MONEY- the scam

[Norsemaiden]

What is money? It was worth something real when it was made of precious metal, but now it's worthless metal or paper - merely a token to be exchanged for something of worth.

On the banknotes in Britain it says that the note is a "promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of" x pounds (in gold/silver). So you are supposed to be able to claim your gold any time you like? Not the case. The writing is only a relic, it isn't valid any more, since the gold standard was abolished for nearly every country after WWI. (I wrote to the bank of England and they confirmed this.) Roosvelt severed the connection between dollars and gold in 1934.

It began with the (Hebrew) goldsmiths, the ancestors of the present day bankers, back as far as ancient Rome. People who had some gold took it to the goldsmiths for safekeeping. The goldsmith gave the customer a claim receipt for the gold. These receipts could be used to reclaim the gold by anyone who brought it back - and could be exchanged for goods in the meantime. The receipts began to circulate as paper money. People realised it was easier for them to carry on trade by passing these receipts and never bothering to withdraw the gold itself. Their faith in the value of the paper was based on the idea that it could be redeemed for gold any time.

Thus the goldsmiths discovered the key principle of banking: "fractional reserve". With few people ever claiming back the gold and trading using receipts instead, it occured to the goldsmiths that they could loan out gold, that didn't really belong to them, with interest charges added.

So: money out of thin air - with interest! They didn't even actually loan out the gold itself, but once again issued receipts which were for the loan, and which once again went into circulation.

The goldsmith was in fact writing out claim receipts for several times as much gold as he had available, and no body was any the wiser!

The moneylender had struck a fabulous gold mine without having to so much as turn a shovel full of dirt!

"Fractional reserve" the Gimmick. "Fractional reserve" refers to the fact that the moneylender only needed to reserve a fraction of gold - enough to cover any day to day withdrawals. This worked fine as long as there was no sudden demand (run) on the gold that was not his - only for safekeeping. Sometimes there were such panics and when the goldsmith couldn't give people their gold they were hanged from the nearest tree. Over time, those that were not hanged got very very rich.

In the middle ages many countries outlawed Jews from engaging in a number of trades and businesses; allegedly because they feared monopolisation of those trades. Yet money is the nerve centre of business. In time, together with monopolising moneylending came control of every worthwhile business.
The bankers were now lending money to governments as well as individuals. With a fierce loyalty, they maintained a monopoly of banking, issuance of money, financing, stock markets and gold supply.

It is an awesome power to have and it led to domination of the means of propaganda (media) and every nerve centre of power, including government itself.
To cut the long story short: now the claim receipts won't even get you your gold back. Impressive achievement or what?

 

[speed]

Norsemaiden, again, I find your hebrew goldsmith claim in Rome to be highly spurious, and totally unfounded. In fact, you are giving too much credit to the Jews, who had little to do with foundation of banking or currency.

In fact, I am growing tired of refuting your ridiculous claims, and I am closing this thread. This is no place to spread far-fetched conspiracy theories, and poorly researched and understood ideas.

Rome and even ancient Greece had a very elaborate and in Rome's case regulated banking system. Greek temples and other institutions had everything from currency exchange, loans, deposits and even credit. The Romans furthered the Greeks advances.

I suggest you start reading actual historical works about economics and banking. If you did, you would know the Jews had nothing to do with any of the claims you so state. I suggest you read Tenney Frank's An Economic History of Rome. Its a multivolume set, but the standard for economic history in the Classical world. I aslo suggest you start reading about the adoption of the gold standard and its pros and cons; keynes wrote a number of articles on the subject, and there are a number of libertarian economists advocating the return of the Gold Standard. Remember, the Gold Standard wsnt adopted until the 184o's by Britain, and the 1870's-80's by the rest of the Western world.

Furthermore, modern banking was created by the Italian Pitti's and Medici's, then eventually made its way to the Jewish Fuggers and Rothchilds.

In the case of currency, the chinese were the first to use paper currency, and the Swedes were the first in Europe in the 17th century.

Finally, you failed to tie the idea of fractional reserves into our current banking system, that is still in essence, based on the idea that each bank, still is required to reserve a fraction of its borrowed money--even if it is not in gold. Hence, the fractional reserves are still very much a part of every country's banking system.

I suggest editing the scope and ideas presented in this thread. If you wished to discuss the change to the gold standard or fractional reserves, then you did a very poor and incredibly biased job of presenting it. If you wish to discuss what was known as usury and the historical nature of money, then you need another partially fact-based thread. And finally, with almost every single post, you reference some wild anti-semitic theory. This has really got to stop. I dont see a problem making these comments every once in a while, but not 90% of the time: be it from sex, to genetics, to well everything you post.

Now, I dont want to lose you from the board, nor your take on many ideas and issues, but please, try not to be so culturally offensive, and prone to these conspiracies. Please!