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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 08:43 AM Original message |
Why the Gold Standard Can Not Return |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 08:48 AM Response to Original message |
1. I don't like fiat currency, but I don't like the gold standard either, for the reasons you mention. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
2. Limits on a finite planet...makes sense |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I would agree except for one thing - what limit is there on intellectual property? |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 09:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Intellectual property |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 09:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. So people should be encouraged to invent or create how? |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 10:13 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. They shouldn't |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 10:26 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Yeah, that's right. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 10:37 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Intellectual confusion |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 10:42 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Perhaps the toaster was a bad choice. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 11:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. OK, I shove it |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 11:43 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Without the patents and trade secrets we couldn't afford to make the gadgets. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 01:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. In that case |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. How do you mix an album with tortoise shells and hairs from a horse? |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 09:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Sure, the problem is that we don't like limits |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 10:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Heh |
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BraneMatter (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
6. It would not solve the problem |
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pnutbutr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
10. Also |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
16. I figure depleted uranium would make a pretty good substitute... |
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garybeck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-24-08 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. and gold mining is not a very environmental practice |
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