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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6380)	6/15/1999 5:00:00 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81972

Ron, in reading all these back and forth posts I started to realize that some of what you have been saying sounds like "this is fact, the way it is" and the other view sounds like "this is the way it is because this is the way it should be". As I looked closer I started to see that events that happened and have recently happened are not the items being argued as much as the events that not only preceded them, but the purpose or reason to do something long ago. I feel quite foolish now, as it has taken me this long to scope out whats happening on this thread, and I might even become more so if I'am wrong. But this is the only way I know how to learn, to nod my head "yes" and say I understand or say I agree or not, when I am clueless results in me remaining clueless and others will regard me as a dummy. I'll rather be looked at as stupid than a dummy if the former gives me a chance to learn. <<the gold market was subsidized and distorted by the gold standard>> side 1 = gold standard is always needed to insure sound paper money side 2 = above not true, and if tried, price of gold artifically controlled side 1 sees a misuse of paper money, and the system of paper money is in serious trouble because it was taken off gold standard, and those who put paper money in trouble want to get out of trouble by doing more of the same, but need the gold standard concept destroyed first. So, this is the manipulation of the price of gold. side 2 says let nature correct itself from unnatural controls, like the gold standard control. Doug