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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 97.68+5.0%Nov 10 4:00 PM EST

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To: d:oug who wrote (91295)11/18/2002 7:08:28 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 116753
 
Doug, Not so fast, they need US $ or other hard currency and they will not stockpile gold if they can sell it to get more hard $$.

As for fiat currency. There is no need for any backing for a currency. It is in effect a barter enabling medium of exchange. All the US needs to do is only print enough to enable the workers to get payment for their labour.
Print too much = inflation. If it was gold backed and you print too much then you can run out of gold and a black market in gold occurs, as happened in India before the freed their gold controls.

Bill
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