Category Archives: Money

what is money anyhow?

Ugo Bardi on money, gold, and silver

Posted on May 18, 2017 by

What follows is from a really great book: Bardi, Ugo. 2014. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet. Chelsea Green Publishing. Alice Friedemann   www.energyskeptic.com  author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, … Continue reading →

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What if cash were made illegal so your money could be used to bail out too-big-to-fail banks after the next crash?

Posted on November 25, 2015 by

  Ellen Brown. November 23, 2015. Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-In.  The Web of Debt Blog (Excerpts) By quietly eliminating the possibility of cash withdrawals, banks can make sure the … Continue reading →

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Cash is King in a deflation — but there are dangers

Posted on May 1, 2014 by

Risk 1: Capital controls Restrictions on bank withdrawals (no ATM withdrawals, no bill payments, etc) Restrictions on money market fund redemptions Greater restrictions on retirement fund liquidations Fixing an official exchange rate and criminalizing market rate transactions Banning the conversion … Continue reading →

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Why Treasury Bills are likely to be safe for at least a few years

Posted on May 1, 2014 by

my comment: SHORT-TERM 4-week or 13-week treasury BILLS that is Apr 19, 2012   Ilargi at the automaticearth.com Mauldin: unproductive government debt is killing us. So we either make some big, tough collective decisions, and make them soon; or we come … Continue reading →

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Inflation: defining and identifying it

Posted on May 1, 2014 by

Ilargy 2011 automatic earth The fact that there’s all that zombie money around (or zombie credit, to be precise) leads many to believe the US witnesses inflation. Not true. Inflation is not the same as rising prices. Prices can rise … Continue reading →

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Drowning in digits: National, Unfunded Liabilities, State, and Derivative Debt

Posted on April 26, 2014 by

Just about everyone I know believes in the permanence of the Dollar, the Eternal Supremacy of the United States, and the propaganda to constantly grow their money by taking risks. So they dutifully feed hard-earned wages into the voracious slot … Continue reading →

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How Money is Created: 3 articles

Posted on April 24, 2014 by

Also see: Money as Debt (45 minute video) Can Banks Create Money out of Nothing? – Richard Werner Money Creation in the Modern Economy –Bank of England David Graeber. March 18, 2014. The Truth Is Out: Money Is Just An IOU, … Continue reading →

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Economics 101: Liquidity is a Loan, Why prices can go UP in a Deflation, do not buy Gold, and Much More

Posted on March 29, 2014 by

December 29, 2007. Karl Denninger. The Year In Review And a Look Ahead for 2008. market-ticker [I’ve snipped out a lot of this article, which is no longer available on the internet.  It was very prescient, and even though some … Continue reading →

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Money – what is it?

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

The following are good articles to read about what money really is The supply of money in an energy-scarce world  2011. Richard Douthwaite. Summary of this article: Money has no value unless it can be exchanged for goods and services … Continue reading →

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Dailyreckoning

Posted on March 19, 2014 by

Preface. Bonner & Wiggins at the dailyreckoning called the 2008 housing crash in 2002 and the 2000 dot.com crash in 1999. They’ve got a lot right, a lot wrong, and are always entertaining to read. A few random excerpts are … Continue reading →

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