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To: Tommaso who wrote (67)	2/16/2002 5:53:54 PM
From: Claude Cormier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 203

<My first reaction, however, is that if I were a central banker, I would immediately do my utmost to see that laws were passed to outlaw this as usurping the power of the government to coin money and regulate its value.> Well governments will do very little about it. The only way would be to ban gold. I suspect that many high ranking officials all over the world have their own little hoarding of gold, cause they know the faith of fiat currencies. <Incidentally, do you know of a single case of an American being prosecuted for owning gold abroad, after that was made illegal under the Kennedy administration? > I don't know that it is illegal to own gold abroad.. but it is certainly illegal to prosecute for it-:)