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To: Real Man who wrote (363046)	3/19/2008 8:08:18 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Whoa, you've seen this up close and personal, and more than once?

To: Real Man who wrote (363046)	3/19/2008 8:14:51 PM
From: pogohere	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Colonial Pennsylvania's system did not fail. The US Greenback of the Civil War period did not fail. the Germans created a paper "fiat" system in the 1930s when the international banksters wouldn't lend them gold: "The Magic of Money," Hjalmar Schacht Germany thus recovered from the depression faster than Britain or the United States. And no, it wasn't by manufacturing armaments, although that figured in later. [In 1939 Hitler fired Schacht and the other bankers who created the MELO program in the 1930s--a successful fiat money program-- who wouldn't finance the armaments he wanted] Message 24036354

To: Real Man who wrote (363046)	3/19/2008 8:15:24 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 436258

The rate on the three-month bill, viewed by investors as a haven in times of trouble, dropped 32 basis points, or 0.32 percentage point, to 0.56 percent at 5:30 p.m. in New York, according to bond broker Cantor Fitzgerald LP. It's the lowest level since May 1958. And they'll cut to zero. bloomberg.com