This series should be understood from where the author is coming from. He is promoting gold and silver as the real and only money.
1 Episode 1. Money vs Currency
It all began in Egypt where currency started. But it was not yet money because gold which they used then lacked one characteristic: being divisible
1. Both money and currency share same characteristics:
Portable (you can have in your wallet unlike in trading wherein you bring large commoditiies with you
Divisible you can divide it into units for ease of counting
Fungible it is of similar value as the next currency
Durable cant be destroyed by moth or elements
But money has one distinct characteristic that of being store of value God and silver has distinction of storing value through the years. It is valuable then 5,000 years ago and valuable now
2. Fiat currency since 1945, after Bretton Woods agreement, govt preferred fiat currnecy, ie currency that are just paper money created by mere faith (fiat in govt) but does not backed up by real
value.
Money before in US, are depository receipt for gold and could be exchanged for gold coins.
Nixon declared in 1970s henceforth, USA will no longer allow redemption of gold by US
dollar holders
3. Money is not preferred because supply of precious metals and govt cant go in to deficit spending
Currency is unlimited because centra banks can print more money or can increase money supply
through some other means like:
4 Increase in money in circulation, ayuda, subsidy, Quantitative Easing. They all mean the same-
increasing currency in circulation
5. All fiat currency all ended up in zero. Bad news for all holding on to paper money
6 Inflation is not a result of some strange mechanism or strange economic phenomenon. It simply means that there is more more currency in circulation and thisi takes away the stored value in your
currency. If you decrease the currency supply there is deflation. If you decrease the value in the currency which happens when govt does it without your consent, Maloney terms is as theft
7. Inflation is not being felt much in USA because it is being exported world wide through trade and
international employment. But when nation sees through that the US dollar is worthless, all the
dollars will go back to US and cause hyperinflation
8. In a decade most world currencieis; US Russia, China have gone up by as much as 18x
See example of how currency is created as in US
1 US treasury issues bonds - IOU and sells this bond through banks
2. Federal Reserve writes a check, using only accounting entries.
It is an IOU (but an unfounded) - currency is created They are merely exchanging IOUS
Currency is created like magic (but the check is unfunded) It is really an entry of numbers
3. Federal Reserve sends the check to various govt agencies to pay for wages,, for war, and other
govt activities
4 The workers and other payees deposit the money in banks
5. More currency is created by banks lending through fractional lending Say 10% reserve the bank
can lend and create 10X the initial deposit. This lending multiplies the currency further
90% of all currency is created in the bank lending
Take note that the currency is created from zero mere exchange of IOU
6. More currency creates inflation
7 The income tax law was created (constitution was amended ) to support the bonds The income tax is to pay the interest on the bond. We have to pay tax to support the currency system.
8. The Federal Reserve is a private entity that pays its stockholder 6% dividend
9. The the debt limit law is a contradiction. There is always a debt for every $ borrowed.
Thus for a $ of principal, there is another debt (2x). If we pay the principal, the currency is
is destroyed. The whole system collapses.
10. The whole system requires more debt to support the currency. The whole thing continues
the interest
The US system only supports silver deposit
Mike accuses the US banks the Federal Reserve of fraud, Ponzi scheme, legalized theft. of stealing value from the citizens.
