i know this is a little off topic for the thread but...
no shit right, have you ever heard of robert mugabe, the leader of zimbabwe? i guess they used the same central banking system and fiat currency that we use, and through printing money without backing he hyperinflated their economy an they had to make a $100 million dollar bill and allot of them. now zimbabwe runs off strait gold, no gold no food no nothing.
imagine if we never left the gold standard how far better off our country woul be. the constitutional definition of a dollar is 1.6 grams of gold. todays value per gram is down $.58 at $38.26, some inflationary math $38.26 x 1.6= $61.22 should be the purchasing power of a single dollar bill. in 1933 before the federal reserve bank made gold possesion illegal (they forced citizens to turn in all their gold; other than jewelry) and removed the gold standard you could buy the same goods for $1 as today for over sixty. from 1933 to today the dollar has lost over 97% of its value. imagine if in 1933 you saved your life savings in cash in a shoe box, by now you have lost your ass. we are all being constantly slowly robbed.
Yes, that was when the US gov't actually held all the gold, now the federal reserve has confiscated all the gold from fort knox and if we did now revert back to a gold standard they could control the value of it since they hold 75% of the worlds gold. It would be no different than the current situation. A fiat currency issued by congress alone controlled by not a single banker interest is the most probable solution.
I wonder if the guards in the watchtowers at fort knox know that there is no gold inside. If they did, they must feel worthless knowing 8 hours of their day is just for show.
"The Money Masters"
Watch it, greatest story ever told