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To: regli who wrote (27843)	3/4/2005 7:36:16 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

During the 1930s it wasn't the US that was short of gold, it was the UK. The US was really purchasing gold on behalf of the Bank of England. Charles Rist, governor of the Bank of France and one of only three economists of the era to predict the Great Depression, had advised Britain that they were over-valuing the Pound Sterling when Britain went back on the gold standard. The other two economists who predicted the Great Depression were Swedish economist Gustav Cassel and Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. This flattering over-valuation of the Pound Sterling led to a run on the UK gold stocks as other nations sought to exchange their paper Pounds for gold. Montague Norman persuaded Benjamin Strong of the US Federal Reserve to come to their aid. Charles Rist from the Bank of France and Hjalmar Schacht from the German Reichsbank told Norman and Strong that they had no intention of joining the US and UK in a beggar-thy-neighbor round of currency devaluations. This helped France and Germany avoid the worst of the Depression, although not Hitler. .

To: regli who wrote (27843)	3/4/2005 10:12:55 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110194

>>The fact is that the U.S. government made gold illegal to own because it was short on gold. <<, That is a nonsensical statement. Or perhaps the statement is just carelessly using the phrase "it was short on." If you mean that the governnment feared excessive redemptions of paper notes for gold, it is correct. Actually from that time forward, after Roosevelt adjusted the price of gold, gold flowed into the United States in large quantities, continuing into the Second World War when the United States seemed a safe haven for European gold. The idea that now, with no gold standard, the price of gold could actually fall as part of a deflationary contraction, betrays a total failure to grasp economic fundamentals. All world currencies are now fiat currencies--paper currencies or even electronic currencies.All currencies are detached from any material substance. Except for the anomaly of Japan, with its pathological addiction to excess saving, deflation is no longer possible.