Habe zum Betreff in meinem Archiv noch folgenden netten Eintrag vom 03.01.2006 gefunden:
b2) Money - What is money?
"Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost."
Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.
November 21, 2002
Alan Greenspan, 1966 :
”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 "hidden" confiscation of wealth.
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.”
Alan Greenspan, Mai 1999 Testimony before US House Banking Committee
"Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world."
R.W. Bradford writes in Liberty magazine that, as Fed chairman, "Greenspan (once) recommended to a Senate committee that all economic regulations should have fixed lifespans. Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) accused him of 'playing with fire, or indeed throwing gasoline on the fire,' and asked him whether he favored a similar provision in the Fed's authorization. Greenspan coolly answered that he did. Do you actually mean, demanded the senator, that the Fed 'should cease to function unless affirmatively continued?' 'That is correct, sir,' Greenspan responded."
Bradford continues, "The Senator could scarcely believe his ears. ’Now my next question is, is it your intention that the report of this hearing should be that Greenspan recommends a return to the gold standard?'
Greenspan responded, 'I've been recommending that for years, there's nothing new about that.”
Man kann einer Idee anhängen und gleichzeitig genau das Gegenteil tun.
Am Ende seiner Karriere hat der Kongressabgeordnete Ron Paul aus Texas sich Alan Greenspan zur Brust genommen. Er überreichte ihm ein Exemplar von "Gold und ökonomische Freiheit", einem Essay, den Greenspan 1966 für Rands "Objectivist" geschrieben hatte.
Wesentlicher Inhalt: Geld ohne Golddeckung ist eine Art Betrug an der Öffentlichkeit.
"Möchten Sie ein Dementi anfügen?" fuhr Paul fort.
"Nein", antwortete der Mann, der mehr ungedecktes Geld in Umlauf gebracht hatte als jeder andere. "Ich habe diesen Artikel kürzlich noch einmal gelesen – und ich würde daran kein einziges Wort ändern."
Grüße
