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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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

Monday, August 31, 2009

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.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

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