Insulated Economies
Our rights are being taken without our permission. The value of our dollar is evaporating without a massive protest or riot. Troops are amassing in the United States and not one lawsuit has been filed against the unlawful use of troops. Congress has been threatened with martial law so the globalists traitors can institute a world currency out of a global depression. We know the handwriting on the wall. The world economy is set to collapse.
What can we do? Why don't we emulate the original revolutionaries and survive without globalist banks? I'll give an example:
-Instead of buying food from the local Walmart find a local grocer at www.localharvest.org, or buy long term storage food that's normally alot less expensive and healthier then grocery food. Ask if they can accept gold, or silver or make a local currency.
-Take all money out of the banks, except whatever you're comfortable for short term living, and put it into precious metals
-Get a notary and a bunch of friends together who invest in metals and become your own "banks". The notary signs off what you have in gold and silver and your friends are given credit up to whatever limit you want. There is an online system at http://ripplepay.com that offers this solution.
-In your community issue your own currency with script backed by friends metal holdings.
This idea could go beyond food to finance inexpensive, independant energy generation devices as seen in this site: http://www.44power.com/infowars/
Or it could finance anything the community of friends needs. An insulated economy could preserve your neighborhood while around your area ghost towns spring up. The power of this system is not only it's backing by precious metals, but also it's locality. Unlike Bernard Von Nothaus who had a central depository that was easily raided your "bank" would not necessarily be in any specific location, it would just be backed by your word (that people can sue for misrepresentation in court). Everyone would communicate about funds through sites like ripplepay, or twitter, or flycast or not online but by flyer or phone call-whatever your group decides. A truly decentralized, empowering banking system.
The solution to a global enslavement currency when the politicians don't work is to become an insulated, local economy and to get out of debt. This can only happen if people get off the grid and connect with their community. There is hope to avoid an american catastrophe. The American Empire, however, will have to fail while the American Republic holds steady.
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Local economies are going to happen anyway
I think that in the event of a global/national collapse, local markets are going to just show up. People need things and they will just start swapping stuff. Markets are driven by demand. You don't have to be an economist to understand this. People want what is valuable and are not going to part with their resources unless they are getting value. That is why Japanese cars sell so well here: the consumer gets more value from a Honda or a Toyota. They are decently priced and you can drive until the wheels fall off. It is amazing that our government and the American car companies just can't seem to get that through their thick skulls. But, I digress...
I don't think that local markets will appear in any force until they have to. What changes human behavior is necessity. It is unlikely people will start creating currency or do anything in that direction until the dollar really has lost all of its value. What I do think does make sense is to come up with a service or product that people are going to need in collapsed economy. Do you sew or can you fix a car? Do end up with bumper crops of vegetables every year? Think of the things you would find in a medieval market: fruits and vegetables, livestock, tools, cloth, bread, dairy products. Can you produce raw materials? Wool or lumber?Those are the kinds of things I think about.
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Wise people would only accept silver/gold certificates
over the physical metal if they had faith that the reserve was very, very safe from theft or confiscation. How would you assure them of its safety? You would have to have a local Fort Knox with multiple redundant security levels and defense systems. That's a pretty expensive outlay to justify a paper currency over actual coin and bullion.
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who would be the
who would be the gauranture(if that is even a word) of the certificates!
"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money. --Mark Twain
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.” (Prov. 22:3; 27:12 KJV)
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