{"id":1228,"date":"2014-11-07T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2014-11-07T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T22:07:39","slug":"greenspans-stunning-admission-gold-is-currency-no-fiat-currency-including-the-dollar-can-match-it-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Greenspan&#8217;s Stunning Admission: &#8220;Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It&#8221; | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-11-07\/greenspans-stunning-admission-gold-currency-no-fiat-currency-including-dollar-can-ma'>Greenspan&#039;s Stunning Admission: &quot;Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It&quot; | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the Council of Foreign Relations, where ex-Fed-Chief Alan Greenspan spoke last week, decided the following discussion should be left out of the official transcript. We can perhaps understand why&#8230; as Gillian Tett concludes, &#8220;comments like that will be turning you into a rock star amongst the gold bug community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenspan (Uncut):<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on link to view video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TETT: Do you think that gold is currently a good investment?<\/p>\n<p>GREENSPAN: Yes&#8230; Remember what we&#8217;re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can macth it.<\/p>\n<p>Which is missing from the official CFR transcript&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenspan&#039;s Stunning Admission: &quot;Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It&quot; | Zero Hedge. For some reason, the Council of Foreign Relations, where ex-Fed-Chief Alan Greenspan spoke last week, decided the following discussion should be left out of the official transcript. We can perhaps understand why&#8230; as Gillian Tett concludes, &#8220;comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[952,953,951,374],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-alan-greenspan","tag-council-on-foreign-relations","tag-currency","tag-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}