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To: long-gone who wrote (85639)5/21/2002 11:35:00 PM
From: long-gone  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116816
 
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Even so, this Borrower (and those who follow him in ownership of the property) must earn and TAKE OUT OF CIRCULATION $255,931, almost $200,000 MORE than he put IN CIRCULATION when he borrowed the origina1 $60,000. (By the way, it is this interest which cheats all families out of nicer homes. It is not that they can't afford them; it is because the Banker's usury forces them to pay for 4 homes to get one!)

Every new loan puts the same process in operation. Each borrower adds a small sum to the total money supply when he borrows, but the payments on the loan (because of interest) then deduct a much LARGER sum from the total money supply.

There is therefore no way all debtors can pay off the money-lenders. As they pay the principal and interest, the money in circulation disappears. All they can do is struggle against each other, borrowing more and more from the money-lenders each generation. The money-lenders (Bankers), who produce nothing of value, slowly, then more rapidly, gain a death grip on the land, buildings, and present and future earnings of the whole working population. Proverbs 22:7 has come to pass in America. The borrowers have become the servants of the lenders. No wonder God Almighty forbids interest on loans.

Small Loans Do the Same Thing

If you haven't quite grasped the impact of the above, let us consider a small auto loan for 3 years at 18% interest. Step 1: Citizen borrows $5,000 and pays it into circulation (it goes to the dealer, factory, miner, etc.) and signs a note agreeing to pay the Banker $6,500. Step 2: Citizen pays $180 per month of his earnings to the Banker. In 3 years he will take OUT of circulation $1,500 more than he put IN circulation.

Every loan of Banker "created" money (credit) causes the same thing to happen. Since this has happened millions of times since 1913 (and continues today), you can see why America has gone from a prosperous, debt-free nation to a debt-ridden nation where practically every home, farm and business is paying usury-tribute to some Banker. The usury-tribute to the Bankers on personal, local, State and Federal debt totals more than the combined earnings of 25% of the working people. Soon it will be 50% and continue up.

This is Why Bankers Prosper in Good Times or Bad

In the millions of transactions made each year like those above, little actual currency changes hands, nor is it necessary that it do so. 95% of all "cash" transactions in the U.S. are by check, so the Banker is perfectly safe in "creating" that so-called "loan" by writing the check or deposit slip, not against actual money, but AGAINST YOUR PROMISE TO PAY IT BACK! The cost to him is paper, ink and a few dollars in salaries and office costs for each transaction. It is "check-kiting" on an enormous scale. The profits increase rapidly, year after year, as shown below.


The Cost To You? Eventually, Everything!

In 1910 the U.S. Federal debt was only $1 billion, or $12.40 per citizen. State and local debts were practically non-existent.

By 1920, after only 6 years of Federal Reserve shenanigans, the Federal debt had jumped to $24 billion, or $228 per person.

In 1960 the Federal debt reached $284 billion, or $1,575 per citizen and State and local debts were mushrooming.

By 1981 the Federal debt passed $1 trillion and was growing exponentially as the Banker's tripled the interest rates. State and local debts are now MORE than the Federal, and with business and personal debts totalled over $6 trillion, 3 times the value of all land and buildings in America.

lf we signed over to the money-lenders all of America we would still owe them 2 more Americas (plus their usury, of course!)

However, they are too cunning to take title to everything. They will instead leave you with some "illusion of ownership" so you and your children will continue to work and pay the Bankers more of your earnings in ever-increasiag debts. The "establishment" has captured our people with their ungodly system of usury and debt as certainly as if they had marched in with a uniformed army.

For The Gamblers Among My Readers

To grasp the truth that periodic withdrawal of money through interest payments will inexorably transfer all wealth in the nation to the receiver of interest, imagine yourself in a poker or dice game where everyone must buy the chips (the medium of exchange) from a "banker" who does not risk chips in the game, but watches the table and every hour reaches in and takes 10% to 15% of all the chips on the table. As the game goes on, the amount of chips in the possession of each player will go up and down with his "luck." However, the TOTAL number of chips available to play the game (carry on trade and business) will decrease rapidly.

The game will get low on chips, and some will run out. If they want to continue to play, they must buy or borrow them from the "banker." The "banker" will sell (lend) them ONLY if the player signs a "mortgage" agreeing to give the "banker" some real property (car, hnme, farm, business, etc.) if he cannot make periodic payments to pay back all of the chips plus some EXTRA ones (interest). The payments must be made on time, whether he wins (makes a profit) or not.

It is easy to see that no matter how skillfully they play, eventually the "banker" will end up with all of his original chips back, and except for the very best players, the rest, if they stay in long enough, will lose to the "banker" their homes, their farms, their businesses, perhaps even their cars, watches, rings, and the shirts off their backs!

Our real-life situation is MUCH WORSE than any poker game. In a poker game none is forced to go into debt, and anyone can quit at any time and keep whatever he still has. But in real life, even if we borrow little ourselves from the Bankers, the local, State, and Federal governments borrow billions in our name, squander it, then confiscate our earnings from us and pay it back to the Bankers with interest. We are forced to play the game, and none can leave except by death. We pay as long as we live, and our children pay after we die. If we cannot pay, the same government sends the police to take our property and give it to the Bankers. The Bankers risk nothing in the game; they just collect their percentage and "win it all." In Las Vegas and at other gambling centers, all games are "rigged" to pay the owner a percentage, and they rake in millions. The Federal Reserve Bankers' "game" is also rigged, and it pays off in billions!

In recent years Bankers added real "cards" to their game. "Credit" cards are promoted as a convenience and a great boon to trade. Actually, they are ingenious devices by which Bankers collect 2% to 5% of every retail sale from the seller and 18% interest from buyers. A real "stacked" deck!

Yes, It's Political, Too

Democrat, Republican, and Independent voters who have wondered why politicians always spend more tax money than they take in should now see the reason. When they begin to study our "debt-money" system, they soon realize that these politicians are not the agents of the people but are the agents of the Bankers, for whom they plan ways to place the people further in debt. It takes only a little imagination to see that if Congress had been "creating," and spending or issuing into circulation the necessary increase in the money supply, THERE WOULD BE NO NATIONAL DEBT, and the over $4 Trillion of other debts would be practically non-existent. Since there would be no ORIGINAL cost of money except printing, and no CONTINUING costs such as interest, Federal taxes would be almost nil. Money, once in circulation, would remain there and go on serving its purpose as a medium of exchange for generation after generation and century after century, just as coins do now, with NO payments to the Bankers whatever!

Mounting Debts and Wars

But instead of peace and debt-free prosperity, we have ever-mounting debt and periodic wars. We as a people are now ruled by a system of Banker-owned Mammon that has usurped the mantle of government, disguised itself as our legitimate government, and set about to pauperize and control our people. It is now a centralized, all-powerful political apparatus whose main purposes are promoting war, spending the peoples' money, and propagandizing to perpetuate itself in power. Our two large political parties have become its servants. the various departments of government its spending agencies, and the Internal Revenue its collection agency.

Unknown to the people, it operates in close cooperation with similar apparatuses in other nations, which are also disguised as "governments." Some, we are told, are friends. Some, we are told, are enemies. "Enemies" are built up through international manipulations and used to frighten the American people into going billions of dollars more into debt to the Bankers for "military preparedness," "foreign aid to stop communism," "minority rights," etc. Citizens, deliberately confused by brainwashing propaganda, watch helplessly while our politicians give our food, goods, and money to Banker-controlled alien governments under the guise of "better relations" and "easing tensions." Our Banker-controlled government takes our finest and bravest sons and sends them into foreign wars with obsolete equipment and inadequate training, where tens of thousands are murdered, and hundreds of thousands are crippled. Other thousands are morally corrupted, addicted to drugs, and infected with venereal and other diseases, which they bring back to the United States. When the "war" is over, we have gained nothing, but we are scores of billions of dollars more in debt to the Bankers, which was the reason for the "war" in the first place!

And There's More

The profits from these massive debts have been used to erect a complete and almost hidden economic and political colossus over our nation. They keep telling us they are trying to do us "good," when in truth they work to bring harm and injury to our people. These would-be despots know it is easier to control and rob an ill, poorly-educated and confused people than it is a healthy and intelligent population, so they deliberately prevent real cures for diseases, they degrade our educational systems, and they stir up social and racial unrest. For the same reason they favor drug use, alcohol, racial intermarriage, sexual promiscuity, abortion, pornography, and crime. Everything which debilitates the minds and bodies of the peeple is secretly encouraged, as it makes the people less able to oppose them or even to understand what is being done to them.

Family, morals, love of Country, the Christian religion, all that is honorable is being swept away, while they try to build their new, subservient man. Our new "rulers" are trying to change our whole racial, social, religious, and political order, but they will not change the debt-money economic system by which they rob and rule. Our people have become tenants and "debt-slaves" to the Bankers and their agents in the land our fathers conquered. It is conquest through the most gigantic fraud and swindle in the history of mankind. And we remind you again: The key to their wealth and power over us is their ability to create "money" out of nothing and lend it to us at interest. If they had not been allowed to do that, they would never have gained secret control of our nation.

Let us now consider the correct method of providing the medium of exchange (money) needed by our people.

The Constitutional Way --
Every Citizen A Stockholder

If we would have used the Consistutional way of "creating" the money needed in the nation, the Federal Congress would spend most of its time and study on the issuance and control of an adequate supply of stable money for the people. If an increase of population and production required an increase in the medium of exchange, Congress would authorize the "coining," (i.e., printing) of the determined amount. Some could be used to pay current legitimate expenses of the Federal Government, with the balance paid directly to the citizens. Records for payment would be similar to Social Security records, except a citizen would be recorded at birth, instead of when he first goes to work. Each person on the records as of the date of the Congressional authorization would receive an equal amount just as if he were a stockholder holding one share. Just think -- a payment of only $20 to each citizen would put $4 billion of debt-free and interest-free money into circulation.

Such a suggestion always scares the Bankers. Their propagandists will immediately cry, "printing press money," and warn that it would soon be "worthless" and would "cause inflation."

The truth is their immense usury charges on their "created" credit (our debt) is the sole cause of "inflation." All prices on all industry, trade and labor must be raised periodically to pay the ever increasing usury charges. That is the ONLY cause of higher prices, and the money-changers spend millions in propaganda to keep you from realizing that.

The money-creators (Bankers) know that if we ever tried a Constitutional issue of debt-free, interest-free currency, even a limited issue, the benefits would be apparent immediately. That they must prevent. Abraham Lincoln was the last President to issue such debt-free and interest-free currency (in 1863) and he was assassinated shortly thereafter.

No Banker's Plunder

Under a Constitutional system no private banks would exist to rob the people. Government banks under the control of the people's representatives would issue and control all money and credit. They would issue not only actual currency, but could lend limited credit at no interest for the purchase of capital goods, such as homes. A $60,000 loan would require only $60.000 repayment, not $255,931 as it is now. Everyone who supplied materials and labor for the home would get paid just as they do today, but the Bankers would NOT get $195,931 in usury, AND THAT IS WHY THEY RIDICULE AND DESTROY ANYONE SUGGESTING GOVERNMENT (CITIZENS') MONEY WITHOUT INTEREST AND WITHOUT DEBT.

History tells us of debt-free and interest-free money issued by governments. The American colonies did it in the 1700's and their wealth soon rivalled England and brought restrictions from Parliament, which led to the Revolutionary War. Abraham Lincoln did it in 1863 to help finance the Civil War. He was later assassinated by an agent of the Rothschild Bank. No debt-free or interest-free money has been issued in America since then. Several Arab nations issue interest-free loaas to their citizens today. The Saracean Empire forbad interest on money for 1,000 years, and its wealth outshone even Saxon Europe. Mandarin China issued its own money, interest-free and debt-free, and historians and collectors of art today consider those centuries to be China's time of greatest wealth, culture and peace.

Germany issued deht-free and interest-free money from 1935 and on, accounting for its startling rise from the depression to a world power in 5 years. Germany financed its entire, government and war operation from 1935 to 1945 without gold and without debt, and it took the whole Capitalist and Communist world tn destroy the German power over Europe and bring Europe back under the heel of the Bankers. Such history of money does not even appear in the textbooks of public (government) schools today.

Issuing money which doesn't have to be paid back in interest leaves the money available to use in the exchange of goods and services and its only continuing cost is replacement as the paper wears out. Money is the paper ticket by which such transfers are made and should always be in sufficient quantity to transfer all possible production of the nation to ultimate consumers.

It is as ridiculous for a nation to say to its citizens, "You must consume less because we are short of money," as it would be for an Airline to say "Our planes are flying, but we can't take you because we are short of tickets."

Why You Haven't Known

We realize this small, and necessarily incomplete, article on money may be charged with oversimplification. Some may say that if it is that simple the people would have known about it, and it could not have happened. But this MONEY-LENDERS' consPIRACY is as old as Babylon, and even in America it dates far back before the year 1913. Actually, 1913 may be considered the year a which their previous plans came to fruition, and the way opened for complete economic conquest of our people. The consPIRACY is old enough in America so that its agents have been, for many years, in positions such as newspaper publishers, editors, columnists, church ministers, university presidents, professors, textbook writers, labor union leaders, movie makers, radio and TV commentators, politicians from school board members to U.S. presidents, and many others.

Controlled News and Information

These agents control the information available to our people. They manipulate public opinion, elect whom they will locally and nationally, and never expose the crooked money system. They promote school bonds, municipal bonds, expensive and detrimental farm programs, "urban renewal," foreign aid, and many other schemes which will put the people more into debt to the Bankers. Thoughtful citizens wonder why billions are spent on one program and billions on another which may duplicate it or even nullify it, such as paying some farmers not to raise crops, while at the same time building dams or canals to irrigate more farm land. Crazy or stupid? Neither. The goal is more debt. Thousands of government-sponsored ways to waste money go on continually. Most make no sense, but they are never exposed for what they really are, builders of "billions for the bankers and debts for the people."

So-called "economic experts" write syndicated columns in hundreds of newspapers, craftily designed to prevent the people from learning the simple truth about our money system. Commentators on radio and TV, preachers, educators, and politicians blame the people as wasteful, lazy, or spend-thrift, and blame the workers and consumers for the increase in debts and the inflation of prices, when they know the cause is the debt-money system itself. Our peopie are literally drowned in charges and counter-charges designed to confuse them and keep them from understanding the unconstitutional and evil money-system that is so efficiently and silently robbing the farmers, the workers, and the businessmen of the fruits of their labors and of their freedoms.

When some few Patriotic people or organizations who know the truth begin to expose them or try to stop any of their mad schemes, they are ridiculed and smeared as "right-wing extremists," "super-patriots," "ultra-rightists," "bigots," "racists," even "fascists" and "anti-semites." Any name is used which will cause them to shut up or will at least stop other people from listening to the warning they are giving. Articles and books such as you are now reading are kept out of schools, libraries, and book stores.

Some, who are especially vocal in their exposure of the treason against our people, are harassed by government agencies such as the EPA, OSHA, the IRS, and others, causing them financial loss or bankruptcy. Using the above methods, they have been completely successful in preventing most Americans from learning the things you have read in this pamphlet. However, in spite of their control of information, they realize many citizens are learning the truth. Therefore, to prevent violence or armed resistance to their plunder of America, they plan to register all firearms and eventually to disarm all citizens. They have to eliminate most guns, except those in the hands of their government police and army.

Tell The People

The "almost hidden" conspirators in politics, religion, education, entertainment, and the news media are working for a Banker-owned United States in a Banker-owned world under a Banker-owned World Government!

Love of Country, compassion for your Race, and concern for your children should make you deeply interested in this, America's greatest problem, for our generation has not suffered under the "yoke" as the coming generations will. Usury and taxes will continue to take a larger and larger part of the annual earnings of the people and put them into the pockets of the Bankers and their political Agents. Increasing "government" regulations will prevent citizen protest and opposition to their control. Is it possible that your grandchildren will own neither home nor car, but will live in "government-owned" apartments and ride to work in "governent-owned" buses (both paying usury to the Bankers), AND BE ALLOWED TO KEEP JUST ENOUGH OF THEIR EARNINGS TO BUY A MINIMUM OF FOOD AND CLOTHING while their Rulers wallow in luxury? In Asia and eastern Europe it is called "communism;" in America it is called "Democracy" and "Capitalism."

America will not shake off her Banker-controlled dictatorship as long as the people are ignorant of the hidden controllers. International financiers, who control most of the governments of the nations, and most sources of information, seem to have us completely within their grasp. They are afraid of only one thing: an awakened Patriotic Citizenry, armed with the truth, and with a trust in Almighty God for deliverance.

Audit The Federal Reserve System?

The Federal Reserve has never been audited by the government since it took over our money and credit in 1913. In 1975 a bill, H.R. 4316, to require an audit was introduced in Congress.

During the April, 1975 hearings, this author submitted a statement favoring the audit, as did many others. Due to pressure from the money controllers, it was not passed. No audit of the Fed has ever been made.

Why Haven't They Told You?

Why haven't they told you about this scandal -- the greatest fraud in history which has caused Americans and others to spill oceans of blood, pay trillions of dollars interest on fraudulent loans and burden themselves with unnecessary taxes?

Who are "they"? "They" are all of the politicians of the two old parties and elected officials. All "educational" groups like the League of Women Voters, the Heritage Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). All news services, such as the Associated Press and the United Press International. All daily newspapers, including the New York "Times" and Los Angeles "Times." All weekly "news" magazines, such as "Time" and "Newsweek." All economics and history professors at all colleges and universities. All financial newsletter publishers. All labor leaders. All televangelists, your local minister, priest or rabbi. All of the above and more are hiding the truth from you.

When the credit/debt bubble is pricked by the bankers they will foreclose on America. Then, they will own it all. There may be a "managed chaos" -- riots and terrorism -- to alarm the people with the fear of anarchy as the bankers prepare to impose a communistic dictatorship on America as the "solution" for the problems they, themselves, have created.

Only an educated people will be able to resist the lies of the bankers' stooges. This is why it is important for you to know the truth about how the bankers make billions for themselves and bring debts to the people.
allsouthwest.com



To: long-gone who wrote (85639)5/22/2002 12:09:08 AM
From: marek_wojna  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 116816
 
<<The Real Story of the Money-Control Over America>>

That was worth reading, Richard. Are we gonna end up like the guys 250 years ago?..... Who can blame the people for trusting the government? Democracy is now. Difference is when gold was the money there weren't so many ANALYSTS. BTW, JPM send the alarming signal to their customers that gold is about to crash and go to South Pole. IMO they have too much of the paper.

<<Declining US Dollar vs. Gold

By Alf Field
May 21 2002

This commentary has been provided courtesy of 321gold.com



Can you remember where you were on 15 August 1971? I can, vividly. I was on vacation with my family driving through Lancashire in England when the news that America was cancelling the right of foreign central banks to convert US dollars into gold came over the car radio.

I was shocked by the news. What it meant was that the world was embarking on an era of freely floating exchange rates and that the world was effectively going to be on a US Dollar Standard for the foreseeable future. It was to be a gigantic experiment of trying to operate world finances using only paper money.

It reminded me of the first experiment with pure paper currency that was engineered by John Law in France in 1715 and which ended in disaster. By 1720 the shrewder financiers around started to convert Law's paper back into gold and found that there was plenty of paper but very little gold. So it has been with every paper (fiat) currency ever since. I felt that the experiment with the US Dollar Standard would also end in tears.

To be fair, it has been more successful than I had ever expected, but that does not alter the inevitability that it will succumb to the same fate as every other fiat currency system. The reason is two-fold. Firstly, politicians cannot resist excessive creation of money and, secondly, the scheme is flawed.

Let me explain. Under the US Dollar Standard every country that runs a trade account deficit must attract a capital account surplus to offset the trade deficit. It does this by raising interest rates, suffering a decline in its currency against the US Dollar and/or possibly resorting to foreign borrowings. The only country to which this does not apply is the USA.

The USA is able to run a large trade deficit because foreigners are prepared to "hold" US Dollars because it is the Standard. Countries with trade surpluses accumulate US Dollars but they do not "hold" them, they immediately invest them in some form of USA investment. In other words, the dollars return to the USA. This situation will continue for as long as foreigners have confidence in the US Dollar.

The absurdity of this arrangement can be illustrated by an analogy. It is akin to going down to the local Mercedes Benz dealer, buying their latest model, paying for it and then borrowing the full price back from the dealer. So you now have a new Mercedes for no cash outlay. Next month you go back and buy yet another vehicle in the same way, and again the month after that ad infinitum.

Eventually, even if your name is Bill Gates, the Mercedes dealer will refuse to supply any more vehicles unless paid in cash, real money. This is exactly how the US Dollar Standard operates. It can continue until the foreign creditors, the equivalent of the Mercedes dealer, say "No More!"

Why do I raise this now? All over the world currencies are popping upwards and giving technical "buy" signals against the US Dollar. The following chart of the Euro illustrates the trend. Once the Euro clears 96 cents the new trend will be undeniable.

Similarly, the US Dollar index has a recent low of 111.0. A violation of this level to the downside will cause technical analysts to get very bearish on the US Dollar.

This has implications for the US Dollar Standard. If the US Dollar goes into serious decline, it will be the first indication that foreigners are losing confidence in the system that has lasted for 31 years. It will be the equivalent of the Mercedes dealer saying "No More!"

Investors worldwide will be faced with the problem of what to do with capital received from the sale of US Dollars assets. Other currencies will initially be beneficiaries, but a small, but increasing proportion will be channelled into the ultimate money, the final store of value, gold bullion. It will be similar to the dramatic finale of John Law's experiment in France in 1720.

I have no doubt that the demise of the US Dollar, which seems to be inevitable, will unleash a bull market in gold bullion that even the most avid gold bull cannot now imagine. This is not something that we can contemplate with any degree of comfort because the world that we now know will have changed beyond recognition.

Alf Field

<<Declining US Dollar vs. Gold

By Alf Field
May 21 2002

This commentary has been provided courtesy of 321gold.com



Can you remember where you were on 15 August 1971? I can, vividly. I was on vacation with my family driving through Lancashire in England when the news that America was cancelling the right of foreign central banks to convert US dollars into gold came over the car radio.

I was shocked by the news. What it meant was that the world was embarking on an era of freely floating exchange rates and that the world was effectively going to be on a US Dollar Standard for the foreseeable future. It was to be a gigantic experiment of trying to operate world finances using only paper money.

It reminded me of the first experiment with pure paper currency that was engineered by John Law in France in 1715 and which ended in disaster. By 1720 the shrewder financiers around started to convert Law's paper back into gold and found that there was plenty of paper but very little gold. So it has been with every paper (fiat) currency ever since. I felt that the experiment with the US Dollar Standard would also end in tears.

To be fair, it has been more successful than I had ever expected, but that does not alter the inevitability that it will succumb to the same fate as every other fiat currency system. The reason is two-fold. Firstly, politicians cannot resist excessive creation of money and, secondly, the scheme is flawed.

Let me explain. Under the US Dollar Standard every country that runs a trade account deficit must attract a capital account surplus to offset the trade deficit. It does this by raising interest rates, suffering a decline in its currency against the US Dollar and/or possibly resorting to foreign borrowings. The only country to which this does not apply is the USA.

The USA is able to run a large trade deficit because foreigners are prepared to "hold" US Dollars because it is the Standard. Countries with trade surpluses accumulate US Dollars but they do not "hold" them, they immediately invest them in some form of USA investment. In other words, the dollars return to the USA. This situation will continue for as long as foreigners have confidence in the US Dollar.

The absurdity of this arrangement can be illustrated by an analogy. It is akin to going down to the local Mercedes Benz dealer, buying their latest model, paying for it and then borrowing the full price back from the dealer. So you now have a new Mercedes for no cash outlay. Next month you go back and buy yet another vehicle in the same way, and again the month after that ad infinitum.

Eventually, even if your name is Bill Gates, the Mercedes dealer will refuse to supply any more vehicles unless paid in cash, real money. This is exactly how the US Dollar Standard operates. It can continue until the foreign creditors, the equivalent of the Mercedes dealer, say "No More!"

Why do I raise this now? All over the world currencies are popping upwards and giving technical "buy" signals against the US Dollar. The following chart of the Euro illustrates the trend. Once the Euro clears 96 cents the new trend will be undeniable.

Similarly, the US Dollar index has a recent low of 111.0. A violation of this level to the downside will cause technical analysts to get very bearish on the US Dollar.

This has implications for the US Dollar Standard. If the US Dollar goes into serious decline, it will be the first indication that foreigners are losing confidence in the system that has lasted for 31 years. It will be the equivalent of the Mercedes dealer saying "No More!"

Investors worldwide will be faced with the problem of what to do with capital received from the sale of US Dollars assets. Other currencies will initially be beneficiaries, but a small, but increasing proportion will be channelled into the ultimate money, the final store of value, gold bullion. It will be similar to the dramatic finale of John Law's experiment in France in 1720.

I have no doubt that the demise of the US Dollar, which seems to be inevitable, will unleash a bull market in gold bullion that even the most avid gold bull cannot now imagine. This is not something that we can contemplate with any degree of comfort because the world that we now know will have changed beyond recognition.

Alf Field



To: long-gone who wrote (85639)5/22/2002 2:42:52 AM
From: Alex  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 116816
 
Moody's Warns on Debt as Congress Stalls

Tue May 21, 3:37 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service said on Tuesday that it was
monitoring the U.S. fiscal position as Congress stalls over the Bush administration's request to increase
the government's borrowing limit.

The political row in Washington with Congress refusing to allow the government to borrow more
money as its budget returns to deficit does not immediately hurt U.S. credit worthiness, Moody's said,
adding that the government has enough money to last through June.

But if Congress continues to stall on the debt ceiling, Moody's said it could put the United States debt
on review for a possible downgrade to its gilt-edged Triple A debt rating -- just as it did during the
1996 budget crisis.