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Originally posted by Rockdisjoint
reply to post by jibeho
So what? The great Bernanke has been wrong a few times. We've all been wrong once or twice in our lives.
Originally posted by rstregooski
Originally posted by Rockdisjoint
reply to post by jibeho
So what? The great Bernanke has been wrong a few times. We've all been wrong once or twice in our lives.
You do realize that he reads from a script, right? He's head of a private corporation that is in no way a part of the government. Go and compare his track record to Gerald Celente.
Originally posted by Rockdisjoint
reply to post by jibeho
So what? The great Bernanke has been wrong a few times. We've all been wrong once or twice in our lives.
Originally posted by jibeho
Originally posted by Rockdisjoint
reply to post by jibeho
So what? The great Bernanke has been wrong a few times. We've all been wrong once or twice in our lives.
You are clearly confused, contradicting yourself out of boredom and don't know anything about the topic at hand. Good luck in trolling your next thread for kicks and giggles. heee heee heee BTW... Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Is your refrigerator running? heee heee heee
Originally posted by majesticgent
reply to post by vkturbo
Sounds feasible. Who knows what will happen though? No one really...
I think that local scrips based off of bartering would be the way to go. I build a fence for 100 barter credits and I use that to buy 20 bushels of apples from someone else with an orchard. That system could be sustained without having to depend on fiat money.edit on 14-6-2011 by majesticgent because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by rstregooski
"Reprise of the financial crisis"?? I didn't know it had stopped..
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some.
The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers,", who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat.
As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery.
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.