Category: Fiat Currency
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
What Has Government Done to the U.S. Dollar? / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Mike_Hewitt
"No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money." (Stephen T. Byington)
The U.S. dollar has changed from being a paper certificate for a tangible asset to a fiat currency - a paper note declared legal tender. By looking at the history of American paper money one can clearly see the distinction.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Expansion of Global Fiat Currencies / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Mike_Hewitt
The expansion of global currencies has exceeded nine percent over the last year.
This essay investigates which currencies are contributing the most to this development. One hundred currencies from 95 sovereign nations and five monetary unions have been examined.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
How the Fed Helped Fund World War I / Politics / Fiat Currency
By: John_Paul_Koning
Governments can pay their bills in three ways: taxes, debt, and inflation. The public usually recognizes the first two, for they are difficult to hide. But the third tends to go unnoticed by the public because it involves a slow and subtle reduction in the value of money, a policy usually unarticulated and complex in design.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Money, Inflation and Uncertainty / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Gary_North
Three decades ago, I was visiting a friend. He was a graduate of the Harvard Business School. He was beginning a successful career as an entrepreneur. We were outside, watching his son play. His son was about five years old. "Robbie," he said, "why does daddy have to go to work every day?" "To buy money," Robbie replied. "No, Robbie. I go to work to earn money."
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Fed Attempts to Export Inflation Will Fail / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Gary_North
If you think people are confused about monetary affairs inside the borders of the nation they live in, you should listen to their explanations of money outside the country, beginning with the idea of "money outside the country."
If you read the financial press, you will run across this phrase: "exported inflation." We never hear the terms "imported deflation" or "exported deflation."
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Why Purchasing Power is More Important than Investment Profits / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
Growing your money is not the most important element of wealth. In fact, growth should come secondary to the preservation of wealth and purchasing power. Too often do investors get distracted with nominal changes in their personal wealth only to find that the thousands of dollars they have collected is worth considerably less than it was when the initial investment was made.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
What is Money and How Does One Measure It? / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Mike_Shedlock
Money is a difficult subject. There is much confusion as to what it is. There is even more confusion as to the best way to measure it. Yet, before we can measure it, we have to define it.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Forgotten Fiat Currency Anniversary, One Hundred Years of Legal Tender / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Professor_Emeritus
An Address at a Fund-Raising Dinner for the benefit of the Ficino School, Auckland, New Zealand October 28, 2009
The year 2009 will most likely expire without commemorating the centenary of a most momentous event in history that figures prominently as the main cause of the Great Financial Crisis of the century. This event was the so-called legal tender legislation in 1909. The bank notes of both the Banque de France and the Reichsbank of Germany were made legal tender by law, first in France and then, a very short time later, also in Imperial Germany. The rest of the world followed suit. In this way all roadblocks were removed in the way of financing the coming world war through credits and monetizing the resulting debt through the issuance of bank notes.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Central Banks Systematically Destroying Hard Earned Wealth Through Fiat Currencies / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Captain_Hook
Human beings are not designed to think in terms of loss, or at minimum, are not built to deal with it well psychologically. And if you look around one can see this in how we have structured our modern day society, with the economy counting on steady and consistent growth even if its not to be. Of course even though it’s not to be, we humans would prefer to be optimistic, and lie about the reality of the situation. Here, because of this desire, our bureaucracy feels they have sufficient license to lie about the economy in increasing measure; whatever it takes to avoid loss – loss of wealth, loss of jobs, and most importantly loss of the fictitious wealth most have saved in fictitious dollars ($’s). Oh yes, naturally when we speak of bureaucracy we cannot ignore the desire for power within the formula, however for our purposes we lump all these desires into one easily understandable obsession, that being the desire to increase and maintain one’s wealth, where today, this also means at any cost unfortunately.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Importance of Gresham's Money Law and Fed Bad Money / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Gary_North
"Bad money drives out good money." This aphorism has been known as Gresham's Law for almost 500 years. Sir Thomas Gresham never said it exactly like this. The statement is wrong in its familiar form.
Bad money does not drive out good money in a free market. The free market rewards producers of customer-satisfying products and services. Good money drives out bad money on a free market. The definition of bad money is money that the free market refuses to use. Gresham's law, as stated, is incorrect. The opposite is true.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Economists are Committed to the Expansion of Fiat Counterfeit Money / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Gary_North
When someone announces the discovery of a new oil field, most people rejoice. There are exceptions. Owners of existing oil wells don't. Growth-hating environmentalists don't. But for most people, a new oil field means an additional supply of a scarce resource. It means slightly lower prices for the resource. What is good for the person who owns the oil field is good for almost everyone else.
Monday, October 12, 2009
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Richard_C_Cook
It’s too late for anyone to pretend that the U.S. government, whether under President Barack Obama or anyone else, can divert our nation from long-term economic decline. The U.S. is increasingly in a state of political, economic, and moral paralysis, caught as it were between the “rock” of protracted recession and the “hard place” of terminal government debt.
Monday, October 05, 2009
Currency Crisis Lesson from War Ravaged Iraq / Economics / Fiat Currency
By: Edward_Gonzalez
There has been much ado concerning the Federal Reserve's doubling of the monetary base this past year. Many believe a currency crisis or hyperinflation of the dollar is imminent. Some go as far as to say that this crisis will destroy America.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Supply of Oxen at the IMF / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Professor_Emeritus
Some years ago I penned a paper with the title "The Supply of Oxen at the Fed". I am indebted to Alan Greenspan for a great line in one of his speeches, entitled The History of Money, from where I borrowed my title. He wrote: "If fiat money falters, we may have to go back to oxen as our medium of exchange. In that event, I trust, the Federal Reserve will have an adequate inventory of oxen." My article was designed to reassure Mr. Greenspan that the supply of oxen at the Fed was very secure indeed, in no small measure due to his stewardship.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Governments Competing to Keep Their Currencies Weak / Currencies / Fiat Currency
By: Bryan_Rich
Many governments are warning about the risks that may undermine economic recovery. And a lot of that concern is surrounding the value of their currency.
Since March, most currencies have risen sharply against the U.S. dollar. As investor appetite for risk has progressively improved, there has been less demand for the safe haven value of holding dollars and more demand for higher risk/higher return foreign currency denominated investments.
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