Can Gold set us free?
A gold standard also helps prevent governments from starting useless spending programs, creating expensive bureaucracies, running budget deficits, and waging unnecessary wars
The Fed’s role in the Housing Crash of ‘07
“The Fed, in effect, has become a serial bubble blower.” Stephen Roach, chief economist, Morgan Stanley
Federal War on Gold
Given the rising price of gold and the fact that federal spending is totally out of control, the prospect of gold confiscation and criminalizing the private ownership of gold by federal authorities inevitably rears its ugly head.
"Monetary Policy and the State of the Economy"
Transparency in monetary policy is a goal we should all support. I've often wondered why Congress so willingly has given up its prerogative over monetary policy. Astonishingly, Congress in essence has ceded total control over the value of our money to a secretive central bank.
FEDWIRE: A SUBSIDY THAT FULLY RECOVERS ITS COST
The Fed will credit the receiver’s account even if the sender doesn't have enough money of its own at the time of the transfer. This is an element of what the Fed calls ‘finality.’ Once its account is credited by the Fed, the receiver (Citibank, for example) is insulated if the sender (say, Chase) does not have the funds at the end of the day. If Chase can’t pay, however, the U.S. taxpayer effectively will.
Liberty Dollar sues the US Mint
On Tuesday, March 20, 2007 the Liberty Dollar filed suit against the U.S. Mint in U.S. District Court in Evansville Indiana. The organization asked the court to declare that the use of the Liberty Dollar is not a ‘federal crime,’ as claimed by the U.S. Mint. And the organization further asked the court to enter a permanent injunction against the U.S. Mint requiring it to remove any reference that the use of Liberty Dollars is a federal crime from its website.
Former Fed analyst questions M1 currency component spike prior to 9/11
According to Bergman, terrorism and terrorist financing were known to be part of ‘suspicious activity’ however, and the August 2, 2001 supervisory letter clearly called for scrutiny of suspicious activity, which implies and includes the tracking of terrorism activity and financing. The unanswered question on Bergman’s 40 question Q&A asked why the Board had issued the August 2, 2001 letter
Liberty Dollar office raided by FBI
For approximately six hours they took all the
gold, all the silver, all the platinum and almost two tons of Ron Paul
Dollars that where just delivered last Friday. They also took all the
files, all the computers and froze our bank accounts.
Legal Tender and Illegal Toughness by Fred E. Foldvary
On November 14, 2007, the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and Secret Service raided the premises of Liberty Dollar office in
Evansville, Indiana. Liberty Dollar stated that the agents confiscated
the gold, silver, and platinum that was stored in the premises, and two
tons of Ron Paul Dollars that had just been delivered.. "They also took
GATA begins campaign to wrest documents from Fed, Treasury
GATA delivered to the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury Department
formal requests for access to all documents in their possession that
have been generated since 1990 and mention swaps of gold involving the
U.S. government. Such swaps of gold are commonly used by governments to
intervene surreptitiously in the gold and currency markets, and in May
Rep. Ron Paul's Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act
As
a proponent of competition in currencies, I believe that the American people
should be free to choose the type of currency they prefer to use.
The ability of consumers to adopt alternative currencies can help to keep
the government and the Federal Reserve honest, as the threat that further
GATA begins campaign to wrest documents from Fed, Treasury
GATA today began a campaign to use the federal Freedom of Information
Act to reveal the disposition of United States gold reserves.
Support the Abolition of the Federal Reserve System!
In fact, it is the inflationary policies of
the federal government and the central bank (the Fed) that have brought
us to the brink of a recession in the first place, if we are not
already in one. The present problem revolves around the fact that
creating money out of nothing distorts price signals in the economy,
End the Inflation Tax
Every
paper dollar you own carries the words "Federal Reserve Note" (FRN).
This means they were issued by the Federal Reserve System (Fed), a
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