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Guest Post: How the Paper Money Experiment Will End
Submitted by Philipp Bagus via the Ludwig von Mises Institute blog,
A paper currency system contains the seeds of its own destruction. The temptation for the monopolist money producer to increase the money supply is almost irresistible. In such a system with a constantly increasing money supply and, as a consequence, constantly increasing prices, it does not make much sense to save in cash to purchase assets later. A better strategy, given this scenario, is to go into debt to purchase assets and pay back the debts later with a devalued currency. Moreover, it makes sense to purchase assets that can later be pledged as collateral to obtain further bank loans. A paper money system leads to excessive debt.
This is especially true of players that can expect that they will be bailed out with newly produced money such as big businesses, banks, and the government.
We are now in a situation that looks like a dead end for the paper money system. After the last cycle, governments have bailed out malinvestments in the private sector and boosted their public welfare spending. Deficits and debts skyrocketed. Central banks printed money to buy public debts (or accept them as collateral in loans to the banking system) in unprecedented amounts. Interest rates were cut close to zero. Deficits remain large. No substantial real growth is in sight. At the same time banking systems and other financial players sit on large piles of public debt. A public default would immediately trigger the bankruptcy of the banking sector. Raising interest rates to more realistic levels or selling the assets purchased by the central bank would put into jeopardy the solvency of the banking sector, highly indebted companies, and the government. It looks like even the slowing down of money printing (now called “QE tapering”) could trigger a bankruptcy spiral. A drastic reduction of government spending and deficits does not seem very likely either, given the incentives for politicians in democracies.
So will money printing be a constant with interest rates close to zero until people lose their confidence in the paper currencies? Can the paper money system be maintained or will we necessarily get a hyperinflation sooner or later?
There are at least seven possibilities:
1. Inflate. Governments and central banks can simply proceed on the path of inflation and print all the money necessary to bail out the banking system, governments, and other over-indebted agents. This will further increase moral hazard. This option ultimately leads into hyperinflation, thereby eradicating debts. Debtors profit, savers lose. The paper wealth that people have saved over their life time will not be able to assure such a high standard of living as envisioned.
2. Default on Entitlements. Governments can improve their financial positions by simply not fulfilling their promises. Governments may, for instance, drastically cut public pensions, social security and unemployment benefits to eliminate deficits and pay down accumulated debts. Many entitlements, that people have planned upon, will prove to be worthless.
3. Repudiate Debt. Governments can also default outright on their debts. This leads to losses for banks and insurance companies that have invested the savings of their clients in government bonds. The people see the value of their mutual funds, investment funds, and insurance plummet thereby revealing the already-occurred losses. The default of the government could lead to the collapse of the banking system. The bankruptcy spiral of overindebted agents would be an economic Armageddon. Therefore, politicians until now have done everything to prevent this option from happening.
4. Financial Repression. Another way to get out of the debt trap is financial repression. Financial repression is a way of channeling more funds to the government thereby facilitating public debt liquidation. Financial repression may consist of legislation making investment alternatives less attractive or more directly in regulation inducing investors to buy government bonds. Together with real growth and spending cuts, financial repression may work to actually reduce government debt loads.
5. Pay Off Debt. The problem of overindebtedness can also be solved through fiscal measures. The idea is to eliminate debts of governments and recapitalize banks through taxation. By reducing overindebtedness, the need for the central bank to keep interest low and to continue printing money is alleviated. The currency could be put on a sounder base again. To achieve this purpose, the government expropriates wealth on a massive scale to pay back government debts. The government simply increases existing tax rates or may employ one-time confiscatory expropriations of wealth. It uses these receipts to pay down its debts and recapitalize banks. Indeed the IMF has recently proposed a one-time 10-percent wealth tax in Europe in order to reduce the high levels of public debts. Large scale cuts in spending could also be employed to pay off debts. After WWII, the US managed to reduce its debt-to-GDP ratio from 130 percent in 1946 to 80 percent in 1952. However, it seems unlikely that such a debt reduction through spending cuts could work again. This time the US does not stand at the end of a successful war. Government spending was cut in half from $118 billion in 1945 to $58 billion in 1947, mostly through cuts in military spending. Similar spending cuts today do not seem likely without leading to massive political resistance and bankruptcies of overindebted agents depending on government spending.
6. Currency Reform. There is the option of a full-fledged currency reform including a (partial) default on government debt. This option is also very attractive if one wants to eliminate overindebtedness without engaging in a strong price inflation. It is like pressing the reset button and continuing with a paper money regime. Such a reform worked in Germany after the WWII (after the last war financial repression was not an option) when the old paper money, the Reichsmark, was substituted by a new paper money, the Deutsche Mark. In this case, savers who hold large amounts of the old currency are heavily expropriated, but debt loads for many people will decline.
7. Bail-in. There could be a bail-in amounting to a half-way currency reform. In a bail-in, such as occurred in Cyprus, bank creditors (savers) are converted into bank shareholders. Bank debts decrease and equity increases. The money supply is reduced. A bail-in recapitalizes the banking system, and eliminates bad debts at the same time. Equity may increase so much, that a partial default on government bonds would not threaten the stability of the banking system. Savers will suffer losses. For instance, people that invested in life insurances that in turn bought bank liabilities or government bonds will assume losses. As a result the overindebtedness of banks and governments is reduced.
Any of the seven options, or combinations of two or more options, may lie ahead. In any case they will reveal the losses incurred in and end the wealth illusion. Basically, taxpayers, savers, or currency users are exploited to reduce debts and put the currency on a more stable basis. A one-time wealth tax, a currency reform or a bail-in are not very popular policy options as they make losses brutally apparent at once. The first option of inflation is much more popular with governments as it hides the costs of the bail out of overindebted agents. However, there is the danger that the inflation at some point gets out of control. And the monopolist money producer does not want to spoil his privilege by a monetary meltdown. Before it gets to the point of a runaway inflation, governments will increasingly ponder the other options as these alternatives could enable a reset of the system.
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It will end in digital money.
Look at this mindfuck....
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101362285
Look at this "crusty veteran" Cashin try to equate a 10 bil taper from 85 bil in QE to 75 bil to Volker hiking rates to 14% in 1982 and "choking inflation to death" and then he backed off because the Mexican Peso was in trouble.
Is that some shit or what?
Personally, I'm hoping it ends in public hangings, as well.
There is no taper. Only lies about it. FED has been monetizing North of 100 Bil per month for years. Add up all the back door shenanigans and you'll arrive at the same conclusion.
Thats why you have to pick up these free bitcoins while it lasts..I am up to FREE 1/2 a bitcoin a week, forever..or until the site dies..haven't used a dime..
http://freebitco.in/?r=224682
But, of course. Free money!?
From a distance, this portrait looks alot like Bernanke hung amongst a wall papered with US currency.
https://www.google.com/search?q=money+wallpaper+for+house&source=lnms&tb...
Sure...ain't never going to happen
Old Financing:
borrow money. build a house. borrow money. add/improve on house.
bank lists house on its assets. as house value increases, so does the bank asset. owner pays off mortgage and then dies.
Recent Financing:
borrow money. buy a house. house value declines. owner defaults. bank doesn't evict. bank continues to up-value the house. former owner is now a squatter.
Emerging Financing:
borrow money. build a house. internal walls is made with silver rods. each month, the owner sells a rod and uses the cash to pay the monthly mortgage. when the rods have all been liquidated, owner walks away.
Paper Money Excrement.
My eyes playing tricks on me.
Paper money doing what it always does chap n to the x
http://www.goldonomic.com/When%20Money%20Dies.pdf
Had been wondering what the trigger would be looks like Chicom letting one of their 'investment' vehicles collapse will time in with Turkish delight and Vensuleian(?) socialism.
buckle up this may be a bumpy ride
death march to monetary concentration camp of inflationary chokehold til last breath.
OK, so Governor Walker has been in Wisconsin for like what.. 2 years or so?
I just heard from a noted talk show entertainer that the state is running an f’n $ 1 Billion SURPLUS now and that he is pushing legislation that will rebate the surplus to property tax payers.
Stick THAT up your posteriors, you liberal MF’s (meant as a literal.. you all probably do your mothers and grannies).
good for him..........
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/writers/steven_elbow/league-of-wis...
Walker for President ! Let's get the ball rolling!
whoa.. now that's an idea..
Wisconsin's loss might be the country's gain.
I'm in if no skeletons in his closet.
..everybody has some bones somewhere..
there is no total purity or perfection..
as Daniel Hannen noted, man is fallen..
let's work with that.. except if you are a golf addict choom fool that is owned by GS.
My own towship went from a $200K per year DEFICIT to a $500K per year SURPLUS after throwing the bums off the board and severing ties with their cronies. Put a nice group of conservatives in there, found out there was so much corruption we called the District Atty. on some of the old board members, and then set about fixing the problems. It took ONE YEAR to realize the radical improvement in fiscal health and NOT ONE SINGLE SEVICE WAS CUT TO ACHIEVE THAT.
I could get behind Scott Walker a lot easier than I could be persuaded to feign excitement for the Fat Man.
No real reformer can get elected President or not be assassinated if he/she were.
The Fed/MIC/NSA/CIA rule.
At least until Bitcoin and friends end-run them, stripping them of their power.
Nobody for president, please....or governor or congress or any of that. Enough already!
When will people learn? Probably not in my (your) lifetime. Oh, well.
"I believe we are headed now into a breakup of the nation into smaller units, but this time there will be no reconstituting the original USA as in 1865." — James Howard Kunstler, http://www.peakprosperity.com/insider/84262/get-ready-strange-days
Yes, we are, and I fully expect it to happen before the decade is out. States Rights is a resurgent phenomenon, after all (drug legalization, Obamacare nullification, etc.), and as the abysmal failure of our vaunted experiment in federative government sinks in, I believe the American people are going to experience the same sense of futility that their Soviet counterparts did, "We pretend to work, and they pretent to pay us" being their running joke.
How long, then, before something like it — "We pretend to rule, and they pretend to let us"? — so infuses the public consciousness that the American people collectively Just Say No and walk away?
It's over, after all, and surely, at some level, we all know it.
Nebraska looking to do the same.
Check out what Bruce Rauner is trying to do for IL: http://brucerauner.com/?utm_term=RaunerGov&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=...
Dare we say the tide is beginning to turn??
That Kock bros. sellout?
You can be serious, You believe that?
Government Unionized Workers took a large cut in benefits because of Scott Walker's actions.
It would help if the Federal Government Employees lost some of thier pension compensation and benefits also.
It is not a "cure all" but it is a good start.
You know that when Government was "shut down" the Government Employees were delighted to take an UNSCHEDULED PAID VACATION at Taxpayer Expense. That is why they want to Shut Government Down again.
If eBay and Google. start accepting Bitcoin it will go to thousands of dollars per BTC this year.
hope so. gold silver and BTC is the way to go.
If pigs had wings they could fly.
We are making history while the losers are being left behind. Enjoy the SHTFantasy'ing fellas!
Not necessarily. Ostriches have wings and they don't.
I'm starting to think that people pushing Bitcoins are part of the pump-and-dump crowd.
Bitcoin isn't some stock that can be pumped. It's $780 today because it's the vastly superior product, not because anyone pumped it there.
"Thats why you have to pick up these free bitcoins while it lasts"
Isn't that precisely what got this country into trouble? Thinking that you can get 'sumthin for 'nothin? Can't create wealth the old fashioned way? Just print it! Isn't that what you are saying? What a load of crap.
thread jacker..
Right, the pinnacle of mathematical, networking and cryptograpic genius is tantamount to "nothin" according to braindead morons on Zerohedge.
luckily for all us incredibly stupid idiots at ZH, we've got you around to set us straight!
glad to see you're so charitable so sit around here 'educating' us every chance you get to open your cum recepticle.
If Bitcoin was such a great deal then why are you spamming for it? Shouldn't you be trying to keep it a secret while you accumulate Bitcoins?
Personally, I'm not worried about it. It seems 95% of people will not get Bitcoin no matter what.
Without widespread acceptance the BTC is doomed to failure.
But in the chance that there is a greater acceptance of the Cryptocurrency...
How are you planning to account for the growing data size of the BLOCKCHAIN??? My Internet Downlink speed is not growing anywhere near as rapidly as the Blockchain size of BTC.
That means that if BTC progresses into wider acceptance then the TIME for transactions increase Exponentially as there are limits to download and upload speeds.
If you claim that there will be a Central Hub, Supernodes, that will store any portion of those transactions, then the Cryptocurrency is subject to control by another entity.
Anonymity will disappear.
The software architechture is flawed.
I am not the only one whom knows this...
Watch the video from StormCloudsGathering.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeA94BedQI
You cannot hide the truth, fonestar.
That is totally false. Bitcoin already has been elected by the technical elite as the currency and those are the only people who really matter on this planet. Joe Six-Pack and Farmer Bob are superfluous and they can go fruck themselves.
...the technical elite as the currency and those are the only people who really matter on this planet.
Well when you need your Toilet fixed I am certain that you will not be paying in Bitcon. What good is it if it is not a viable Curency? If I cannot trade it for what I want then it serves no purpose.
And if you are looking toward "Corporate Plumbers" and "Corporate Auto Mechanics" then you are really detached.
Enjoy your Corporatocracy. That is what you promote. That is fascist. You are part of the problem, fonestar.
Incredible. I just won .00000228 bitcoin. I'm rich. Try again in 1 hour.
OMG, thats almost 0.01 USD! Actually its 1/10th of 0.01 USD, but hey...
Why do you spread this shit?
Maybe he simply does not know that the less you have to pay for something - the less is free.
Public hangings will do nothing to stop anything. Billions of unfunded walking liabilities will have to be liquidated. The use of credit as money has been going on for 1000s of years.... why? Because humans want something for nothing including the majority of the 7 Billion on this floating rock.
"same conclusion"
Whether or not the Fed does this or that will not eliminated the same conclusion. Attaching interest to your medium of exchange will eventually get you to unable to grow at an exponential growth, collapse and then liquidation of the unfunded walking liabilities.
Sounds like you are into the Hilter way of liquidation of the walking unfunded liabilities. Quick. The world hired Hilter to do within a decade what it would have taken 40-60 years without him.
You never know unless you try.
I wonder who the unlucky SOB is... I mean there is 7 billion to choose from. Popcorn ready.
Public hangings are the ONLY thing that ever stopped corruption.
That does not address the issue....
The system is collapse due to Math i.e. humans believing they can supply and demand exponential growth. So, King George hangs X amount of people then I guess there is no corruption, good luck with all that.
Good luck in your hangings... unless of course you are the one they come for. :)
This is an oversimplification. Human beings do not believe that at all. I highly doubt if government officials do despite what they say, note the massive amounts of commodity purchases going on by the wealthy. The governments have painted their way into a corner and the only way out is through collapse. The goal is to kick the can to the next guy in line.
Nobody is going to get elected by saying they can cause more pain now to avoid potential pain in the future. People get into power by telling everyone that they can take money away from others and give it (through services or directly) to whomever they happen to be speaking to at the moment.
If you can devise a way to stop the current economic death spiral without violence as a result, I'd love to hear it.
Landotfree, awesome reasoning against ~some~ brainwashed idiots at Zero Hedge [unfortunately].
Those efficient Germans.
"The Architect - Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it." - The Matrix Reloaded
Now there exists even more efficient ways of liquidation i.e. nuclear fusion. Either way the result of use of the equation will produce the same conclusion.
how much time do we have??
Chart expnential growth.... the norm is 60-80 years and the chart goes damn near straight up depending on a few factors.
Even with the Fed, Japan and China doing everything they can, the system is dangerously close to not expanding.... the war against the equation is never won... it always wins... just like Truth.
There is not that much time left at all.
Most will be unaware of what hit them.
It will be quick.
Maybe it is better to leave them asleep and unaware.
The use of credit as money has been going on for a long time. The difference now is that those creating credit based money have nothing to offer in exchange for the credit they have created. In the past those who created trade-able credits did so to facilitate a sale of a real good which lent backing to the notes they created. Credit based money (which is not mentioned by the author) is the greatest fraud ever foisted upon this planet. Public hanging of all those involved in fractional reserve banking would send a message to all humanity that would ring loud for a millenium. The financial sector is one big parasite sucking the lifeblood out of humanity. A useless lot that no one needs except corrupt gov'ts. I am sure we can find room on the gallows for those who swore to serve society but chose themselves instead.
There can be no real change without such drastic action. I am very optimistic that people will take appropriate action as our banks (and the gov'ts they own) continue to act with such hubris.
Credit based money (which is not mentioned by the author) is the greatest fraud ever foisted upon this planet. Public hanging of all those involved in fractional reserve banking would send a message to all humanity that would ring loud for a millenium.
Have you ever used a Credit Card? Have you ever financed a car? Have you ever purchased a Mortgage on a Home?
Take a good look in the mirror as you were directly involved in the Fraud, regardless of whether or not you paid off your debt.
Look at yourself in the Mirror. Enjoy your Hanging.
To calculate the drop necessary to break your neck you take 1000 and divide that by your weight. That is the Drop required to deliver the 1000 foot pounds to your neck.. Slow Strangulation is rather painful. You want your neck broken.
3/4 Inch Three Strand Manila Hemp is a Good Rope to use. Boil it and then Strech the Rope for a day by suspending it with 1000 lbs of stones in a bag at the Noose End. That ensures that all of the Force is deliverered to the neck at the end of the drop and none of the energy will be wasted through stretching the rope. If done properly there will be little to no recoil at the end of the drop on Hanging Day.
The British Noose is the most efficient. Do not use that Noose seen in all of the Cowboy Western Movies which the Americans use. Make sure that the eye of the noose is underneath your Right Chin with the massive part which forms that eye is against your Adam's Apple. This ensures Death by not only severing the Spinal Cord inside of the dislocated Neck Vertabrae but has the affect of crushing the Esophagus.
Of course if the drop is too much then decapitation is the result. That is just too messy to clean up.
Enjoy your hanging.
Exactly, if I was smashing you in the face with a bag of assholes, would you really care how many assholes the bag contained?
Germany wants all the gold back.
http://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Missfelder-will-Bundes-Gold-heimholen-arti...
Yes Fonz.
Bitcoin is going mainstream with users, but more importantly merchants. Expecting this to accelerate this year.
Electronic gold and silver and whatever other commodity will then be in direct competition with crypto currencies.
This is the dawn of a new Age...
"This is the dawn of a new Age..."
Yeah, this time it's different.
There's never been decentralized, P2P currencies before.... so yes this is very different.
Jeez, man, aren't you missing a Star Trek convention somewhere?
Give it a rest or open The Church of the High Holy Tech Solutions. Something.
We need a break.
fonestar: "There's never been decentralized, P2P currencies before"
Apparently he's never heard of bank notes. Private commercial banks have issued their own scrip for centuries, which circulated as currencies everywhere from the U.S. to Europe and back in Han Dynasty China. Most of them plunged in value as the issuing bank's credit circled the bowl.
I'm sure this time will be different. Did you not notice that Bernanke was careful to say that BTC was beyond the Fed's control? That's called baiting the trap. They would love to see you pile all your personal wealth into a vaporous cyber currency block chain, where they can steal it faster than you can say "dropoutJeep".
Comparing 19th century private bank notes to Bitcoin is almost as dumb as Wired Magazine's article about Civil War era stamp laws killing Bitcoin.
If you cannot trust something you cannot see that is supposedly stored on the rock safe internets, then what can you trust?
I'm going to buy 3 rolls of BitCoins as soon as OblamoCare pays for my lobotomy.
Why do I need to see or hold something to trust it? Most of the things I trust I cannot see.
"Why do I need to see or hold something to trust it?"
Spoken with the childlike uncritical faith of a Jim-Jones cultist. How about all the people who owned stocks with or through MF Global? When Corzine blew it up, they were left with nothing. You know why? Because they didn't have the paper stock certificates; all their shares are belong to the Deposit Trust Clearing Corporation. If they'd taken delivery of the certificates, they wouldn't have lost all that sleep. Instead, they trusted crooks they'd never met with assets they'd never seen.
In Corzine we trust. In Obama we trust. In Bernanke we trust. In some Japanese programmer whose real name we don't know, WE TRUST.
All that faith buys you a ticket to a hard lesson. But don't get me wrong: It's your right to sink every penny you've got into a currency that can disappear at night while you're asleep, or be declared illegal, or lose half its value in a day, or be confiscated by General Clapper. It's your money.
Give it a rest or open The Church of the High Holy Tech Solutions.
I'll tell you when fonestar gives it a rest. When the Bitcoiners and devotees of Satoshi Nakamoto achieve TBA (Total Bitcoin Adoption).
I just want to know why you think the US government is going to let Bitcoin compete with the dollar...??? I'm not being snide or glib... inquiring minds....
missing his medications, at the very least.
Robospamming DXM
Until I can charge clients and pay employees in bitcoin (ie get paid), I don't care about it. I don't see the point until that time. If you can't get paid in bitcoin, you are speculating in the exchange rate.
Correct, the only value is in the ability to make discrete transactions. the problem being that this applies to all the same bad actors (the TBTF banks) as well. They still have plenty of firepower to manipulate that exchange rate however they like.
Until I can charge clients and pay employees in bitcoin (ie get paid), I don't care about it. I don't see the point until that time. If you can't get paid in bitcoin, you are speculating in the exchange rate.
Buy now, buy at $10,000 or buy in at $100,000 BTC. Your choice.
HURRY YOU MUST ACT NOW!! Now or you'll miss this opportunity FOREVER!! YOU MUST GIVE UP YOUR MONEY NOW! Before it's to late!!!
You get a variant of the above most confidence games...
BTC went from $300 to $800 in about what, 5 days? And since it has done nothing, except lose money for most who bought after that, 800->1100-> 800->900->800, etc.
And all the commercial mining set ups come online when? In like 30 days?
Rafter - " YOU MUST GIVE UP YOUR MONEY NOW! Before it's to late!!!"
This is genius, Im not sure even i could resist getting into bitcoins if the price goes parabolic.
"so yes this is very different." - not really, so long as the usual suspect can participate in the P2P currency market. Now, should we elimiate these fraudulent actors ability to do so, then you might have something. For now, the P2P currencies will only hasten the demise as they are conveinient mechanisms for moving wealth or buying things descretely. Until the bad actors are put to death, nothing has changed. P2P currencies won't change that, I'll descretely move my funds to physical assets (where I know they are safe) and use the P2P network to discretely purchase things I don't want the NSA to be aware of.
Left hand threaded wing nut. Severe Delusional neurosis.
Bitcoin, yeah, right?! Bitcon has got some very powerful force pulling the strings behind the curtains and anyone that can't see this needs to put down the Bitcoin Kool-Aid. When has any country or govt said it's o.k. to use a competing currency within its borders? The answer is NEVER, NEVER and ABSOLUTELY NEVER. Heck, they've invaded countries for less than this yet Bitcon somehow magically gets around all of these prevailing forces. Not to mention the non-ending positive press from the media. Am I the only one that believes this is more than incredibly odd? Then consider that some magical force has pumped up the Bitcoin price like a race horse.
https://btc-e.com/
If you ever look at the bids here you will see there are usually 2 large buy orders keeping a floor under the price...
Digital money is intrinsically evil. It is the reason the current system has survived this long, decades longer than it should have. When everything crashes back to Earth, the only thing people will trust won't be stored in 1's and 0's. It will be in their jingling pockets.
By the time this thing crashes the populace will be so dumbed down they will trust whatever Jon Stewart tells them to trust.
Of all state propagandists you pick John Stewart? Interesting.
by a landslide
His brother left the NYSE, so it's all OK now. You can trust him.
Who's John Stewart? No, I really don't know. that's the point; why do you know? Why do you expose yourself to the organs of state propaganda?
Know your enemy.
If you do not know the enemy then you know not what to fight or how to fight.
His name is JON...without the 'h'.
No... it will end in blood, and lots of it.
Maybe from foreign nukes, not from any fantasy "American revolution".
The blood will by yours, not theirs.
Most of the solutions listed above are either being tried out now, or are being experimented with.
Bagus, the author of this piece did an excellent video on the Euro crisis. How the Euro came to be, how it got f******
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0hsY7R0ck
tick, tick, tick, tick...
okay... I'll play along...
WHO'S THERE?
"Euro". Euro, who? yourowe everybody.
Exponential debt spells the end.
Cancel the fucking debts (which cancels the savings of the oligarchic fucks who own 90% of it).
No, no, lets instead do a reverse Robin Hood, 10% wealth tax (for poor people only), to pay off sovereign debts...
It always Comes back to Gold.
but they usually take out one letter in the word to get you to do other things
or just plain ol outlaw ownership, or at least try...
They are trying to outlaw ownership and Inheritance. That is the goal. That is what the ACA is actually about. If you get subsidized by Medicaid then the Government takes your assets to satisfy the "Medicaid" Bill which you rang up.
It always comes back to food and water. Violence typically a component of the journey.
Silver. Govt.s and Big Banks are too interested in Gold; why buy yourself problems? Silver will appreciate more also; and they will ignore it cause the whole market is so tiny.
Hasn't happened so far. The small size of the silver market only means that one bank (JPM) can control the price rather than requiring the coordinated activities of several.
It will end in a great war.
It will end with a great deal of finger pointing and crying.
"recapitalize banks through taxation" - So bail these fuckers out again? I don't think so motherfucker.
Let them die, perhaps someday, someone will step forward to provide a real banking alternative.
There haven't been "banks" on the planet for quite some time.
I'm not really sure what real banking is though. IMO, fractional reserve banking will inevitably give way to bankers having excessive influence and power, and it also encourages us to consume future resources in the present.
Next person to say the word "tax" gets a 2x4 to the back of the head.
Even when said in the context of "Property taxes are unethical?"
or a 2 x 2 wrapped with barbed wire up their ars...
Tsk tsk, there are several in DC who might enjoy that.
the visual reminds me of the last deer i gutted. removing the ars hole is a bitch.
reeming good time. hey its still warm, hmmm...
Open up the abdominal cavity, split the pelvis, cut the asshole out and send it back home to DC.
Bingo split them first get your fingers around it
Tax tax tax
Don't get wrong, I'm as conservative as anyone you've ever met, but if the system needs to be recapitalized go get it from the fuckers who stole it... not hard working guys like me.
""recapitalize banks through taxation"
I say, sure! But one problem, who's going to sew the heads of these motherfuckers back on?!
DC will bail out the criminals again. Socialize losses and privatize profits.
More wealth stealing. Until banksters are tried by the masses.
Print like crazy while you're thinking about how to save your ass
and in the meantime, at least it will have toilet paper
It's not an "experiment" it is theft and we already know from history how it ends.
Sort of like me starting my neighbors house on fire and calling it an "experiment" to see what would happen.
Exactly. Theft. Ongoing theft; been going on for a long time now; it's accelerating.
"how the paper experiment will end"
I got in all down on paper
Instigate war between China and Japan. You don't need to pay that money back if the bond holders are dead.
Hey, that's not a bad idea.
And you could sell both sides billions in weapons!!
Say, I wonder if Someone Else has ever done that?
We have another 20 years of currency...will it be paper? Look for the polymer plastic model.......Uk to start use of polymer notes in 2016. Twenty countries already use them. Crypto-currencies , who knows.
I remember reading the Weimar chronicles, how the government was paying salaries of unionized workers with printed cash and even paying those who refused to work in foreign countries under WW1 reparation agreement. Almost all of the Germany's printing houses were running full time printing bank notes in the early 20's. Then in July 1922 the money printers themselves went on strike and that was one of the things for the currency shock - for a moment the Deutschmarks couldn't keep up with their own rate of inflation and that's when it all ended.
"If you want to keep your paper experiment, you cannot keep your paper experiment."
I think #4 Financial Repression will be next, mandate that 401k's have to purchase X amount of US treasuries because it's the patriotic thing to do.
bingo, you are vested mutha fuka...
QE and ZIRP already constitute financial repression. They are not of sufficient magnitude to do the job, since the debts are too large.
Agreed. Owners of 401K's, and especially IRA's in money market funds are in great danger. Governments always steal everything that they can get their hands on, on the way down.
There's a plan for that.
"Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration."
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dems-target-private-retirement...
To be rolled out, like the Patriot Act, when the appropriate level of fear has been reached.
There's a plan for that.
"Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts — including 401(k)s and IRAs — and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration."
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dems-target-private-retirement...
To be rolled out, like the Patriot Act, when the appropriate level of fear has been reached.
Because: "
The current retirement system, Ghilarducci said, “exacerbates income and wealth inequalities” because tax breaks for voluntary retirement accounts are “skewed to the wealthy because it is easier for them to save, and because they receive bigger tax breaks when they do.”"
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Looks like a dead end? Now there's a Five Star understatement!
The Author forgets alternative #8. This is the route taken by many smaller countries.
#8 Beg for handouts from your rich neighbor under the threat of going unstable.
9) take back the country by force and institute sound money.
the only force that's significant in the modern world, (post WW11), is air force. without air superiority taking anything back by force is out of the question. When the Russians achieved air superiority on the eastern front, the Wehrmacht folded like a cheap toy.
A military coup is possible; a civilian insurrection is impossible.
The Afghanis did not have a superior Air Force (ANY AIR FORCE) to that of the Soviet Union. They won that war.
The North Vietnamese did not have a superior Air Force to that of the United States. They won that war.
The Iraqi Insurgents did not have a superior Air Force (ANY AIR FORCE) to that of the United States. We left Iraq in a mess and they expelled us. They won that war.
The Afghanis are currently engaged with the United States without any Air Force. They seem to be prevailing after 11 Years of conflict.
Superior Air Forces do not ensure victory. Post World war II History is replete of examples where this is not the case. There are many exceptions to the rule. Generally in asymetrical conflicts an Air Force is not necessary to achieve the goals.
#10) Government kills its own citizens.
Soon Groves Law will not be able to keep up with Greenspam/Bernanke/Yellen
Banks eh?
(from wiki) ....
The word bank was borrowed in Middle English from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca, from Old High German banc, bank "bench, counter". Benches were used as desks or exchange counters during the Renaissance by Florentine bankers, who used to make their transactions atop desks covered by green tablecloths
Hmm, from Italy, during the Renaissance period... That rings a bell with a play that involved a "banker".
Fast forward, check out today's FED bankers:
1. The previous head,
2. The out-going head,
3. The incoming head,
4. and her vice head....
What's really changed?
reminds me of something else that had 4 heads...
FEED HIM TO THE SHARKACONS
or...a new system will emerge which allows governments to continue with their fiat...only this time constrained...by a relationship to gold.
Currencies that hold gold on their balance sheet, MARKED TO MARKET, as the euro does, will think twice before unrestrained printing. If they take that course they will see the POG rise in their currency and its value will rapidly fall. As Rueff observed, our current system evolved from the gold exchange standard, one of "astonishment and scandal". Corrections will be made as these fiats, as they currenctly exist, are unstable. It does not have to be so. Freegold...see fofoa.
The only constraint you can have by relating to gold, is to in-fact offer to exchange gold for the "fiat". Right now there's 1oz of gold per person on earth. It costs a little less than 1oz of gold in resources to create a new ounce. Thus, an ounce is worth less than $2,000. Each person would then be limited to $2,000 dollars in savings and debt. Does that work for you?