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.
Just confiscate all their I’ll gotten gains $$$ and wipe the debt, execute and jail all the evil and break up all of their corporations and go back to good old fashioned free market capitalism.
End it there.
We never had a "free-market." it has never, not for one day, been free. At least not in any country we have ever heard of. It's probably free in some village in the Amazon rainforest, or Tibet, or something., but our history (European/America/Middle East, etc.) has never known what that means.
Capitalism is not "Free Market" anything. That is a lie. Demanding Capitalism is a captured market. There can be no "ism" in a Free Market, or rather, any ism is allowed in a Free Market.
If you want to make a company where the workers determine the means of production (Socialism Economic Model) a Free Market will decide your fate.
If you want to create a company where the workers determine the means of production and all workers get the same share of the profits (Communism Economic Model), have at it. The Market will decide your fate.
If you want to create a company where you take the capital you make and reinvest it into the company to make even more capital until you burst at the seams with unfettered growth (Capitalism) have at it, the Market will decide your fate.
If you want to just have a company where you don't worry about any of that shit, you just like selling your homemade chairs, and all you want is enough to buy bread, have at it, the Market will decide your fate.
A Free Market is not Capitalism. In fact, we live, and have always lived in a forced Capitalism, with a controlled Market. A Free Market can only exist in a world where people understand their own agency.
Not challenging that Fren you have explained it well I’m pointing to the obvious that the corporations need to be broken up - those same corporations that swallowed up the market in the first place effectively putting independent businesses out of business
I appreciate what you are saying. I have a tendency to overdo it when elaborating common misconceptions in our history of economics. I get frustrated when people use words that were designed to perpetuate the fraud. It's a frustrating research, and the fuckery I have found can be overwhelming at times. Sometimes I take it out on people who are agreeing with me. LOL
Yes, your proposed actions make sense. We really do need to blow up all the corporations. Not with bombs, but with information on who and what these people and their corporations really are, so that We The People are motivated to let them die in obscurity.