Re: Cheney's Halliburton to Control Iraqi Oil?

James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
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Andreas Pour wrote:

> In the case of the Fed, if you would be so grand to tell me, as you are so
> expert at economics, how all the US money supply comes into being?  Let's start
> at day 0, and you can take a coconut island with two inhabitants as your
> example. 

If they were to use non-intrinsic money like the US, they would do it 
the same way -- like I said before -- by swapping debt for debt.

>>  The important thing to note here is that the Fed has only fiat money,
>> it is not backed by any assets, so keep that in mind with your 
>> "economics 101" analysis of our simple hypothetical island.

It isn't fiat money, it is debt money.

--
JRT


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