Gold & Politicians – Getting It Right For Once

QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; I heard you on Infowars. I understand how the gold standard would not solve anything for the problem is politicians and not what we call money. Some think that you can create a floating gold standard so gold would be money but not fixed. I really have a hard time seeing where this would solve anything for you still would have loans then in gold and you end back at the same spot with paper gold. This is really getting confusing. That was the question I wanted to ask.

Thank you

ANSWER: It really does not matter what we use for money. It is only a medium of exchange. Before 1934, private loans always had a gold clause. So yes, you are correct. You ended up with more gold owed than actually existed, This is fundamental to any credit system.

The problem is people are arguing over what should be money as if this really matters. There were defaults under a gold standard just as there were under paper. This is kind of blaming your wife because she failed to compel you to take the trash out.

The problem is not money and as long as people only focus on money assuming some return to a gold based system will magically convert all politicians into saints, then we doom ourselves to repeat history for this nonsense is arguing at the surface and ignoring the fact that governments and monetary systems have collapsed for countless millennium. The list of empire, nations, and city states that have collapsed are countless since the beginning of recorded history regardless of what money was. The common denominator that existed for EVERY collapse, was abuse of credit and politicians. How about the Athenian Crisis of 354BC. Just replace the names and you have 2007. Or how about the Roman Financial Debt Crisis of 53BC when interest rates soared because the politicians were borrowing so much to bribe people for votes. Or how about the Roman Debt Crisis of 49BC which ended in revolution. In all cases, money was gold and it failed to prevent any crisis.