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What Gives Value to a Currency?
What Gives Value to a Currency? QUESTION: Hello Martin, can you explain to me how a currency would sustain value for international trade if a country, like Canada (where I live), did what you suggested and stopped issuing debt and just printed money to level that was 5% – 10% of national GDP? would it depend […]
Understanding the Persecution of John Law
Understanding the Persecution of John Law COMMENT: Hi Mr. Armstrong…..this is a surprising (to me) summary, on John Law. Every piece I ever read about him, cast him as a complete scoundrel, yet you obviously write with admiration. Just another example of history depending on someone’s perspective. You never cease to surprise. And that’s good. HS […]
US Dollar’s Status as Dominant “Global Reserve Currency” Drops to 25-Year Low
US Dollar’s Status as Dominant “Global Reserve Currency” Drops to 25-Year Low Central banks getting nervous about the Fed’s drunken Money Printing and the US Government’s gigantic debt? But still leery of the Chinese renminbi. The global share of US-dollar-denominated exchange reserves dropped to 59.0% in the fourth quarter, according to the IMF’s COFER data […]
Do You Believe in Magic?
Do You Believe in Magic? The people pretending to run the world’s financial affairs do. The more layers of abstract game-playing they add to the existing armatures of unreality they’ve already constructed, the more certain it becomes that they will blow up all the support systems of a sunsetting hyper-tech economy that now has no […]
Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want
Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they “just don’t understand economics” are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? If you’ve never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it […]
Oil and Debt: Why Our Financial System Is Unsustainable
Oil and Debt: Why Our Financial System Is Unsustainable How much energy, water and food will the “money” created out of thin air in the future buy? Finance is often cloaked in arcane terminology and math, but the one dynamic that governs the future is actually very simple. Here it is: all debt is borrowed against […]
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux
Heal the Planet for Profit – Redux Giorgione The Tempest 1508“Mankind’s only chance to not destroy its planet lies in diverging from all other species in that not all energy available to it, is used up as fast as possible. But that’s a big challenge. It would, speaking from a purely philosophical angle, truly separate us from […]
Federal Reserve & Fake Conspiracies
Federal Reserve & Fake Conspiracies QUESTION: I found your history of the Federal Reserve very insightful which nobody else has put together. Can you explain your comment that the ECB could go bankrupt but not the Fed? Thank you very much. HB ANSWER: Here is a full set of $1 bills with each issued by its respective […]
A World that Operates by Financial Cheating and Unsound Money Is Doomed
A World that Operates by Financial Cheating and Unsound Money Is Doomed It’s all phony money but there’s no revolt yet. Value for ValueMy friend Hugo Salinas Price wrote a short post that I agree with. Please consider A World that Operates by Cheating Is Doomed In ages past, gold and silver provided humanity with a […]
Opinion v Fact
Opinion v Fact COMMENT: Marty, Each day I read reports from so called reputable people expressing what they think might happen given the backdrop today. It is laughable. Most do this based on superficial analysis or cursory comparisons with things that appear to line up, appear to rhythm, to paraphrase M Twain. What a joke. I say […]
Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local
Transitioning Our Money to Invest Local People often ask, “So what do Transition Town groups do?” One answer to that question would be, “We take good ideas, bring them home, and make them real.” That’s what Pat Thompson and Sherm Eagles did when they attended Jay Tompt’s REconomy workshop at the Transition US National Gathering […]
Why We Need a Free Market in Money
WHY WE NEED A FREE MARKET IN MONEY What is fiat money and what does it do? This is essential to understand since today’s worldwide unbacked paper, or “fiat,” money regime is an economically and socially destructive scheme—with far-reaching and seriously harmful consequences. There is an answer, though, and this lies in ending the money production monopoly of […]
“Monetizing Privacy”: The Fed Fans Out, Touting the “Digital Dollar.” This Time, How Consumers Would Benefit
“Monetizing Privacy”: The Fed Fans Out, Touting the “Digital Dollar.” This Time, How Consumers Would Benefit But the problemita of pulling the rug out from under the entire banking system still needs to be addressed. “As cash use continues to decline, the question naturally arises as to whether central banks should provide a digital alternative […]
