6/22/2011 Portland, Oregon – Pop in your mints…
We search for answers, yet the questions are trumping them right now. This phenomenon is inherent to human existence. People are always chasing after knowledge. In the
Bible, the book of
Daniel speaks of our times when the Angel tells
Daniel in his vision:
“But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.”
Daniel 12:4, King James Version
A little bit of knowledge sparks a thirst for more knowledge, which, once quenched, sparks an even greater thirst for knowledge. Like
Carmex, which soothes one’s chapped lips for a time only to dry them out again, which appears to create a perpetual “need” for to the product, knowledge provides answers and understanding which lead the enquirer to even more questions, and the cycle repeats itself.
The phenomenon expresses itself in markets in the form of a search for a “
final price”. In a free, unfettered marketplace, this price, in money terms, represents all that is known about the value of the good that is being exchanged for money at that point in time. However, this “final price” is in and of itself a new data point to be considered, as is the exchange of goods which it represents. This changing data necessarily creates a new “
final price” which, by definition, takes into account all factors know about the value of the good and so on.
Ever since we decided to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the chase for knowledge has continued and will continue until
Jesus returns.
But what does this have to do with the
US Dollar, let alone Beer?
We are glad you asked as we were getting a bit side-tracked. Our personal search for knowledge has brought us to the most recent of the endless questions that need to be answered:
When will
Central Bank Currency Regimes and Sovereign Governments admit they are bankrupt and be allowed to default?
This is an
URGENT and very important question as the entire financial world cannot progress until this question has been answered.
To be clear, most western governments and their
Central Bank run currency regimes are now technically in default. They have been ever since they began to “solve” liquidity problems via money printing or “
Quantitative Easing” (QE for short).
The acts of
Quantitative Easing, which have been embarked upon by the
US,
Euro, and
Japanese Central Banks is only necessary when the faith based currency regime in question has failed. The necessity to print money which is not demanded by the market nor provided at market prices provides concrete proof that people are no longer willing to further enslave themselves by incurring additional
debt.
As we have explained in this space before,
debt is the lifeblood of the currency regime. In these mindless confiscatory monetary systems where the only way to create money is to coax someone else into incurring debt, shrinking debt is the equivalent of someone pushing the currency regime’s self destruct button.
But instead of recognizing this fact for what it was, a failure of the system, much of western civilization continues in willful denial. Soon, however, everyone will be rushing for the exits.
But we promised you a beer, fellow taxpayer, so crack yourself a cold one (on your own dime, of course, this is, after all, a free newsletter) and see if you tell us what the
Federal Reserve Notes that we currently use as money and
Schlitz Beer have in common?
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| What do Schlitz and the Federal Reserve Note have in Common? |
Need a hint? Think quality, or lack thereof.
Give up? Here are the answers, as always, we invite inquiring fellow taxpayers to add to this list by commenting below.
First, both
Federal Reserve Notes and
Schlitz were once the
gold standards of their product class (currency and beer, respectively).
Federal Reserve Notes took the place of
US Dollars in 1913 and maintained the
US Dollar’s tradition of quality and enjoyed increased market share until finally overtaking the
British Pound Sterling as the world’s currency of choice. In the beer industry,
Schlitz rose to overtake rival
Pabst as the most popular beer in the world in 1902.
In the 1970s, the
Schlitz brewing process was changed to make use of high temperature fermentation in order to further speed production. This change and subsequent changes in the formula had disastrous results which came to a head in 1982. On the
US Dollar front, then President Richard Nixon began to tinker with the
US Dollar formula in the 70s, namely making the
US Dollar no longer convertible into
gold. This watering down of the dollar supply had disastrous effects which also came to a head in the early 1980’s.
Both
Schlitz and the
US Dollar then continued to generally decline in status for close to 30 years.
In 2008, however, the old
Schlitz formula was discovered and has been revived by Stroh’s Brewing Company to give new life to an old beer that everyone had left for dead.
Circa 2011, the
US Dollar is still yearning to return to the “
gold convertibility” formula that made it so insanely popular for the first half of the twentieth century.
Is there anyone who can find it?
Stay Fresh!
David Mint
Email:
davidminteconomics@gmail.com
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Key Indicators for Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Copper Price per Lb: $4.10
Oil Price per Barrel: $95.06 A FAILURE TO INFLATE
Corn Price per Bushel: $6.07 MONETARY POLICY IS NOT WORKING
10 Yr US Treasury Bond: 2.99%
FED Target Rate: 0.09% FED IN PERMANENT DESPERATION MODE
Gold Price Per Ounce: $1,549 BENEFITING FROM PERMANENT UNCERTAINTY
MINT Perceived
Target Rate*: 2.25%
Unemployment Rate: 9.1%
Inflation Rate (CPI): 0.2%
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 12,163
M1 Monetary Base: $1,921,900,000,000 RED ALERT!!!
M2 Monetary Base: $9,084,400,000,000 YIKES!!!
*See
MINT Perceived Economic Effect Rate Chart at bottom of blog. This rate is the FED Target rate with a 39 month lag, representing the time it takes for the FED Target rate changes to affect the real economy. This is a 39 months head start that the FED member banks have on the rest of us on using the new money that is created.
