So where have I been?

You may have noticed no posts to this place in a long time.  That's because I am working again.  Somehow, by my trusting people that call themselves experts in money, and by just some dumb ideas of my own, I have managed in just 12 years to turn about 8 million $ of savings into almost nothing!  So I guess my money ideas must be full of bunk no?  Well actually not.  I didn't listen to my own advice - I knew gold and silver were where I should have my money but I got fooled into thinking it wouldn't grow there.  Fact is, had I taken that 8M$ and put it into cash and later gold at the right time, I would now be worth about 100M$ - but that isn't really getting rich - that is just by holding a commodoty that holds its value better than our cash.
Several posts to this blog talk about money and I still believe all of it.
So now I am working for a living again, back into the rat race and at an age that is not nearly as fun to be working at when I was 30.  We all pay for our sins, individually and collectively.
Well, you learn as you go and life is short.
A friend just posted this in my email showing graphically how in debt we are which I thought was well worth a link here.

Principles In Liberty 44

The Thoughts of E. C. ReigalPart 2

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Recorded on 9/9/2009

E.C. Reigel - Chapter 3

00:45 Issuer of money is the first and last link.
01:20 Requirements: Limitation of issuance and Competition. Without these prerequisites, we don't have money.
01:55 State issuance of money is the same as counterfiet except its worse than normal counterfiet.
02:38 Government issue of fiat currency does NOT increase the money supply it merely inflates the existing money/wealth.
03:10 Only money in the market effects prices. Money in the bank doesn't appear till traded.
03:40 Government thus induces savings to defer the day of reconing.
04:05 Obama is doing just this.
05:15 Mock money issues taxes invisibly and disturbs true exchange.
05:49 Democracy Defeated:
06:00 This process is invisible theft which ends up being blamed on business.
08:00 Fleeing admition of the original sin causes government to flee to expedient tyrany to escape its responsibility for ecconomic woes.
09:30 WIthout the ability to inflate money, the government would be forced to immediately pay for its expenses and the electorate would be alerted to its waste.
09:35 How the money power is used to force the people into wars.
11:04 Monitary power is man's sovreign power.
11:33 Constitutional history regarding the money power. The power to borrow is the power to create money.
13:10 The power to coin money has been misinterpreted as the power to make money. Not abused till the Civil War.
15:00 Money starts in banks.
15:30 Why government can't issue honest money - it doesn't sell a voluntary "service".
17:00 How government appears to create money rather than tax it.
18:26 The monetary Union of Peoples:
19:00 The state is the bad guy, not the good guy. But this comes about from the general ignorance of money.
20:20 Interstate wars are more the result of nations trying to prevent the natural unification of economies.
20:50 Counterfiet issues destabilize national money systems making unification more difficult.
22:00 Once a natural money system is universally adopted, world peace follows naturally.
22:30 We only need the absence of government interference to implement such a system.
23:50 End of chapter 3; My comments
24:18 Case in point: Norfed
24:58 An option I thought of: Honey

Principles In Liberty 43

The Thoughts of E. C. ReigelPart 2

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Recorded on 8/28/2009

The Thoughts of E. C. Reigel Part 2
00:37 Chapter 2 - The difference between barter, credit and money.
04:41 Money and Credit are not the same - my comments
07:07 Money - the organizer
09:21 Money has a lifespan
12:07 System and Unit
12:10 Money has two meanings - the concept and the instrument
10:04 To think of currency as money and checks as substitute money is profoundly mistaken.
17:34 Defn. of money
17:51 My comments
19:20 Government gets into every exchange.
19:44 Income tax is getting into an exchange.
20:20 Federal Reserve is getting into the creation of money and the interest forces the creation of more money.
21:50 Dave Ramsey - good guy but may be leading us down the wrong path
25:05 What Reigal is teaching should be taught in every high school.
26:40 California's IOUs = theft becasue they won't take what they dish out.
27:49 We can use contract to make our own money.
29:25 Prerequisite to this working is integrety.

Principles In Liberty 42

The Thoughts of E. C. ReigelPart 1

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Recorded on 7/25/2009

00:00 Intro - This is AMAZING! Check it out.
00:44 PDF of the book
01:50 Chapter 1: What is Freedom?
08:00 some comments
09:10 The enforcer of the natural law - competition
14:50 The breaker of the natural law - the state
21:55 some comments
22:33 Self Government - commerce - the only true democracy
27:40 some comments
28:53 What is freedom - conclusion of chapter 1
33:21 closing comments

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Recorded on 5/5/2008

An interview with Larry Langdon

01:08 Justice - a fundamental human idea
02:00 Hillary Clinton sets this off
02:47 Being able to make your own decisions is fundamental to growth
03:35 Universal complacency happens over time due to the helps of societies.
05:00 the FED and money
07:35 The Money Masters mentions a good solution.
08:35 Bill Davis - example of a optimist concerning the FED
09:07 The Three World Wars
09:19 We are in WWIII now.
10:06 The creature from Jekyl Island by G. Edward Griffin
10:31 Confessions of an Ecconomic Hit Man
11:10 CIA enslaves countries with debt.
12:35 Larry knows a personal friend that saw this happen first hand.
13:55 America is being foreclosed on.
14:10 Jessie Ventura "Maybe those fences along the border aren't to keep them out but to keep us in".
15:47 Federal vs National citizen.
16:15 Tom Ridge of Homeland Security says it was under national government rather than the federal government
17:12 Unknowns being incarcerated without due process in the US
18:03 1/2 of all people are in prison for victimless crimes.
18:42 25% of the worlds prisoners are in US prisons
19:15 Racketeering is going on.
21:25 Spitzer issue becomes a smokescreen - he had ordered an investigation of 911
21:50 People are maletable - capable of being prosecuted at any time.
23:36 None of the current presidential candidates are skull and bones...
24:11 People that were rich enough to avoid taxes - Global Prosperity Group
24:49 David Ike
25:15 Creating Problems and then offering the pre-fabricated solution.
26:00 My luck on trading - its like they know what I am about to do.
27:50 Later on, some other friends came over and Larry talked a bit about a real estate transaction.
33:30 7 Statutes sited by the escroe agency to Larry as reason to bring in third parties (HUD) into the transaction.
36:50 The issue of the government hearing the grievences of the people.
38:03 Fed board chairman said - "we need a complete collapse and then we can rebuild it up again."
38:50 Fed gets Wall Street.
39:20 Most judges know we are bankrupt and in foreclosure.
40:00 Money Masters reference again.
40:42 Dictatorship is the most efficient form of government - especially with a good dictator.
41:40 Use US notes to get us out of this.
42:26 Kennedy family and inheritance taxes
43:00 Car title transfer trick