Sunday, November 9, 2014

Greenspan's Stunning Admission: "Gold Is Currency; No Fiat Currency, Including the Dollar, Can Match It"

For some reason, the Council of Foreign Relations, where ex-Fed-Chief Alan Greenspan spoke last week, decided the following discussion should be left out of the official transcript. We can perhaps understand why... as Gillian Tett concludes, "comments like that will be turning you into a rock star amongst the gold bug community."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Silver too...

Anonymous said...

Can't eat gold ... can't even buy a tin of peaches with gold - unless there is one tin to spare.

Ammo - and the means to deliver it - is the only currency which will pry that last tin of peaches away from the former possessor!

III

Anonymous said...

Best investment in an economic crisis is not gold or silver. It is edible commodities. That's what you would use the gold to buy, so just buy the commodities instead. If you are a little short on ammo, then buy some more ammo. You can never have too much ammo or food.

- Old Greybeard

Anonymous said...

The PM's are not for use during "the troubles", but for after. The current money is worthless except for the US-Mil forcing overseas use and oil purchases. Users of gold and silver (and copper/nickel/platinim/palladium etc) have no need to trust a 3rd party (official issuer) to "back" a currency. No counterparty risk. The metal IS the money, upgraded into a convenient guaranteed weight in coin mostly by pretty-trustworthy national mints.

Agree completely about having personal stocks of water-food-tools-clothes-fuel-tribe-garden-ammo-training-etc. during bad times without supply/trade.

pdxr13

KBCraig said...

I see Greenspan has come full circle.

In 1963, he wrote in favor of gold and lambasted the Federal Reserve. His essay was included in Ayn Rand’s “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”.