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Ron Paul at Financial Services Hearing 11/4/09

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In the United States neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities. Intrinsically, a dollar bill [world's reserve currency] is just a piece of paper, deposits merely book entries. Coins do have some intrinsic value as metal, but generally far less than their face value. What, then, makes these instruments - checks, paper money, and coins - acceptable at face value in payment of all debts and for other monetary uses? Mainly, it is the "confidence" people have that they will be able to exchange such money for other financial assets and for real goods and services whenever they choose to do so;
Of course, they [banks] do not really pay out loans from the money they receive as deposits. If they did this, no additional money would be created. What they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes in exchange for credits to the borrowers' transaction accounts.
-Modern Money Mechanics

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Keynes The Man
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Peter Joseph - When Normality Becomes Distortion
Peter Joseph - From Consequences to Solutions
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Peter Joseph - The Big Question [TEDx]
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Jacque Fresco - Resource Based Economy [TEDx]

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The Zeitgeist Movement Global Connect
Global Redesign Institute
Atlas Initiative Group
ZeitNews
Zeitgeist Media Project
Zeitgeist - The Movie
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
The Zeitgeist Media Festival

Extras:
Zeitgeist - Imagine
Zeitgeist The Summary
Zeitgeist Series Official Torrent
Awakening 1, 2, 3, 4
Automation is Here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Our Technical Reality

Books:
Resource-based Economy E-Book Pack
The First Civilization by Jas Garcha
The Lights In The Tunnel - Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford
Will a Resource Based Economy Work? [Article]
Better Than Owning by Kevin Kelly [Article]
Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein [Article]
Labor's Paradise Lose by Robert Skidelsky [Article]
Who's Kidding Whom? Is Sustainable Development Compatible With Western Civilization? by Peter Russell [Article]

Blog:
The Zeitgeist Movement Official Blog

YouTube Channel:
The Zeitgeist Movement Official Channel

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one.
-David Bohm

Recommended Watching

VideoNeat | Documentaries & Lectures
Resource-Based Documentaries
Finance Documentaries
Free Documentaries 1, 2, 3

Consciousness [Peter Russell]
The Global Brain
The White Hole in Time
The Primacy of Consciousness
From Science To God 1, 2, 3
Who Are We? 1, 2
2012 - Symbol for our times
What do you want?
What is the "I"?
Is there such thing as "Enlightenment"?
What is Nonduality?
Prisoners of Culture
Are Computers Conscious?
The Future of Consciousness
[Peter Russell Video Streams]

What is this "I"? You will, on close introspection, find that what you really mean by “I” is the ground stuff upon which all experiences and memories are collected.
-Erwin Schrödinger

Economics
Inside Job (Oscar's Best Documentary)
Four Horsemen
Money, Power and Wall Street
Meltdown 1, 2, 3, 4
Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis
97% Owned - Monetary Reform
The Party’s Over: How the West Went Bust 1, 2
RBS - Inside The Bank That Ran Out Of Money
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street
The Black-Scholes Formula 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Capitalism: A Love Story
Money As Debt
Money As Debt II - Promises Unleashed
Money As Debt III - Evolution Beyond Money
The Crisis of Credit Visualized
DEBTOCRACY
I.O.U.S.A
The Money Masters
The Secret of Oz
Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
-Issac Newton

Politics
For Liberty: How the Ron Paul rEVOLution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.
-Ron Paul

Earth
HOME
The Pale Blue Dot
The Known Universe
Earth Seen From The Moon
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
-Carl Sagan

Others
The Fuel
Garbage Warrior
The Living Matrix
The World of Buckminster Fuller
Athene's Theory of Everything
Free Energy - The Race to Zero Point

Austrian-Libertarianism
Ron Paul | Flix
Our Enemy, Inflation
My Battle Against the Fed
Prepare for the Worst
The Case for Liberty

Ron Paul Money Lecture Series
"What is Money?" with Joseph T. Salerno
"What is Constitutional Money?" with Edwin Vieira
"What About Money Causes Economic Crises?" with Peter Schiff

Ron Paul Fed Lecture Series
"Why Was the Fed Created?" with George Selgin
"What Does the Fed Do?" with James Grant
"What is the Fed's Future?" with Roger Garrison

"The Great Enabler: The Rise of the Federal Reserve and the Growth of Government" with Ron Paul

Peter Schiff
Why the Meltdown Should Have Surprised No One
Authors@Google
Mortgage Bankers Speech Nov/13/06
Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007

Tom Woods
Monetary Lessons from America's Past
Keynesians' Prediction and American History
Smashing Myths and Restoring Sound Money
Dynamics of the FED

I believe that it would be worth trying to learn something about the world even if in trying to do so we should merely learn that we do not know much... It might be well for all of us to remember that, while differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.
-Karl Popper

Inflation is a twisted magnifying lens through which everything is confused, distorted, and out of focus, so that few men are any longer able to see realities in their true proportions. Yet the ardor for inflation never dies. It would almost seem as if no country is capable of profiting from the experience of another and no generation of learning from the sufferings of its forbears. Each generation and country follows the same mirage. Each grasps for the same Dead Sea fruit that turns to dust and ashes in its mouth. For it is the nature of inflation to give birth to a thousand illusions.
-Henry Hazlitt

The only way to avert the onset of the depression-adjustment process is to continue inflating money and credit. For only continual doses of new money on the credit market will keep the boom going and the new stages profitable. Furthermore, only ever increasing doses can step up the boom, can lower interest rates further, and expand the production structure, for as the prices rise, more and more money will be needed to perform the same amount of work. Once the credit expansion stops, the market ratios are reestablished, and the seemingly glorious new investments turn out to be malinvestments, built on a foundation of sand.
-Murray N. Rothbard

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom expansion brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
-Ludwig von Mises

No central bank can, by the mere exercise of its credit-granting power, make something out of nothing, or save other banks from the disastrous consequences of their past policy. When a central bank does so it merely tends to make a bad matter worse.
-Henry Parker Willis

It is beyond belief that we know so little about how people get rich or poor, about how it is they come to dwell in comfort and health or die in penury and disease. Financial markets are the machines in which much of human welfare is decided; yet we know more about how our car engines work than about how our global financial system functions. We lurch from crisis to crisis. In a networked world, mayhem in one market spreads instantaneously to all others—and we have only the vaguest of notions how this happens, or how to regulate it. So limited is our knowledge that we resort, not to science, but to shamans. We place control of the world's largest economy in the hands of a few elderly men, the central bankers.
-Benoît B. Mandelbrot

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
-Alan Greenspan

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer;
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become 'profiteers,' who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery. Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose;
In the long run, we are all dead.
*When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease ... But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.
-John Maynard Keynes

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
For even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
-Xenophanes

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Ron Paul at Financial Services Hearing 11/4/09

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