{"id":25414,"date":"2017-09-09T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25414"},"modified":"2017-09-09T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T13:32:32","slug":"the-long-term-cycle-of-monetary-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25414","title":{"rendered":"The Long-term Cycle of Monetary Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/markets-by-sector\/precious-metals\/gold\/the-long-term-cycle-of-monetary-crisis\/\">The Long-term Cycle of Monetary Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HENRY-III-1257-Gold-Penny.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67918\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HENRY-III-1257-Gold-Penny.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HENRY-III-1257-Gold-Penny.jpg 396w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HENRY-III-1257-Gold-Penny-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HENRY-III-1257-Gold-Penny-165x110.jpg 165w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/HENRY-III-1257-Gold-Penny-180x120.jpg 180w\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong> Mr. Armstrong, I have been following you for all my adult life and that has exceeded 20 years by now and am shocked to say, I found your article on how things evolve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/markets-by-sector\/energy\/gold-oil-dollar\/\"><strong>GOLD-Oil-Dollar<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0I must say this is a eye-opening evolution you are talking about. Has this always been the case with things changing coming into play and then vanishing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong> Absolutely. I have written about how gold vanished from use with the Dark Age following the fall of Rome. Gold\u00a0did not reappear in coinage for nearly 600 years. The first gold coin to reappear in Britain came during the 13th century issued by Henry III.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mycaene-Gold-cup-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44361 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mycaene-Gold-cup-1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mycaene-Gold-cup-1.jpg 266w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mycaene-Gold-cup-1-180x128.jpg 180w\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Gold Cups of Mycenae<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The same thing took place with the Dark Age in Greece. This is when the Mycenae ruled known as the Heroic Period of which Homer wrote. Scholars thought it was just fiction written by Homer until the ancient city of Troy was discovered.\u00a0<b>Troy<\/b>\u00a0<strong>VIIa<\/strong>appears to have been\u00a0<b>destroyed<\/b>\u00a0by war around 1184 BC. However, scholars did not believe the writings of Homer because\u00a0Homer was born sometime between the\u00a012th\u00a0and 8th centuries\u00a0BC.\u00a0He remains famous for his work <strong>The Iliad and The Odyssey<\/strong>. So once again there is about 600 years separating the Heroic Age and the Hellenistic Age.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55503\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD-1024x1003.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD-1024x1003.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD-768x752.jpg 768w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD-180x176.jpg 180w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD-600x588.jpg 600w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Japanese-Debasement-760-958AD.jpg 1157w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1003\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we turn to Japan, here too we find that the emperor abused his power to issue money and once again we find money vanish for about 600 years. Each new emperor devalued all previously issued coinage to 10% of his new coinage. People simply refused to accept coins because they were devalued and were no a store of value.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44074 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Petro-dollar-6.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Petro-dollar-6.jpg 484w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Petro-dollar-6-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Petro-dollar-6-127x180.jpg 127w, https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Petro-dollar-6-423x600.jpg 423w\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"397\" \/><\/strong>Therefore, throughout economic history we always have\u00a0long-term structural reform. Do not expect either gold or oil to always be a valuable component.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long-term Cycle of Monetary Crisis QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, I have been following you for all my adult life and that has exceeded 20 years by now and am shocked to say, I found your article on how things evolve GOLD-Oil-Dollar. \u00a0I must say this is a eye-opening evolution you are talking about. 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