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If anything the backing of gold should of only be used if they couldn’t pay their debt with the Feds barbaric relic paper money. Now they no longer want it backed because they have to keep up the paper game to infinity They have to keep printing.
Ps Do people think that if they made a digital like Bitcoin that they would only issued so much coins and that’s it? Then I have a bridge to sell them.
I disagree in them blaming gold as being barbaric. Gold was just fine until the Fed Reserve came along and started printing out it’s paper promises depleting the gold thus the value of the paper. The barbaric relic was the Fed Reserve.
I think it was down to 20% backed when Nixon abandoned the idea. I tend to think Keynes was right when he called the gold standard “that barbarous relic”. It meant a lot to people only because they didn’t understand it. they thought they could take paper dollars into the bank and get gold, but that could never have been allowed to happen on any significant basis as there was never enough.
That’s (the barbarous relic bit) not the same as having gold reserves though. Countries keep foreign currency reserves in many formats, cash, foreign bonds (mainly foreign govt but they could hold company debt) and gold/silver. You could have enough gold equivalent to 20% of your currency in circulation and not refer to the currency as being gold backed, but you would still have substantial reserves which cannot be devalued or cancelled.
Posted by goldielocks
@ 19:58 on February 20, 2025
By Schectman I just posted the video keep shutting down. A thought occured to me about all these banks shorting it. They probably would be warned to get out first.
I did get the part where their holding silver down because larger amounts are being used by military industrial and that’s why but Russia China and India are buying it now and calling for delivery then it went blank again. I have to keep turning it back on. I read somewhere silver is a rising star in India.
Posted by goldielocks
@ 19:06 on February 20, 2025
Thanks for trying to help but I don’t understand bonds relationship to gold other than basics when they’d buy gold over bonds and the major ponzi scheme of debt. But not if revalued at a higher price if the dollar is no longer backed by gold. You may have told me but it didn’t register. Thanks for trying though.
Exclusive: Barrick Gold signs agreement with Mali to end mining dispute
As part of the new agreement, Barrick will pay a total of 275 billion CFA or $438 million to the Mali government, in return for the release of detained employees, seized gold, and restarting the operations at the Loulo-Gounkoto mine.
Barrick did not immediately respond to an email query by Reuters. A spokesperson for Mali’s mines ministry declined to comment.
higher Gold price/ a very high gold price would reduce bond issuance by dropping the interest rate on US debt….As it stands now at 42 $ set against a $ 37 Trillion debt, is neither here or there…..but get it upto $ 14 thousand and 10 % of the debt is backed by Gold…..
Plus I think you have $ 28 billion of debt maturing, this year alone, much will have to be rolled over at whatever the rate is, plus existing debt ie the $ 37 trillion has such vast coupon payments, you are issuing debt, to pay the coupons on existing debt.
Swiss gold exports to the US were almost at 200 metric tons in January, one factor why so high: 400 ounces bars were imported into Switzerland, refined and exported as 100 ounces bars to the US for COMEX delivery
Posted by goldielocks
@ 11:09 on February 20, 2025
I wonder why it would reduce the need to issue bonds if gold is not backing the dollar. 42 dollars I want to buy it then. Why should they have to issue bonds or borrow anything?
Re Europe….ain’t that the truth….I am getting a bit worried about Schwab….we don’t seem to be getting his usual amount of advice…maybe it’s because he can’t get off the Dunny, for any longer than a minute or two….
“Europeans abandoned the defense necessary for their own sovereignty so they could finance welfare states, which they then destroyed with mass immigration
So now they have infinite migrants, bankrupt social programs, and a complete lack of security”