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No more Mastercard ad spoofs after this one ... I swear.

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That's the ultimate

credit card

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keep diggin if you like money.

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Gives

"Mastercard" a whole new meaning.

An even 50.

Classic

Even

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39 Coins!

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Cash money fool! We're good as gold.

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dugg

Cule

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Robert P. Murphy

is that you?

?

No, but I just googled him.

B-U-

M-P

I'm sure most of you guys have read this ...

but I'll post it anyway.
From 1966:

"The holder of a government bond or of a bank deposit created by paper reserves believes that he has a valid claim on a real asset. But the fact is that there are now more claims outstanding than real assets. The law of supply and demand is not to be conned. As the supply of money (of claims) increases relative to the supply of tangible assets in the economy, prices must eventually rise. Thus the earnings saved by the productive members of the society lose value in terms of goods. When the economy's books are finally balanced, one finds that this loss in value represents the goods purchased by the government for welfare or other purposes with the money proceeds of the government bonds financed by bank credit expansion. 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." - Alan Greenspan

AKA

priceless fixing