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reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 09:11 AM by redhatty
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What difference does it make whether there is any gold in Fort Knox? The US Dollar went off the Gold Standard completely in 1971.


reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 09:17 AM by Grayelf2009
Originally posted by redhatty
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What difference does it make whether there is any gold in Fort Knox? The US Dollar went off the Gold Standard completely in 1971.
Thats right,Very good point. To much info latley trying to sort it all out.
So who excatally owns that gold ? America ? Wasen't it for backing the dollar ? Someone enlighten me please.


reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 09:23 AM by redhatty
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Central Banks around the world & the IMF now hold the majority of gold reserves

en.wikipedia.org...

Gold is now traded like any other commodity, it is not used to back many currencies anymore, hence the term, "Fiat Money"



reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 02:22 PM by rangersdad
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I hope this leads to an audit of the Federal Reserve now. Why should they be immune from such a thing??? (BTW, I mean a complete audit, not just what the court agreed to here)


reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 03:46 PM by David9176
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Cripes man...you won't believe what I just watched Cavuto say on Fox News. He was championing Bernanke and saying...well the Bush administration must not have been that bad if Obama is keeping him and a few others when Bush was in office.

The guy has funneled billions upon billions of dollars to banks and corporations...and Freakin Cavuto has the GD nerve to put Bernanke on a pedestal.

Yeah Cavuto...i'm glad stocks are higher...even though millions of americans are out of work and struggling to make ends meet.

Wow does this PISS ME OFF!!!!


reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 04:43 PM by TheLoony
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David, that's what you get for watching that tripe. It's bound to piss anyone off that has a few working brain cells.

I do hope something comes from this but I am wary. This whole swine-flu/vaccine crap is coming down and I fear we may not even get to the point of trying to audit the illegal fed because we will all be dead from the damned vaccine.

I still have hope but it's waning. Hearing the news that they want to keep Bernanke around, even though there may be worse choices, it still leaves me with no faith in the U.S. government. None at all.


reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 09:23 PM by mrpotatohead
Here's food for thought. The more complicated the issues get, the easier they are to understand. very few people without an acccounting degree can even comprehend what the FED does everyday. It's complicated for a reason. The simple part is that as a nation, we are way past broke. The idiots running the country act like someone else is to balme. Both sides have had a chance to improve things. They haven't.

For the vast majority of legislators, they are owned by the PTB. That's another simple concept that's easy to understand. if they were'nt owned by the elite, things would change for the better.

It would have been simplier to give each taxpaying family $100,000 each, and let them pay off what they owe, and go about their business. But the FED choses to give it to the people that steal for a living, and they're good at it.

Most of the people that are running the FED in one capacity or another, used to work for the people they're giving our money to now. isn't America great--what a system. The government occasionally allows us to receive a little tax break in return for raping us the reat of the year. Then they raise taxes on everyone, and get back many times what they gave us to begin with. Then , they tell us it's going to cost more to have what we already have, and we should be happy about it, and we need to let them take our money even faster from us. Then---each side balmes the other when they can't get a consensus.

The only thing they can agree on, is to take more and give less, and give themselves a raise when they feel like they deserve it. Congress has power over the FED, yet those chicken sh_t congressman won't do anything to stop the movement to endless debt. it kind of answers who is in charge doesn't it??

Just remember this concept, and things will be much easier to figure out, both sides play for the same team, and answer to the same puppet master. There are different methods to distract the public, but the outcome is always the same. Why do you think there is never any real change? The ruling elite get change when they are ready for change.

The Obama team are doing exactly what they are told to do, nothing more, nothing less. I have never seen any administration say things one day, and change what they said the next day, more than this one. The are masters of doublespeak.

Remember, the President is owned by the FED, and the FED does what the puppetmasters tell them to. it's all part of the plan, and we have a front row seat at a historical time in history to watch the downfall of a great nation, happen before our eyes. Has anyone over 50 ever seen things change so fast?? The agenda will become clearer each day. All it takes is a little logic. But for the logically impaired, just be patient, you'll learn how you're getting screwed soon enough. Even the "O" lovers will one day utter a collective "WTF"


reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 10:00 PM by Phenomium
This sounds like a sweet deal until you realize that every single thing the government does is a double edged sword. There is a good side and a bad side sometimes...but more often than not.....there is just two bad sides...that's how everything gets passed, no matter what you do, you will get screwed. In this case here, we were warned by Ben Bernanke (Fed Chairman) back in June of this year, that auditing the FED would result in major financial disruptions for our already weakened financial state and would be destructive to the survival of the American dollar. It was a threat!....If we were to audit the FED ask for transparency and get it....they would collapse our financial system worse than any previous depression. I will have to say, in this case........it's not as good as you may think, we have all just sealed our fates...most likely before the end of this year, the dollar will be broken.They want to break the American dollar anyway (have for the longest time) because they want to install a New Worl Order currency. Some say this is the Amero but who knows what they will call it now, the Amero just seems a bit obvious at this point. If they named it the Amero, that would most likely help the case of "the people" because this would be an ostensible prophecy that came true ....even by getting the very name of the currency correct and people may start listening to conspiracy theorists then....so I doubt it will be called the Amero...but then,....these guys are arrogant too and love to rub our noses in our own sh*t and reaffirm to us that we can't do jack to them despite what we now. But whatever the reason,.....this is gonna hurt. These guys don't bluff when they own the stuff.


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reply posted on 25-8-2009 @ 11:54 PM by RoofMonkey
FYI... in my graph earlier, for some reason, ATS chops it off at the end of Greenspan's tenure. "View Image" and you will see the whole graph.

The "Per Worker" are the number of workers that are in the "Civilian Labor Force" as per the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) as of the month that the data represents. The credit debt data is straight from the Fed.

If you believe in Kondratiev cycles (waves) you will note that this whole bag of worms started at the peak of cycle 5, the Information Technology wave beginning in 1971.

Nikolai Kondratiev was a Russian economist who theorized that Western capitalist economies have long term (50 to 60 years) cycles of boom followed by depression. The modern version lists them as 45 to 60 years in length. With the advent of a new breakthrough technology, the prosperity from that will peak at about 11 to 15 years, then there will be rescession, followed by depresion, then recovery. At the onset of the next breakthrough technology, the process repeats itself.

At the bottom of the depression areas of the waves... there has been a major war either started by or related to the economy.

Wave one - 1771 Industrial revolution - War of 1812 at the depression side.

Wave two - 1829 Steam and Railways - American Civil war at the depression side.

Wave three - 1875 Steel, Electricity, Heavy Engineering - WW I at the depression side.

Wave four - 1908 Oil, Auto, Mass Production - WW II at the depression side.

Wave five 1971 - Info Systems - No real economic based war yet... Persian Gulf 1 and 2 and Afganistan aren't really caused by a lot of economic turmoil.. but the jury is still out.

So.... somewhere between 1983 to 1988 we should have peaked and started the slow grind into recession/depression. Greenspan came to power in 1987, and through policy, created the Nasdaq bubble to pump money through the systems. IT businesses took on heavy debt and expanded exponentially. Everybody was investing in everything. The DOW peaked around 11722.98 on 14 Jan 2000... and everything fell apart. >>pop<<.

The recession forces started catching up, 9/11 happened the next year, and in 2002, that NYT article states that Greenspan "needs to create a housing bubble" to mask the Nasdaq bubble. The DOW peaks at 14093.08 on 12 Oct 2007.. and everything falls apart in the last part of 2008.

Here we sit. Crooks at the helm, mired in personal debt. "Drive America" pushed more people into debt... as did "Cash for Clunkers".. enticing people to take on more and more debt. Few who took that offer have realized that they paid tax on the full price of the vehicle, and will have to pay tax on the $4500 "voucher" that was paid by the US Government. (effectively taxing you twice.. the State got the first cut and the Fed gets the second one come April 15th)

On a bright side... if Kondratiev was right the new technology should be showing up in the 2016 to 2034 range... provided we remain capitalist economy.


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