I am reposting a response I made in another thread and expanding it. People don't appreciate what it would mean to "go to a gold standard" per H.R.2435. The idea is that it doesn't matter how much money there is, they can set the ratio of gold to dollar at whatever they want. "However much there is in present day dollars. It doesn't matter."
That's the first problem, so let's look at that:
How Much Is Gold Worth
According to the official narrative, there are about 8,133 metric tons of gold in U.S. reserves. I doubt that is true, I think it has been mostly moved into private bankers hands, but we'll go with it. There are 32,150 troy oz. per metric ton. That means there are, in reserve:
8133 metric tons times 32150 troy oz/metric ton ~ 261 million troy oz.
As for the total money that exists, the official number (not that I trust it, but we'll go with it) is between 40 trillion (narrow money), 90 trillion (broad money) or 1.3 quadrillion (derivatives, investments, etc.). With the amount of naked short selling, I wouldn't be surprised if you could double or triple that, so upwards of 4 quadrillion.
Putting this into perspective, we get one U.S. gold backed dollar is equal to:
- narrow money: 6.5e-6 oz
- broad money: 2.91e-6 oz
- derivatives: 2.01e-7 oz
- short sales: 6.5e-8 oz
These numbers don't mean much, so let me try to put it into something that makes a little more sense. Here is a picture of 1g of gold. It's not the best picture since it doesn't show the whole hand, but it shows that it isn't very much. Carrying that around, it would be pretty darn easy to lose it. But let me give you an idea of what one U.S. gold backed dollar would look like:
- narrow money: 1/5000 of a gram
- broad money: 1/11,000 of a gram
- derivatives: 1/160,000 of a gram
- short sales: 1/500,000 of a gram
Even with narrow money, think about dividing that gram picture into 5000 parts, then try to find it in your pocket. With short sales, divide it into half a million parts. It's almost easier to start measuring dollars in atoms of gold.
That 1g sells for about $130. This suggests it should be worth between $5000 and $500,000 if we were to move to a "gold standard" as things stand today.
For reference, that translates to between $150,000 and $15,000,000 per troy oz in today's money.
Now on to the next problem. The dollars that exist aren't money, they are debt. If we go to a "gold standard" there will still be all the debt, and the interest on that debt, that belongs to Megabank. If we move to a "gold standard," all that debt either needs to be paid off, or needs to be wiped out. But where does all the money reside?
Where's The Money
If we just look at narrow money (bank accounts, bank notes, etc.) that's the stuff that people have "on hand" (not really, because it's mostly in the fractional reserve shenanigans, but close enough). But who has the most money in bank accounts? According to this, the median bank account in America (in 2019) was about $5000, and the average was $42,000. That is a HUGE discrepancy, which means that the people with all the money have far more than the average person. The people with all the money are, in general, the Aristocracy AKA the Cabal. If we use the median this amounts to about $1.7 trillion (5000 times 330M people in America). Most of the rest of that $40T of narrow money lies in the hands of the very rich.
However, if we look at derivatives (not to mention naked short selling money) ALL of that money is in the hands of Megacorp.
So no matter how you divide it, as things stand today, the gold goes into the hands of the same people that rule the world right now.
Paying Off The Debt
If we don't wipe out all debt, then all those debts need to be paid off. But money is debt. Money comes to be when a debt is created. That's what "printing" money means. A loan is taken out, in one column a credit is given. This is money. In the other column a debt is created.
Money = Debt
BUT, that's not what really happens. A debt is paid back at interest.
Money + Interest = Debt
So all the DEBT in the world is equal to all the money PLUS all of the interest it has accrued, i.e. there is more debt than there is money. The debt can't be paid off. So all of that gold will eventually end up in the hands of the PTB, PLUS we will remain debt slaves forever.
With the current financial system, no matter how you slice it, all the power remains exactly where it is if we move into a "gold standard."
The system must fail. There is no other choice.
www.kinesis.money is the answer. It's crypto that is 100% redeemable for physical. you can spend it with a debit card linked to your account and travel anywhere in the world with access memorized. The metal is in vaults located throughout the world in many different jurisdictions and out of any gov't control. It's audited twice a year.
I think this path makes sense, though I think it needs to be expanded to other assets, not just PMs. I also fear kinesis specifically becoming a monopoly.
Their business model (where they get a portion of each transaction) will inevitably lead to them holding all the money eventually, at least potentially. In a system with a fixed amount of something, if someone get's a tiny percent of it each year, eventually that adds up to the whole thing. Of course if they buy things, then it goes back out into the system, but the potential is there. Even if they hold a portion of the total (say 10%) they can create huge manipulations to the world's economy if the world is relying on the currencies they control.
Historically "hording" (as the above scenario is called) has been the cause of all "economic collapse" problems prior to fractional reserve lending. This is no small concern.
In that case, part of the audit needs to be making sure the salaries aren’t skyhigh and there’s no money laundering going on, and the fractions adjusted to cover expenses only.
This isn't about salaries. It's not what individuals hold. If the corporation holds the money, then the money can be manipulated.
Don't get me wrong. I think kinesis is a step in the right direction, but it can't be the whole solution. "Currency" (intermediary of exchange for barter) must be completely decentralized. There is no reason that stocks, for instance, can't be used as an intermediary of exchange. You should be able to walk to the grocery store and hand over one share of TMTG (for example) for your food purchase. There is no reason that can't be the case.
We can take things like art, land, cars, guns, or anything else that has value and isn't perishable and tie them to NFTs. By this path we can then exchange, in an "absolute ownership" way, on some market of our creation, all of our goods in a barter system.
Barter is the only way. A truly free market. NFTs allow for that path to be reasonable on a large scale. We still need to buy perishables, so not everything can be NFT'ed, but many things can. This solves the problems of hording and past manipulations. I'm not sure it solves everything, but I suggest it is a path to that.
I know a company that’s currently building a NFT marketplace….
You cannot do a Barter system that will work. Are you saying that if I wanted to get clothes.
I would need to find something in my house to trade for those clothes?
How about government supplying the transaction reconciliation and audit tools? Kind of like roads.
Why should government be in charge of any of that? "Government in charge" is exactly the problem. If it isn't a free market in total, it isn't a free market.
Why not just make a broader, decentralized system of barter. The fundamental problem is the reliance on a specific medium of exchange. THAT is what is exploitable. It creates a security vulnerability that is always exploited. That was WHY gold was created as a medium of exchange in the first place.
I get where you're coming from; I was just referring to the infrastructure of settlement. Carrying sacks of metal around is inconvenient sometimes.