"... was busy manipulating my website. <grin>"
Bob,
In that unparallel universe i sometimes visit, (Note: Not one of those many parallel ones to this one where events are synchronized until the flap of a butterflys wings in Japan causes a ripple of events to conclude years later in the usa to knock off sync the mirror image and cause forever different these once upon a time equal universes to forever change in greater and greater ways. Note: I'm still inside this Note and would like to note a quite amazing parallel universe of ours that just broke away from ours recently about ten years ago. There was not a butterfly ripple effect there, but a change in the composition of dirt in a place where o49err called her new Home Gold Home location. Yup, unlike the path this universe taken, o49err there found only fools gold there. Now before you feel sorry for that o49err please redirect it to another parallel universe where the o49err dirt contained not the kind of here where its too small to see, but in a way to say her dirt did not "hold" gold because the gold there was like nuggets the size of nuts and only needed to hold a handfull of dirt under a tap of flowing water to wash away the dirt leaving pure gold chunks in her hands. Now why feel sorry for her is easy to explain since the Howe/GATA lawsuit put the usa into a corner of a hard place with a big rock boxing them in, sooooo yup the usa outlawed citizens holding physical gold and using the old laws all gold was required to be sold to usa at the price of $19.95 ounce.
Question: Are we still in that Note?
Note: Rather than i scroll up to try and figure that out lets ignore all above and start over.
ok? Great.
Bob,
Your "...read the entire Sennholz essay..."
Yes i agree "Lots of good stuff..."
But lets focus on the following.
... bullion banks ... borrowed large quantities of gold from various central banks ... risky and potentially ruinous if the price of gold should soar
ok, but Bob i also read the whole thing and did not need that pop pop fizz fizz AlkeSelver after but your comments i must say do not fit mine as to your conclusions which i guess if they did you would need a pop pop fizz fizz.
"The article does not indicate the actions of the bullion banks are either good or bad, but just points out the inherent risks of such transactions."
ok, to me the whole thing, as in a single message this man tried to deliver is contained in 2 parts, as part 1 - a stable and safe fiat currency needs a gold standard part 2 - the "world's" physical gold supply is now at risk
At risk in the sense that today's fiat money & credit supply of the usa and other nations that have created too too much paper money and make-up credit out of thin air without the safety & protection of a gold standard is now in 2001 ready to blow-up and crash & crush & destroy wealth held in the form of paper(s), and the only way back to health is to redo the money creation process using a gold standard, but where the central banks held that physical "quietly & safety" in their big vaults, its now "loaned/lent/borrowed" physically out and is not available for a return under todays paper gold trail and derivates rocket science difficult to understand and simply made into jewerly or hidden gold bars by the last buyer.
So now, it can not all/most be returned, but the price of gold will explode to a zillion dollars ounce and under good normal sane conditions a gold standard is a very difficult thing to implemint physicall & mentally for the politicans, under todays conditions probablly impossible.
To me this is the risk this man talks about, and it already is here, already happened, our fiat money is a house of cards a strong ill wind is blowing down Wall Street and Main Street, USA.
The risk is not having an economic collapse, as thats a given now, but that a way out to health is at risk, the physical gold needed by central banks to control fiat money is now at risk and getting risk'ie'er.
... bullion banks ... borrowed large quantities of gold from various central banks ... risky and potentially ruinous if the price of gold should soar
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doug |