Fiat’s value is maintained not only by the demand for fiat to pay taxes (which I think is actually a small and insignificant factor these days) but also and more significantly due to the fact that the government says it’s the only legal tender for contracts enforced by the courts. If you make a contract denominated in gold, the contract can’t be forced to be paid in gold. The payer can also choose to pay in legal tender, else the contract is invalid. And more over the value of fiat is because everyone has confidence that it is the most liquid money. Liquidity is a self-fulfilling phenomenon but it is also created by a deep, liquid sovereign bond market. The USD has the most liquid Treasuries because there’s no restrictions on who can deal in them (unlike for example Japan which requires approval from the Finance Ministry) and the dollar has never been cancelled unlike all the European currencies (even the UK recently cancelled some pound notes and India also did recently). This combined with the USA being the consumer for the entire world is why the USD is the reserve currency. But this is beginning to shift and will entirely shift by 2032.95. Much of this information originates from Martin Armstrong and I highly suggest you read deep into his blog archives going back years.
There are many factors that play into the confidence of money and you’ve watching too many Bill Still videos. :) I watched them too.
Thanks for your comment and instigating me to write a detailed comment on the issue.
I do not know who Bill Still and Martin Armstrong are.
I watched a lot of Michael Norman and a little Warren Mosler whom is the source of Michael Norman's knowledge.
I also watched "Century Of Enslavement" by the corbettreport, "The Hidden Secrets Of Money" by Mike Maloney (a POS, but it is a good series) , Eustace Mullins' (a holocaust denier, but he says the truth about other issues) talks about the Federal Reserve and more.
edit: Sorry, I watched Bill Still's documentary about the Federal reserve recently and loved it.
I did not remember his name.
This was one documentary which I forgot its name.
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Mike Maloney is reasonably astute but again he and Bill Still (who did a video on the history of money and central banking) are out of touch with a more complete understanding of money, formation of civilization, and how it relates the epochal shift underway with Bitcoin. See my recent blogs (and the comments below the blogs) on Bitcoin rises because land is becoming worthless and my two blogs (Part 1 and 2) on Geographical Cultural Ethos → science is dead. Also I suggest my blogs from last year Get Ready for a World Currency and The Golden Knowledge Age is Rising. After reading all that you will be more up-to-speed on my macro economic thesis and I cite numerous Armstrong blogs so you will hopefully gain some insight into his contribution.
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See my edition to my previous reply to you.
So I did watch one Bill Still video and liked it before my previous reply.
Martin Armstrong I never watched before, and after I checked I found that he was interviewed 2 days ago by Greg Hunter, which is as bad as being interviewed by CNBC.
I caught him lying here:
steemit is garbage, and unlike fecebook, does not play video at current time when given the link for it. it plays from the start.
He said the ECB will not be able to buy all the bonds.
The ECB can create as many Euros as it wishes out of nothing, so just like James "CIA asset" Richards, this self proclaimed insider (similar to Richards in this too) builds an entirely articulated set of deductions out of one false assumption, and just like Richards' predictions are wrong to follow, so are Armstrong's.
I caught him lying again here:
A woman in France told me the exact opposite (twice) to what he said:
They buy real estate properties in Europe (and entire streets) and they buy actual real estate instead of (or at least along with) stocks.
These people are dangerous and at best waste of time to listen to.
You should listen to the health channels and videos which I recommended before, and remember my reservations about some of them, because health should come first.
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Incorrect. The EU will not be able to buy all the bonds forever. They are bankrupting the pensions by doing that. They would then need to bailout the pensions. After that they will have to bailout everything else they destroy with ZIRP. After a while, they will be the entire economy, which means economic devastation and flight of confidence.
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The pensions are not entirely vested in sovereign bonds, and even if they were, and even if it did bankrupt those pensions, they can compensate the savers just enough to prevent a catastrophe.
As you were partially aware yourself:
In Japan the vast majority of the economy is already nationalized.
A good example of a fascist state.
Are the Japanese people in need for gold/silver coins/bars?
Are they in need for stacked food or water reserves?
Did a catastrophe happen in Japan, aside from Fukushima which is unrelated?
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All of Japan’s debt is internally financed and it is a homogeneous culture. I covered that in another blog. Don’t equate it to the EU.
Also Japan is a mercantile export economy. Significant portions of the EU are consumer economies that import more than they export. Industry and engineering thrives in Japan inspite of the debt because of their culture and because the debt was not predominantly consumer debt. Southern Europeans get all lazy, take advantage, and destroy their economy when offered socialism and consumer debt. For example in Europe there are 32 hour work weeks and 1 month paid vacation. You will not find that in Japan. The Japanese make great sacrifices because their dedication to their homeland and culture is greater than their desire to minimize their opportunity costs. Asians are much more obedient. Europeans are much more willing to go for individual leverage at the cost of defecting from the group. They currently defect by “nobly” embracing socialism wherein they steal from each other by taking on more collectivized debt. They all accept this while the gravy is still flowing.
Eventually those who want to profit will have to leave the EU because there will be no profit otherwise. And that will spiral into a Minsky Moment.
I know many Europeans who are contemplating their early retirement (since they got rich on the rise of Bitcoin) and to escape from the European tax and regulation regime.
The other problem for Europe is the collapse in demographics. Japan too but they can take immigration from Asia for homogeneity and dedicated workers. Whereas, Europe is taking in rapefugees.
Yes they had a 600 year Dark Age where only rice was money. That is not in the cards right now because they can leverage the rise of the rest of Asia and their expert engineering.
C.f. also my comment on Tom Luongo’s recent blog.
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Hi @anonymint!, came across your articles this friday, been reading a lot this weekend, during the readings i found out about Martin Armstrong too, last night i was watching The Forecaster Film :)
Nice to know you and lot of reading to do!
Have a nice day!
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