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  • Re: Why Gold?

    [quote user="Norak"]Wouldn't it be better to simply buy land in the country, stockpile on food, guns, water, and so on? You can't eat gold.[/quote] Possibly. However, not everybody can buy land or grow their own vegetables. Therefore, gold serves the rest of us who need to trade. The...
    Posted to Economics Questions by Charles Anthony on Mon, Feb 4 2008
  • Re: How would a country get away from a fiat currency and into a hard currency?

    [quote user="Edgar729"] [quote user="Paul Grad"] To get to a hard currency from a fiat currency would be fairly simple, in fact we already have the essentials in place currently. My idea is this: Pass a Constitutional amendment requiring that all U.S. commodity exchanges regulated...
    Posted to Economics Questions by Paul Grad on Thu, Oct 4 2007
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