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Title: IS GOLD MONEY?
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Published: Jul 14, 2011
Author: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2011-07-14 13:07:59 by socalv8
Keywords: Paul, Ben, Good Question
Views: 75501
Comments: 131

Big Ben's hesitation was telling.

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#48. To: socalv8 (#40)

Any chance of gold and silver going in different directions?

Think 16 to one, the tried and true ratio. Gold is way out of whack right now, a bubble that is ready to burst so the sharks can reap their profits just like they did in late 2007.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-15   13:01:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: Capitalist Eric (#47)
(Edited)

No, gold is not money but a commodity. Economics 101

Clearly, you failed your econ class.

Yet it's actually sold as a commodity. Go figure.

And if I buy a 20 dollar gold piece for 1500+, I can only legally tender it for 20 dollars.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-15   13:02:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: Godwinson (#41)

So was silver and iron bars and wampum and on some islands in the Pacific islands - large carved boulders.

All but Silver fail one or more of the tests of what makes really good money: It's A.) Durable, B.) Easily Divisible, C.) Relatively Scarce, D.) Portable. This is why wampum, iron bars, and large carved boulders did not evolve as money in most parts of the world. Gold did. So did Silver.


Any fourth grade history student knows socialism has failed in every country, at every time in history -- Vladimir Putin

jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-15   14:57:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: Godwinson (#30)

The gold standard failed.

LOL!! That is the stupidest thing you have said so far. Gold has been money for 1000s of years. Appears you have been sucked into the delusional fiat money scam that has transformed a lot of stupid fools into poor stupid fools. No one with a modicum of intellect and their wits about them could deny the historical facts of the matter.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-15   17:19:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: mininggold, socalv8 (#48)

socalv8: Any chance of gold and silver going in different directions?
ming: Think 16 to one, the tried and true ratio. Gold is way out of whack right now, a bubble that is ready to burst so the sharks can reap their profits just like they did in late 2007.

LMAO.

You're an idiot.

Your statement as to the gold-silver ratio, as usual, is based on bad information...... And HERE'S WHY...

As to your statement that gold is "a bubble that is ready to burst," then I suggest you put your money where your FAT mouth is at, and short some gold ETFs.

Your statements- based on nothing but your delusions, fed by MSM propagandists, make me laugh.

It used to be the leftists that had bumper-stickers that said things like "Question Authority.' Today they follow Orwells' mottos:

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.

They blindly LOVE Big Brother. They believe competition, pride & profiting from ones labor, are evil things to be banished.

Stephen King once observed, "The beauty of religion mania is that it has the power to explain everything... [and] …logic can be happily tossed out the window.

This describes socialists. They will ignore logic and "common sense." They will ignore REALITY.

Because THEY are religious zealots...

Their God... is the STATE.

Capitalist Eric  posted on  2011-07-15   18:40:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: eskimo (#51)

Gold has been money for 1000s of years.

So what? They stopped using it just like they stopped using human sacrifice to make it rain.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   0:45:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Godwinson (#53)

LOL! Gold and silver are still money to rational people. You go ahead and stack your paper; you can always use it to wipe.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   3:34:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: eskimo (#54)

You go ahead and stack your paper; you can always use it to wipe.

Money is not made out of actual paper but it is clear you h ave no idea how money works.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   9:26:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Godwinson (#55)

Clearly, I know much better than you that money must be a good "store of value".

You go ahead and stack your paper; you can always use it to wipe.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   11:19:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: Capitalist Eric (#52)

LMAO.

You're an idiot.

Your statement as to the gold-silver ratio, as usual, is based on bad information...... And HERE'S WHY...

As to your statement that gold is "a bubble that is ready to burst," then I suggest you put your money where your FAT mouth is at, and short some gold ETFs.

Your statements- based on nothing but your delusions, fed by MSM propagandists, make me laugh.

I don't play markets where others make undecipherable rules not in my favor.

But the big question here is: If I'm wrong, why would YOU care?

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   11:40:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: eskimo (#56)

Clearly, I know much better than you that money must be a good "store of value".

You go ahead and stack your paper; you can always use it to wipe.

Lugging around all that gold must be tiring.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   11:41:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: mininggold (#58)

Lugging around all that gold must be tiring.

It's what makes him cranky.

Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-16   11:50:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#60. To: mininggold (#58)

Lugging around all that gold must be tiring.

It's probably all in his teeth.

Skip Intro  posted on  2011-07-16   11:51:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#61. To: Skip Intro (#60) (Edited)

It's probably all in his teeth.

Another effect of mercury poisoning, besides the goofy reasoning. He needs to check out his local perma melt. Alaska has some of the most toxic water in the world.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   11:55:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: mininggold (#58)

Lugging around all that gold must be tiring.

LOL! 1600 paper dollars is heavier than an ounce of gold.

There you go, something just as stupid as you wrote.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   12:11:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: eskimo (#62)

LOL! 1600 paper dollars is heavier than an ounce of gold.

There you go, something just as stupid as you wrote.

They don't use 100 dollar bills in your state?

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   12:15:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#64. To: mininggold, Skip Intro (#61)

Alaska has some of the most toxic water in the world.

LOL!! When you have no logical argument you invent stupid, childish innuendo to spit at others. I quess that is what makes you slugs so entertaining, like a small child telling absurd knock-knock jokes.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   12:18:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#65. To: mininggold (#63)

They don't use 100 dollar bills in your state?

LOL!! Hell, we paper the the walls whith them.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   12:21:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#66. To: eskimo (#64)

LOL!! When you have no logical argument you invent stupid, childish innuendo to spit at others. I quess that is what makes you slugs so entertaining, like a small child telling absurd knock-knock jokes.

By all means drink up.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   12:22:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#67. To: eskimo (#65)

LOL!! Hell, we paper the the walls whith them.

Does the State of Alaska pay you your yearly stipend in gold bullion or a check from the state's coffers?

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   12:25:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#68. To: mininggold (#67)

LOL!! I get my gold from the same creek I get my water. You really are not too bright, so just ask and I will try to help you fix that.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   12:35:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: eskimo (#68)

LOL!! I get my gold from the same creek I get my water. You really are not too bright, so just ask and I will try to help you fix that.

And I bet you don't realize that mercury is soluble in water, but hell you probably burn it off directly and take deep breaths as you are doing it. Another side effect is silly laughter and delusional thinking as expressed by your indicating that your statement of papering walls with 100 dollars bills actually makes sense to you.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   12:42:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#70. To: mininggold, eskimo, lucysmom (#69)

I wonder how grocery stores will give change on gold? In the olden days people used to file down the coins and cheat people.

If paper is backed by gold is the model - for this size economy a dollar bill would be worth maybe an atom of gold.....

These people sound like Khmer Rouge - They want to return to some "Year Zero" formula.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   12:57:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#71. To: mininggold (#69)

LOL!! You really only know enough to be childishly paranoid. The water soluable percentage of naturally occuring metals is not what you imagine or no water would be safe to drink.

The rest of your childish innuendo must just be a manifestation of your mental malady.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   13:04:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: Godwinson (#70) (Edited)

I wonder how grocery stores will give change on gold?

You really aren't too bright are you?

If the government got out of the way, what would certainly evolve is a system of digital currencies (probably attached to you cell phone) that was backed by gold or silver or some other scare commodity.

Gold is divisible down to one grain.

The American dollar was originally based on the Spanish dollar and was originally fixed at 371.25 grains of silver.


I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years -- Lyndon Johnson

jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-16   13:06:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#73. To: Godwinson (#70)

wonder how grocery stores will give change on gold? In the olden days people used to file down the coins and cheat people.

If paper is backed by gold is the model - for this size economy a dollar bill would be worth maybe an atom of gold.....

These people sound like Khmer Rouge - They want to return to some "Year Zero" formula.

The old timers used to carry vials of gold dust around, and pulled a pinch for this or that which was weighed since everyone carried with them a small scale. But don't you dare sneeze during the transaction or there goes a month's hard work. The people who really made out in those days were the floor sweepers.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   13:06:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#74. To: eskimo (#71)

LOL!! You really only know enough to be childishly paranoid. The water soluable percentage of naturally occuring metals is not what you imagine or no water would be safe to drink.

The rest of your childish innuendo must just be a manifestation of your mental malady.

Which means you haven't tested it.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-16   13:08:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#75. To: jwpegler, mininggold (#72)

If the government got out of the way, what would certainly evolve is a system of digital currencies

Yea, because that's what evolved in Somalia without a govt there.

You guys make up fantasy as go along?

Hey before the govt printed money every store or bank in America printed its own money.

You guys really do want us to go back to the 1800s! LOL!

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   13:16:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#76. To: Godwinson (#70)

If paper is backed by gold is the model - for this size economy a dollar bill would be worth maybe an atom of gold.....

Wow! You have really been sucked into the the paper scam. The "economy" has become unsustainable even with limitless printing of paper funny money. The relation of real money to funny money is about to change more drastically than it already has.

But, you go ahead and stack your paper; you can always use it to wipe.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   13:19:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#77. To: mininggold (#74)

Which means you haven't tested it.

Oh, but I have, for more than half a century. Anything else I can help you with?

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   13:23:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#78. To: eskimo, mininggold (#76)

The "economy" has become unsustainable even with limitless printing of paper funny money.

I guess I missed all those people walking around with wheel barrows full of worthless dollars to buy milk.......

Let me know when your end time fantasy happens.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   13:23:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#79. To: eskimo, mininggold (#77)

Which means you haven't tested it. Oh, but I have, for more than half a century.

Yukon likes sticking things in his mouth,,,,,

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   13:24:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#80. To: Godwinson (#79)

Yukon likes sticking things in his mouth,,,,,

LOL!! I have no idea what that nonsense means but it sounds as though you have become frustrated with yourself because you argue stupidly and you are now resorting to an emotional outburst of disgusting and childish innuendo.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   13:38:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#81. To: Godwinson (#75)

Hey before the govt printed money every store or bank in America printed its own money.

There were 30,000 different currencies and denominations floating around - imagine the opportunities for counterfeiters.

Von Mises associates any Government involvement in markets as "Socialism" , to mislead people into thinking Government is the enemy , when infact empire is the enemy and empire is Privatized.

lucysmom  posted on  2011-07-16   17:39:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#82. To: Godwinson, badeye, capitalist eric (#75)

Somalia

The people in Somalia didn't invent the Cotton gin, Steam Engine, Telegraph, Light Bulb, Telephone, Internal Combustion engine, the Automobile, the Airplane, Assembly line, Radio, Television, the Vacuum Tube, transistor, Micro-processor, penicillin, antibiotics, and too many other things to list here.

America and the rest of the western world invented these things. We invented most of them when government was largely irrelevant in our lives.

The very idea that you would equate western free markets with tribal backwaters demonstrates that you are not worth wasting time on.

So F-off, bozo.


I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years -- Lyndon Johnson

jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-16   18:16:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#83. To: jwpegler (#82) (Edited)

America and the rest of the western world invented these things. We invented most of them when government was largely irrelevant in our lives.

The govts of the USA and abroad invested heavily in the development of most if not all these inventions including the invention of the computer and internet.

"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.

Godwinson  posted on  2011-07-16   18:32:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#84. To: Godwinson (#83) (Edited)

The govts of the USA and abroad invested heavily in the development of most if not all these inventions

Complete and utter nonsense.

Show your sources on how government investment created the Automobile, Airplane, Assembly Line, Light Bulb, Telephone, etc.

You can't because it isn't true.


I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years -- Lyndon Johnson

jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-16   18:39:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#85. To: mininggold (#48)

Gold is way out of whack right now,

Out of whack, the new norm or the lowest it will ever be again...
Going to be interesting to watch, and fun since I'm not invested in it. Are you?

socalv8  posted on  2011-07-16   18:43:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#86. To: jwpegler (#82)

America and the rest of the western world invented these things.

That is exactly what scares the crap out of the psychotic, money mongering, human trash with delusions of godhood. They witnessed freedom loving Americans come together like no society in the history of this planet and project a will and an industrial might during WWII that has never been equaled. This human tripe has no other choice except to bring down America before they are destroyed by the decendents of those freedom loving Americans. They are scared stupid and that is certainly evident given the present day events.

eskimo  posted on  2011-07-16   18:44:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#87. To: socalv8 (#85) (Edited)

Out of whack, the new norm or the lowest it will ever be again...

If the Fed pursues a "Quantitative Easing" #3, we'll see gold at $2,500 an ounce.

We will also see mass hysteria on left, as they channel the dead ghost of FDR to bash "speculators" to try and shift blame from government boobs and tyrants to the market.

Fortunately, the government no longer has monopoly control of the media. So, the outcome is going to be very different than it was in the 1930s. Very different.


I'll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years -- Lyndon Johnson

jwpegler  posted on  2011-07-16   19:03:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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