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smithpae

Published Letters: 2

  • They hate gold because it cannot be manipulated!

    [Read the article: Peak gold and the gold standard]
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    For those of us old enough to remember, the reason Johnson gave for creating slug coins was that there was no longer enough gold and silver to go around; it was a lie then and the excuse that there is now too much is another lie. The only time in history that gold inflation occurred was when the Spanish looted all the gold in the Americas and took it back to Spain.

  • save your soul from slavery

    [Read the article: I'm a nude dancer trying to finish my Ph.D.]
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    Notes from an old fart: Most of my medical school classmates were up to their eyeballs in debt by the time they graduated. There were no jobs like you have available. I worked as a substitute teacher, and skipped my morning lectures. Me, I always knew that debt = slavery. Poverty and scrimping is much better. So is nude dancing.

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