Text from "The Coming Battle", 1899, regarding the dangers of central banking

[linusPAULing]

I haven't read this book entirely yet, but one thing is becoming quite clear. Our government and others have in the past issued "government notes" with profound success. The problem with federal reserve fiat currency is that it's maintained by a money cartel (monopoly) that adjusts the money supply in secret to their own benefit at the expense of the country. Among many of the insidious ramifications of this system, the cartel can induce booms and busts while having exclusive fore-knowledge of the timing of these events... and of course, if you can time the markets you make huge profits.

http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/comingbattle/cbtabcon.htm

We must be cautious of a gold standard. Perhaps no time in history has it been more clear the extent to which they can manipulate the price of gold... why would a gold standard fix anything if these interests have such a clear corner on the gold markets. There are other options, including silver-backed currencies and true government issue currency, such as Lincoln's greenbacks.

These resources further address these issues...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=money+as+debt&emb=0#
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=money+as+debt&emb=0#q=money%20masters&emb=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8484911570371055528


...From now on depressions will be scientifically created.”
-Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913, on the Federal Reserve Act

[BarryDonegan]

I haven't read this book entirely yet, but one thing is becoming quite clear. Our government and others have in the past issued "government notes" with profound success. The problem with federal reserve fiat currency is that it's maintained by a money cartel (monopoly) that adjusts the money supply in secret to their own benefit at the expense of the country. Among many of the insidious ramifications of this system, the cartel can induce booms and busts while having exclusive fore-knowledge of the timing of these events... and of course, if you can time the markets you make huge profits.

http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/comingbattle/cbtabcon.htm

We must be cautious of a gold standard. Perhaps no time in history has it been more clear the extent to which they can manipulate the price of gold... why would a gold standard fix anything if these interests have such a clear corner on the gold markets. There are other options, including silver-backed currencies and true government issue currency, such as Lincoln's greenbacks.

These resources further address these issues...

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=money+as+debt&emb=0#
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=money+as+debt&emb=0#q=money%20masters&emb=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8484911570371055528

“...From now on depressions will be scientifically created.”
-Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913, on the Federal Reserve Act

thats the part you fix, the them having the gold part... if you grab a piece or two every time they pull a market switcheroo, in physical shape, your good.

[linusPAULing]

thats the part you fix, the them having the gold part... if you grab a piece or two every time they pull a market switcheroo, in physical shape, your good.


Draining the vaults of London, Zurich, and the IMF are not likely to happen imo. I would worry that they'd use a gold standard here as another excuse for a consfication.

If you research this a bit you find that Colonial Scrip and Lincoln greenback's worked quite well, and the central bankers destroyed both. If anyone has sources of information to the contrary I'd love to see it.

Somehow these metals paper markets should be disconnected to spot prices of real metals.... today they are clearly disconnected to the real price of metals.


If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. - Thomas Edison


People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest. - Thomas Edison