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Dollar reserves vs Gold reserves
murchr
#1 Posted : Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:29:26 PM
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Which of the two is more important and why do they (world bank) keep insisting that we need to raise our dollar reserve? Why not Gold?
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kyt
#2 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 8:47:18 AM
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Gold anytime i think WB just wants to mess us up!! the value of gold will always go up. its a rare commodity.
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hisah
#3 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:33:22 AM
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If you were running a fiat currency system i.e. backed by nothing would you want to hear about gold reserves? In a fiat currency system you can print as much money as you want out of thin air as you want. Can you print gold? In this case any money master wouldn't want anything to do with gold reserves or gold backed money.

Bring back the gold standard, but the immediate consequence would be a major burst of the current global debt bomb. Cool smile
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mkeiy
#4 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:32:09 PM
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hisah wrote:
If you were running a fiat currency system i.e. backed by nothing would you want to hear about gold reserves? In a fiat currency system you can print as much money as you want out of thin air as you want. Can you print gold? In this case any money master wouldn't want anything to do with gold reserves or gold backed money.

Bring back the gold standard, but the immediate consequence would be a major burst of the current global debt bomb. Cool smile


If i'm not getting it wrong, you are for gold reserve with the only downside being the immediate adverse effect on debt.
I also think we should go for both dollar and gold reserve,a third of gold and two thirds dollar. The most ideal situation would be more of gold than dollar, but with our current trade deficit, dollar reserves are called for but not 100% of our reserves.
Gold reserves will bring in appreciation of reserves overtime.
murchr
#5 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:00:54 PM
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There is this talk that the value of the $ is pegged on the gold that the US has, and there is a possibility that the gold is not there or its over stated. Now, if its true that the US doesnt have the gold that they claim to have, where can we place the dollar?
"There are only two emotions in the market, hope & fear. The problem is you hope when you should fear & fear when you should hope: - Jesse Livermore
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hisah
#6 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:25:53 PM
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murchr wrote:
There is this talk that the value of the $ is pegged on the gold that the US has, and there is a possibility that the gold is not there or its over stated. Now, if its true that the US doesnt have the gold that they claim to have, where can we place the dollar?

The USD is no longer backed by gold thanks to one Richard Nixon back in 1971.

@mkeiy - I'm for gold reserves and as well as a hybrid basket of currencies as a reserve. This way one nation's economy does not determine the direction for everyone.
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murchr
#7 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:14:17 PM
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@hisah thanks for the info
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Cde Monomotapa
#8 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:59:13 AM
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This yellow metal is the next Tulip...haiya..
Horton
#9 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2012 8:09:49 AM
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Everyone should buy a PAMP gold bar. Inflation proof and u can even buy at around 20k for a 5g bar

Compare to world currencies over a 10 year period and u will see why


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hisah
#10 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:05:49 AM
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Cde Monomotapa wrote:
This yellow metal is the next Tulip...haiya..

Read the WGC report for 2011 and see how CBs have been net buyers of gold since 2010 hand over fist.
If you think gold is the dutch tulips then buy silver. You can thank me later in 2014. Are you aware gold/silver bank accounts have been established by chingland for its citizens to diversify from USD. When the gold/silver asian comex takes the market away from the fraudulent US & UK comex, the price rating will be interesting.
Keep watching smile
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kizee1
#11 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:21:38 PM
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hisah wrote:
Cde Monomotapa wrote:
This yellow metal is the next Tulip...haiya..

Read the WGC report for 2011 and see how CBs have been net buyers of gold since 2010 hand over fist.
If you think gold is the dutch tulips then buy silver. You can thank me later in 2014. Are you aware gold/silver bank accounts have been established by chingland for its citizens to diversify from USD. When the gold/silver asian comex takes the market away from the fraudulent US & UK comex, the price rating will be interesting.
Keep watching smile



silver has many more commerical uses than gold, gold is just a shiny metal, silver reserves have shrunk drastically fyg..ratio of gold to silver reserves is at a historic low yet ratio of gold price to silver at an all time high
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