Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
Gold is a currency
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency … and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
When paper money crashes
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
No such thing as responsible paper money management
The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted ‘responsible money management’ for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management … The record taken, as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation, and monetary chaos.
Abuses of paper money
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.
History of disaster
The history of paper money is an account of abuse, mismanagement, and financial disaster.
Paper money cheats the common man
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
The effect of paper money
But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall assuredly give a fatal stab to our national credit in its infancy. Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
Liable to abuse
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is permitted.
Toxic femininity
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.