Hmmm dictionary definitions are silly and shouldn't matter, good comeback....sounds like something a nutty conspiracy theorist would say............
You don't get it dood, they get paid back by being able to purchase anything in the world that they want for FREE.....
a gold certificate does not represent value unless it is redeemable....the value is in what it is REDEEMABLE FOR......A silver certificate represents value to anyone that believes it can be redeemed for silver, it has no value to you or me really because we know that Legal Tender Laws have made it not redeemable in specie...that is to say the legal tender is no longer redeemable in specie lawful money.........I wouldn't buy one for silver spot, neither would you, Joe might, based on the wording of the note and thinking it is worth a silver dollar.....a gold or silver certificate can be just a fiat if there is no deposit to cover them....if you are holding a gold certificate and everyone cashes them in at once, you are playing musical chairs and some people will be fucked when the music stops.........
A note reps what is on deposit, so a fed note reps a bond.. So what's the bond rep? Money right? Does the bond rep FRN's? If it did the Treasury would simply issue FRN's on their own issuing authority...just like they do with coins.........so WHAT IS MONEY? Clearly not FRN's.
As to the 100 sitting in the Treasury from your earlier example that you claim has no obligation.......after your example, The Treasury deposits 100 somewhere in the real world and receives real goods or services for 100 that was created with no production associated with the 100....the 100 contributed NOTHING to the production of goods.....The Treasury is now able to engage in the act of trading nothing, for something....pulling goods and services out of the supply by 100.......AND inflating by 100...simultaneously.......less goods same money= price increase.....less goods and more money=relative price stays the same, this explains your steak....and why you think the bankers are the good guys.
but you argue that spending nothing for something stimulates production, creating something and facilitating wealth generation where there was none before, enabling the greatest standard of living increase in world history....no harm no foul you say obviously the averages all work out and everyone wins.....but resources(goods) have been moved away from real wealth creators that use it productively (ice cream company or sirloin company).....this new demand is artificial and is the crack I mentioned earlier. It encourages risky behavior and causes
misallocations of resources that real demand from real markets would not permit. It promotes speculative markets that could not exist otherwise.....
so this new 100 increase in the money supply(inflation) set in motion the exchange of something for nothing...the real wealth creators, ya know the little guy that worked for his notes, is able to buy less because there is 100 less goods in the pool.....and he buys less with more (inflated) money, so it seems everything is the same....real incomes of wealth generators fall not because prices rise but because the money supply increased and the Government and the Fed were able to divert goods to themselves without making any contribution to production......before prices rose due to inflation no less.....the example I gave you of the one silver dollar minimum wage demonstrates this real loss in wealth and purchasing power lol
if 100 increase in money supply happens to be in line with 100 increase in goods leaving average price the same, inflation has still occurred. Fed and Gov still increased the money pool and goods have been diverted to them and all their friends at a cost of ZERO to them. The redistribution of wealth has still occurred even if average prices remain or, indeed even if production increases and average price falls.
This ponzi-scheme rely's on continuous borrowing to remain viable.
A note represents value is your argument, na nan a boo boo stick your head in doo doo.... when it clearly does not; and in fact is even defined as the opposite to anyone who cares to look at a dictionary, even a non legal or economic language dictionary such as Webster's defines it as such...
Remember speaking of 100 per barrel oil? Keeping in mind that peak production of oil was reached around the new millennium........ Let's see what happens when those notes used to be backed by something, I believe that low flat line on the left is only the pseudo gold standard......
Looks like 1700% price increase there even considering such a shabby, shameful thing as a CPI....