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September 30, 2008 at 11:36 PM #278950September 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM #278629
TheBreeze
ParticipantFree-market capitalism, based on a gold standard, they’ll say, is what causes the boom-bust cycles. When it is actually fiat currency and central banking that causes these problems!
How can you base a monetary system on some arbitrary metal that exists in some arbitrary amount? I’m not saying that the fiat system is better, but a monetary system based on gold just seems like it would be totally random (although the Fed seems pretty random most of the time too).
What if the Earth were hit by a giant meteor made entirely of gold? Instant deflation? Maybe that’s what killed the dinosaurs.
September 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM #278894TheBreeze
ParticipantFree-market capitalism, based on a gold standard, they’ll say, is what causes the boom-bust cycles. When it is actually fiat currency and central banking that causes these problems!
How can you base a monetary system on some arbitrary metal that exists in some arbitrary amount? I’m not saying that the fiat system is better, but a monetary system based on gold just seems like it would be totally random (although the Fed seems pretty random most of the time too).
What if the Earth were hit by a giant meteor made entirely of gold? Instant deflation? Maybe that’s what killed the dinosaurs.
September 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM #278906TheBreeze
ParticipantFree-market capitalism, based on a gold standard, they’ll say, is what causes the boom-bust cycles. When it is actually fiat currency and central banking that causes these problems!
How can you base a monetary system on some arbitrary metal that exists in some arbitrary amount? I’m not saying that the fiat system is better, but a monetary system based on gold just seems like it would be totally random (although the Fed seems pretty random most of the time too).
What if the Earth were hit by a giant meteor made entirely of gold? Instant deflation? Maybe that’s what killed the dinosaurs.
September 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM #278942TheBreeze
ParticipantFree-market capitalism, based on a gold standard, they’ll say, is what causes the boom-bust cycles. When it is actually fiat currency and central banking that causes these problems!
How can you base a monetary system on some arbitrary metal that exists in some arbitrary amount? I’m not saying that the fiat system is better, but a monetary system based on gold just seems like it would be totally random (although the Fed seems pretty random most of the time too).
What if the Earth were hit by a giant meteor made entirely of gold? Instant deflation? Maybe that’s what killed the dinosaurs.
September 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM #278955TheBreeze
ParticipantFree-market capitalism, based on a gold standard, they’ll say, is what causes the boom-bust cycles. When it is actually fiat currency and central banking that causes these problems!
How can you base a monetary system on some arbitrary metal that exists in some arbitrary amount? I’m not saying that the fiat system is better, but a monetary system based on gold just seems like it would be totally random (although the Fed seems pretty random most of the time too).
What if the Earth were hit by a giant meteor made entirely of gold? Instant deflation? Maybe that’s what killed the dinosaurs.
September 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM #278643Arraya
ParticipantThomas Jefferson wrote:
“The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution…
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporation
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”September 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM #278909Arraya
ParticipantThomas Jefferson wrote:
“The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution…
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporation
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”September 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM #278921Arraya
ParticipantThomas Jefferson wrote:
“The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution…
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporation
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”September 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM #278957Arraya
ParticipantThomas Jefferson wrote:
“The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution…
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporation
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”September 30, 2008 at 11:43 PM #278970Arraya
ParticipantThomas Jefferson wrote:
“The [privately-owned] Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly
hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution…
if the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their
currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporation
that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property
until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers
conquered.”September 30, 2008 at 11:44 PM #278638Arraya
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