultimately the market will win this argument too. The market always wins in the end and it always will. If mankind blows himself back to the stone-age, the market will still reign supreme, and more so than ever. Stop fighting it. Stop tearing the bed like little piggies and then squealing because it got ripped, Keynesians. That's not asking for much.

I still don't understand where all this extra gold the FedGov is going to need will be coming from. Is gold ownership going to be illegal under a Gold Standard? Is the FedGov going to seize private gold? Won't collecting enough gold to cover Trillions of dollars of activity mean that automatically the Debt would leap up Trillions also?

How is having a stable economy going to reduce our national Debt? After all the Democrats (Handout Kings) and the Republicans (Warmongers) will still be working in DC, right? Seems like all that would be accomplished is to make those who own gold currently better off and make paying off our national debt impossible.

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You're basically agruing the "What if" armageden idea. That horrible horrendous things could... could happen to the US dollar. But that is like my arguing that we should eliminate local school busing, because one drives by my house several times every day and eventually it could crash into my house and kill me and all those kids on the bus. You're arguing for a future that just does not look like it will ever appear. Much like the FEMA conspiricists who say that all the US poor and any radicals are going to go into FEMA camps. That is just not going to happen.

It is YOUR theory...

I still don't understand where all this extra gold the FedGov is going to need will be coming from. Is gold ownership going to be illegal under a Gold Standard? Is the FedGov going to seize private gold? Won't collecting enough gold to cover Trillions of dollars of activity mean that automatically the Debt would leap up Trillions also?

How is having a stable economy going to reduce our national Debt? After all the Democrats (Handout Kings) and the Republicans (Warmongers) will still be working in DC, right? Seems like all that would be accomplished is to make those who own gold currently better off and make paying off our national debt impossible.

I never even thought of armageddon and I'm not arguing that at all. You don't understand what I'm saying if you read that into anything I typed. I see how bad things got already and I'm trying to reverse what should be crystal clear.

When you print endless crates of money and blow the money supply up, you can't create value out of thin air. Do you understand that? There is only real value in work, not in adding zeroes to a balance sheet. You are robbing the value that's already out there thanks to the hard work and savings of everyone else who did the right thing. This is robbery, and it's wrapped up in a gobmint wrapper so well, and there are so many voices in the system telling you it's alright, so much statist BS out there convincing you that you must be controlled like a financial slave class, that they get away with it.

What's going to happen in the future is the same thing that's happened for the past 100 years. Don't keep doing the same thing and actually expecting a different result. The numbers are in already. The perpetual and endless devaluation of the dollar is what this discussion is all about. Not conspiracies and changes of subject. I can't believe you can't see the inflation all around you on every major sector of the economy the government has its maws in. From the middle class to the elite. From the savers to the lenders. From capital to credit. From revenue to debt.

I didn't say anything about a stable economy, I said a stable currency. How that's going to help is to make things more affordable for people. We can trade more intelligently than massive labor and manufacturing outsourcing combined with deliberate dollar devaluation to try to help balance out our massive trade deficit.

I still don't understand where all this extra gold the FedGov is going to need will be coming from. Is gold ownership going to be illegal under a Gold Standard? Is the FedGov going to seize private gold? Won't collecting enough gold to cover Trillions of dollars of activity mean that automatically the Debt would leap up Trillions also?

We're going in circles here. From the global marketplace. It will need to be regulated like everything else. Asking good questions is prudent. Implying that it's impossible is ridiculous. It was possible in 1970 and it's possible now. Just because the central bank blew up the money supply doesn't mean that unpouring all that liquid which nobody questions the horrible side effects of doing when Ben Bernanke promises doing it over and over again, it's somehow only an issue when someone is advocating for a gold standard. Do the banks collect reserves they need to meet everyone's bank balance? Do you understand we live in a fractional reserve system? We will live in a fractional gold system as well. If people want to convert cash into gold, they'll have to bid on it in the marketplace. Hoarding gold will no longer make sense like it does today.

If you ignore history, and you ignore facts, and you ignore inflation, and you ignore the rich powerful men who control you through their opinions about what the value and supply of your money should be, then something (what?) I said might sound like a conspiracy to you. But the joke's on you obviously when you can't even acknowledge the problem we have with our monetary policy.

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I never even thought of armageddon and I'm not arguing that at all. You don't understand what I'm saying if you read that into anything I typed. I see how bad things got already and I'm trying to reverse what should be crystal clear.

The only reason I could agree with you is if it was an armagedden event. Otherwise you are suggesting using a sledge hammer to kill a fly.

The trouble it would take to implement your idea would be a lot worse in the short run (20 years?) then what we have now. Sure... hypothetically, several decades down the road, people would say, "Gee that WAS a good idea.", but really, if it is going to take that long, why not wait till AFTER we're out of a crappy Recovery and on level ground again?

When you print endless crates of money and blow the money supply up, you can't create value out of thin air. Do you understand that? There is only real value in work, not in adding zeroes to a balance sheet. You are robbing the value that's already out there thanks to the hard work and savings of everyone else who did the right thing.

I totally agree with that assessment, except... how much money was printed this year? What percentage of the total currency out there was that?

http://www.moneyfact...ionfigures.html

95% of the notes printed each year are used to replace notes already in, or taken out of circulation.

Denomination FY 2010

$1 ---------- 1,856,000,000

$2 ---------- N/A

$5 ---------- 352,000,000

$10 ---------- N/A

$20 ---------- 2,265,600,000

$50 ---------- N/A

$100 ---------- 1,907,200,000

Total (2010): 239.648 Billion

So 5% of that would be 12 Billion in new bills. I don't think that is going to sink a 10 Trillion dollar economy, or even really help, other then with News Spin, the Budget, FedGov Spending, the Deficit, or the National Debt.

Show me how 12 billion added to a trillion dollar economy ruins it?

What's going to happen in the future is the same thing that's happened for the past 100 years. Don't keep doing the same thing and actually expecting a different result.

I thought things were not "ruined" until th 1960s? Not it is 100 years?

The perpetual and endless devaluation of the dollar is what this discussion is all about. Not conspiracies and changes of subject.

So even when the US was on the Gold Standard, there was marked Devaluement?

Implying that it's impossible is ridiculous.

I did not say it was impossible. I simply asked where the gold and money was going to come from to Buy the gold. Saying it will come from the market is basically letting the market have control of the gold, isn't it?

We will live in a fractional gold system as well. If people want to convert cash into gold, they'll have to bid on it in the marketplace. Hoarding gold will no longer make sense like it does today.

I thought the whole point was that the gold would be actually in existance and able to be traded. If all it is going to be, is stuck into a hole in the ground and guarded by the Army, then we will quickly be in the same predicaments. The reason for the gold is to prevent people from changing the value of the dollar, right? But, if the gold, for all practical purposes, does not exist, what has been fixed?

If you ignore history, and you ignore facts, and you ignore inflation, and you ignore the rich powerful men who control you through their opinions about what the value and supply of your money should be, then something (what?) I said might sound like a conspiracy to you. But the joke's on you obviously when you can't even acknowledge the problem we have with our monetary policy.

Sorry, it is just my opinion after all. I just think it can not be as bad as you portray, and can't be fixed as easily as you say. History shows that the gold standard has problems of its own, and its own set of facts and issues. Don't be blinded yourself, just because you think some fraction of an idea is good.

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The only reason I could agree with you is if it was an armagedden event. Otherwise you are suggesting using a sledge hammer to kill a fly.

The trouble it would take to implement your idea would be a lot worse in the short run (20 years?) then what we have now. Sure... hypothetically, several decades down the road, people would say, "Gee that WAS a good idea.", but really, if it is going to take that long, why not wait till AFTER we're out of a crappy Recovery and on level ground again?

I totally agree with that assessment, except... how much money was printed this year? What percentage of the total currency out there was that?

http://www.moneyfact...ionfigures.html

Total (2010): 239.648 Billion

So 5% of that would be 12 Billion in new bills. I don't think that is going to sink a 10 Trillion dollar economy, or even really help, other then with News Spin, the Budget, FedGov Spending, the Deficit, or the National Debt.

Show me how 12 billion added to a trillion dollar economy ruins it?

The engraving department isn't even relevant to quantitative easing because QE is done with electronic money. They don't even have to print the money anymore. And look at the devaluation of our currency all those years before they were adding zeroes with keyboards. It dropped in real value (purchasing power) ~1% per year and the problem is that you approach 100% in a century. And that's just with the Federal Reserve and gradually turning over to total fiat currency, QE is a new digital ponzi scheme for a digital age of money manipulation.

The way out of this fake recovery is a severe recession, which is the same recession (actually depression) that the government keeps printing over and kicking down the road. Interest rates are going up some day whether the Fed prints another gazillion dollars or not. The law of diminishing returns applies to every new iteration of QE we let ourselves digest. The problems will continue to get worse, centered around debt nobody has a political will or political clue to pay for. The market will win sooner or later, what prices it sets and what interest rates it sets will become the prices and rates we live with, this will be a global process more so than at any other time in our history, and all the Fed can do is delay that day, and the longer we put the real recovery off the worse the pain is going to be.

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I never even thought of armageddon and I'm not arguing that at all. You don't understand what I'm saying if you read that into anything I typed. I see how bad things got already and I'm trying to reverse what should be crystal clear.

When you print endless crates of money and blow the money supply up, you can't create value out of thin air. Do you understand that? There is only real value in work, not in adding zeroes to a balance sheet. You are robbing the value that's already out there thanks to the hard work and savings of everyone else who did the right thing. This is robbery, and it's wrapped up in a gobmint wrapper so well, and there are so many voices in the system telling you it's alright, so much statist BS out there convincing you that you must be controlled like a financial slave class, that they get away with it.

What's going to happen in the future is the same thing that's happened for the past 100 years. Don't keep doing the same thing and actually expecting a different result. The numbers are in already. The perpetual and endless devaluation of the dollar is what this discussion is all about. Not conspiracies and changes of subject. I can't believe you can't see the inflation all around you on every major sector of the economy the government has its maws in. From the middle class to the elite. From the savers to the lenders. From capital to credit. From revenue to debt.

I didn't say anything about a stable economy, I said a stable currency. How that's going to help is to make things more affordable for people. We can trade more intelligently than massive labor and manufacturing outsourcing combined with deliberate dollar devaluation to try to help balance out our massive trade deficit.

I still don't understand where all this extra gold the FedGov is going to need will be coming from. Is gold ownership going to be illegal under a Gold Standard? Is the FedGov going to seize private gold? Won't collecting enough gold to cover Trillions of dollars of activity mean that automatically the Debt would leap up Trillions also?

We're going in circles here. From the global marketplace. It will need to be regulated like everything else. Asking good questions is prudent. Implying that it's impossible is ridiculous. It was possible in 1970 and it's possible now. Just because the central bank blew up the money supply doesn't mean that unpouring all that liquid which nobody questions the horrible side effects of doing when Ben Bernanke promises doing it over and over again, it's somehow only an issue when someone is advocating for a gold standard. Do the banks collect reserves they need to meet everyone's bank balance? Do you understand we live in a fractional reserve system? We will live in a fractional gold system as well. If people want to convert cash into gold, they'll have to bid on it in the marketplace. Hoarding gold will no longer make sense like it does today.

If you ignore history, and you ignore facts, and you ignore inflation, and you ignore the rich powerful men who control you through their opinions about what the value and supply of your money should be, then something (what?) I said might sound like a conspiracy to you. But the joke's on you obviously when you can't even acknowledge the problem we have with our monetary policy.

If people want to --is my whole argument.. amen... and I ain't even Jewish.... hahha

The point is: Let the people decide what is valuable and what is not.

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I find it strange how nobody is insisting we chase after digital money created on a keyboard with our printing presses and engraving departments, how nobody is whining over how many new pieces of paper there are (aren't) in circulation accounting for all that phony wealth, but the moment you mention the gold standard everyone throws the entire financial system out the window for new rules that somehow only get applied to gold. Paper gets worn out fast and the creation of new bills is more a process of replacing worn out pieces of paper (and maintaining an abundant supply of bills to meet expected market demand) than making the entire $50 trillion worth of credit out there paperized. I could care less how much paper we have anymore vs. how much money it says we have in our electronic balances. If reserves mattered they'd matter already; not just after some kind of metallic standard is reestablished for our currency.

"Let the people decide." Hear hear!

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I find it strange how nobody is insisting we chase after digital money created on a keyboard with our printing presses and engraving departments, how nobody is whining over how many new pieces of paper there are (aren't) in circulation accounting for all that phony wealth, but the moment you mention the gold standard everyone throws the entire financial system out the window for new rules that somehow only get applied to gold. Paper gets worn out fast and the creation of new bills is more a process of replacing worn out pieces of paper (and maintaining an abundant supply of bills to meet expected market demand) than making the entire $50 trillion worth of credit out there paperized. I could care less how much paper we have anymore vs. how much money it says we have in our electronic balances. If reserves mattered they'd matter already; not just after some kind of metallic standard is reestablished for our currency.

"Let the people decide." Hear hear!

Thats because you haven't been listening to what other people are actually saying to you.

We just don't accept that the Gold Standard is a solution to most of those issues.

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Thats because you haven't been listening to what other people are actually saying to you.

We just don't accept that the Gold Standard is a solution to most of those issues.

Br Cornelius

It's a solution to stabilizing the real value of money.

Congrats on all those gold investors you insist we keep enriching with the price action in this gold market. The other people actually buying it are thanking you for your sacrifice while they bleed the Krugman fiat you're holding dry.

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It's a solution to stabilizing the real value of money.

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As I see it, that is a key point, which needs to be resolved: -- stabilizing the real value of money.

Has an irrefutable answer been suggested?

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As I see it, that is a key point, which needs to be resolved: -- stabilizing the real value of money.

Has an irrefutable answer been suggested?

That is very simple: The standard should be based on the productions of the country emitting the currency, if a country produces 1 trillion in wares its currency should be limited to 1 trillion. If they produce more they can have more, if they produce less the amount will be shrunk. Kills two problems at once: there is no more indiscriminate money printing and there is a strong incentive against "offshoring" jobs.

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That is very simple: The standard should be based on the productions of the country emitting the currency, if a country produces 1 trillion in wares its currency should be limited to 1 trillion. If they produce more they can have more, if they produce less the amount will be shrunk. Kills two problems at once: there is no more indiscriminate money printing and there is a strong incentive against "offshoring" jobs.

This is Keynes on steroids looking at where we are now and where we'd have to go to get there. That equivalence relationship assumes a velocity of money of one, that is, money never changes over more than once, which is unrealistic because the same money is going to change hands multiple times, thus a much smaller amount of money will handle a much larger amount of production. And how badly are these enormous oversupplies of unneeded money going to lag economic output?

If there were just more fallow money lying around that's from the government and here to help, maybe someone will lend it, right? Wrong. They can't even stop blowing up the money supply in the stagflation...errr recovery...they've got us in. Economy growing? We need more money! Nobody lending? Make more money! It's gotten to the point that no matter what our economic situation is, inflating the money supply is the answer. And best of luck unspilling all that liquid, especially in a down economy. It's even been suggested by your fiat proponents already that contraction in the money supply leads to great depressions so it flies in the face of that theory while it inflates the money supply even more than the Keynesians have.

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This is Keynes on steroids looking at where we are now and where we'd have to go to get there. That equivalence relationship assumes a velocity of money of one, that is, money never changes over more than once, which is unrealistic because the same money is going to change hands multiple times, thus a much smaller amount of money will handle a much larger amount of production. And how badly are these enormous oversupplies of unneeded money going to lag economic output?

If there were just more fallow money lying around that's from the government and here to help, maybe someone will lend it, right? Wrong. They can't even stop blowing up the money supply in the stagflation...errr recovery...they've got us in. Economy growing? We need more money! Nobody lending? Make more money! It's gotten to the point that no matter what our economic situation is, inflating the money supply is the answer. And best of luck unspilling all that liquid, especially in a down economy. It's even been suggested by your fiat proponents already that contraction in the money supply leads to great depressions so it flies in the face of that theory while it inflates the money supply even more than the Keynesians have.

Now, why don't you put your evidence where your mouth is and show me which metal based (no matter if gold or silver) currency did not end in bust?

So, prescribing a medicine that we all know will end in failure, to the benefit of a very few gold hoarders, is about the most cynic thing I have heard in my life only befitting those who will walk over corpses to earn a few dollars.

That had to be said in this thread too.

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Now, why don't you put your evidence where your mouth is and show me which metal based (no matter if gold or silver) currency did not end in bust?

So, prescribing a medicine that we all know will end in failure, to the benefit of a very few gold hoarders, is about the most cynic thing I have heard in my life only befitting those who will walk over corpses to earn a few dollars.

That had to be said in this thread too.

What on earth are you talking about sir? I'm talking about basing our currency on gold, real money whose value hasn't gone anywhere near bust, ever.

The US dollar didn't bust. It fluctuated less than one dollar per ounce of gold in 97 years. Can you not understand or appreciate that? Why? What is your agenda to have this much acid to spill about a stable US dollar? Do you have an inner hatred of the US? I get the feeling there's subtle references to that sentiment here.

Listening to Milton Friedman, which was suggested by a fiat lover earlier, blaming gold for the great depression and not the Federal Reserve is the height of cluelessness.

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What on earth are you talking about sir? I'm talking about basing our currency on gold, real money whose value hasn't gone anywhere near bust, ever.

The US dollar didn't bust. It fluctuated less than one dollar per ounce of gold in 97 years. Can you not understand or appreciate that? Why? What is your agenda to have this much acid to spill about a stable US dollar? Do you have an inner hatred of the US? I get the feeling there's subtle references to that sentiment here.

Listening to Milton Friedman, which was suggested by a fiat lover earlier, blaming gold for the great depression and not the Federal Reserve is the height of cluelessness.

Now wait, are you going to tell me, seriously that there was no 1819 grand depression and one following about every 8 years?

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Now wait, are you going to tell me, seriously that there was no 1819 grand depression and one following about every 8 years?

Having hard money people could trust after the country was torn apart by war was important in our nation's recovery. The effects of a hard standard vs. fiat are obvious in your own chart on Karlis's thread. This fiat driven economy is going to hit the bricks some day.

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Having hard money people could trust after the country was torn apart by war was important in our nation's recovery. The effects of a hard standard vs. fiat are obvious in your own chart on Karlis's thread. This fiat driven economy is going to hit the bricks some day.

And so has every gold/silver standard economy. So your point is?

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And so has every gold/silver standard economy. So your point is?

A gold/silver standard economy? I'm just talking about the US dollar.

You can't see the instability on your own chart since the advent of the Federal Reserve system? The value of our dollar should be reliable, predictable, consistent, medium/moderate, steady, and resistant to shocks. Having sound money won't solve all economic problems. It might prevent some of them. But it will reduce the sting of all of them. A gold standard won't solve every economic problem, and it certainly won't grow the economy faster than Bernanke's flood of Federal Reserve Notes next quarter. But it will bring prices back to earth and give our dying middle class a fighting chance again.

A gold standard currency will not fail because gold is money that doesn't fail. Fiat always goes to zero eventually, and no empire is going to last 6,000 years. We're losing ours already.

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A gold/silver standard economy? I'm just talking about the US dollar.

You can't see the instability on your own chart since the advent of the Federal Reserve system? The value of our dollar should be reliable, predictable, consistent, medium/moderate, steady, and resistant to shocks. Having sound money won't solve all economic problems. It might prevent some of them. But it will reduce the sting of all of them. A gold standard won't solve every economic problem, and it certainly won't grow the economy faster than Bernanke's flood of Federal Reserve Notes next quarter. But it will bring prices back to earth and give our dying middle class a fighting chance again.

A gold standard currency will not fail because gold is money that doesn't fail. Fiat always goes to zero eventually, and no empire is going to last 6,000 years. We're losing ours already.

The US dollar is no different than any other currency and if it did not hit the floor yet it is for two reasons: The introduction of the FED after the great depression and the abolishing of the gold standard by Nixon, those were the two most likely time that it could have flown out of the curve.

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