MONEY: The Yuan as the world’s reserve currency

Thursday, May 21, 2009

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30836189

Buy Yuan and Beware of Boys, Rogers Tells His Daughters
By: Dora Cheok, News Editor | 20 May 2009 | 04:05 AM ET
Say the name Jim Rogers, and these thoughts might

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“I own the Chinese renminbi. It’s not that easy to buy and sell the renminbi because it’s a blocked currency. But I own it and every chance I get to get some more renminbi, I do so.” Rogers says.

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Will the yuan become the next reserve currency for the world?

That would surely signal the end of the American Empire and the beginning of its financial collapse.

TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)

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MONEY: Inflation is a hidden tax

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

http://tslrf.blogspot.com/2009/05/inflation.html

Friday, May 8, 2009

Inflation

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This is a backdoor tax because a tax was not passed. You did not have money stolen out of your paycheck and didn’t write them a check but they in effect reached into your wallet and bank accounts and via a loss purchasing power you were essentially taxed.

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Insidious backdoor taxation. Coming to you very soon!

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MONEY: Personal Finance Know It All

Thursday, May 7, 2009

http://lifehacker.com/5244024/free-50+page-pdf-of-the-simple-dollars-best-advice

Free 50-Page PDF of The Simple Dollar’s Best Advice
By Kevin Purdy, 7:00 AM on Thu May 7 2009

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The Simple Dollar, an oft-Lifehacker-linked personal finance blog, is giving away a 50-page PDF, “Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance on Just One Page.” Definitely worth the 4.4 MB download.

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Now I’m no fan of a 4 meg pdf. But, it’s free. (My favorite price!) And this is one of my “usually reliable” sources.

FYI, do what you want. You will anyway.

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MONEY: Watch an old quizz show

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Just for an “economics lesson”, watch an old “Let’s Make A Deal” on Game Show Network. Pick any episode. They’re all from the Sixities. Watch for the final prize giveaway. It’s usually a car. Guess the price?

A beautiful Buick LeSabre. Base price 3,000 dollars.

Different dollars!

It makes you laugh!

But, it should make us all cry.

Some store of value.

In 40 years, will people be looking back wistfully about what a dollar could buy!

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MONEY: The dollar as the world’s reserve currency

Saturday, May 2, 2009

http://www.garynorth.com/public/4879.cfm

The Emperor’s New Tools
Gary North
April 25, 2009

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Bernanke assured his listeners that the FED has lots of ways to deal with this threat — painless, politically acceptable ways, he implied.

We have a number of tools we can use to reduce bank reserves or increase short-term interest rates when that becomes necessary. First, many of our lending programs extend credit primarily on a short-term basis and thus could be wound down relatively quickly. In addition, since the lending rates in these programs are typically set above the rates that prevail in normal market conditions, borrower demand for these facilities should wane as conditions improve.

Translation: “The money we have created to bail out the financial system will return to the FED and be mopped up. It will not be lent out again.” The word “many” means “we aren’t saying how much, and we will not tell you if you ask.”

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They have no tools. Only the ability to pull the wool over the sheep’s eyes using their own wool.

I don’t understand: (1) Why the Chinese will hold more dollars? (2) Who’s going to buy Obama’s trillion dollar deficits? (3) What’s going to become of those on fixed income when inflation takes off? (4) What’s going to happen to the American economy when foreigners what to get paid with real money for the stuff they are sending us?

Argh!

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MONEY: The dollar is a figment of your imagination

Friday, May 1, 2009

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=59

The Fed and the Golden Fleece
By William Anderson
Published 04/22/09

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When I teach my economics classes about money, I pass around a $10 gold coin that is a replica of those that were in circulation around 1913, the year Congress created the Federal Reserve System. The coin is made from one-half of an ounce of gold, dating from the time when the dollar was based upon a standard of $20 an ounce.

If I were to value that coin today, according to current gold prices, it would sell for more than $400, which means that according to this way of measuring the value of money, the dollar is worth about 1/40 of what it was when the Fed came into being. Now, this is not necessarily the best or most accurate measure of the decline of the dollar, but it is good enough for the purposes of this article.

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Regardless of how you calculate it or the timeframe you use, the dollar is NOT a store of value.

In my book Church (page 113),  “Money is a matter of functions four, a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.”

The dollar, after the 1913 creation of the Fed, was no longer a measure, standard, or store.

As a youth, reading the Count of Monte Cristo, I dreamt of someday finding a pirate’s treasure. (Hard to imagine anyone not dreaming to find that chest, win the lotto, or such.)

Imagine instead of a chest of gold, finding a chest of dollars. When they were put in, they were valuable. Now they’re worth a fraction.

I often remember my now deceased father-in-law carrying a fifty dollar bill in his wallet ever since he was a young man. He always said: “With that, I’m never poor!” Sad to say, that each year, the value that fifty represented was inflated away. Stolen by the govenrment!

Gold is the only defense.

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MONEY: “Counterfeit” money

Monday, April 27, 2009

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/demand-for-gold-is-in-mint-condition/

Demand for Gold is in Mint Condition
By The Mogambo Guru

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04/20/09 Tampa Bay, Florida MoneyNews.Newsmax.com had the interesting headline “Mints Rush to Meet Gold Coin Demand.” It starts off with a blockbuster statement, namely that the world is in “crisis mode”. In fact, a report by The Independent in the United Kingdom notes, “With the world economy now in crisis mode, gold coin production is rising” all over the place, with the result that, “As investor appetite for gold increases worldwide, nations which mint coins of the precious metal have hiked production to satisfy the growing demand.”

In fact, demand for gold is so high that “Sales in the United States of the one-ounce gold American Eagle coin, minted from gold bullion, soared more than 400 percent in 2008 over previous sales to 710,000 ounces” which seems like a lot until you remember that the gold mines of the world produce about 80 million ounces of new gold per year, and so 710,000 ounces ain’t really squat, in the Big Scheme Of Things (BSOT).

Even so, a spokesperson for the U.S. Mint said, “Demand for gold and silver has been unprecedented”, although you would hardly know it from my field research, where I randomly accost people on the street and ask them, “Hey! You! Are you buying and/or holding large quantities of gold as a defense against the ruinous inflation in prices that your own stupid government is causing by deficit-spending almost $2 trillion this year alone, when the GDP of the Whole Freaking Country (WFC) is only about $14 trillion, or are you some kind of moron that can’t even answer a simple question?”

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Hard to imagine how this “train wreck” in Washington is going to result in anything good for the common people. Many of the economists, who profess the Austrian School, know that without gold as money, the “Sovereign” (i.e., the King in the old days; the FED today) will debase the “currency” to the detriment of The People.

Go to the Smithsonian. See the Smithsonian exhibit of French Franc throughout history. From the hockey puck of gold from Louis 1 to the paper thin collar button of Louis XVII! It’s a visual of what every gooferment does with its power to define money for us.

We, The People, need to define for ourselves what money is. And it needs to be anchor is a value that can’t be “counterfeited” by any “Sovereign”!

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MONEY: Shills hide that some government debt is unsellable

Sunday, April 26, 2009

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/
ambroseevans_pritchard/5220118/
The-capital-well-is-running-dry-and-some-economies-will-wither.html

The capital well is running dry and some economies will wither

The world is running out of capital. We cannot take it for granted that the global bond markets will prove deep enough to fund the $6 trillion or so needed for the Obama fiscal package, US-European bank bail-outs, and ballooning deficits almost everywhere.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 8:49AM BST 26 Apr 2009

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Unless this capital is forthcoming, a clutch of countries will prove unable to roll over their debts at a bearable cost. Those that cannot print money to tide them through, either because they no longer have a national currency (Ireland, Club Med), or because they borrowed abroad (East Europe), run the biggest risk of default.

Traders already whisper that some governments are buying their own debt through proxies at bond auctions to keep up illusions – not to be confused with transparent buying by central banks under quantitative easing. This cannot continue for long.

Commerzbank said every European bond auction is turning into an “event risk”. Britain too finds itself some way down the AAA pecking order as it tries to sell £220bn of Gilts this year to irascible investors, astonished by 5pc deficits into the middle of the next decade.

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In this long article, the author asserts that not all is good in the “Emerald City”. No need to look behind the curtain.

The FED is buying Treasury debt.

Who is going to finance the American deficits?

And, at what interest rate?

How can shills buying the unsellable help the gangs finance their wasteful ways?

When does this one very big and ugly chicken come home to roost?

Argh!

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MONEY: Tax avoidence; technology style

Thursday, April 23, 2009

http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/04/16/keeping-what-what-we-make-away-from-the-tax-man/

April 16, 2009
Keeping What What We Make Away From the Tax-man
by tarran

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The story of the 20th and 21st centuries are, if nothing else, the capture of the banking system by the state. It is becoming increasingly difficult for people to amass wealth that is securely theirs. Bank accounts can be confiscated. Their money can be held hostage via a banking holiday. Regulators can learn intimate details of the private affairs of individuals by reviewing the banks’ records.

Those of us who wish to reverse the trend towards an ever more powerful and intrusive state must take the lead to restoring the ability of people to stockpile savings.

How can we do this? There are several ways:

   * Create new forms of money that are easily stockpiled. This does not have to be gold and silver, but can be things like cell-phone minutes

   * Create new markets to trade without interference

   * Create new systems for storing forms of money safely

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Gold is best!
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MONEY: Deficit spending?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

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Speechless!

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