Can anyone name a time in history gold had no value?
Can you name a time in history when the United States dollar had no value?
Can anyone name a time in history gold had no value?
Can you name a time in history when the United States dollar had no value?
Define US dollar.
How many paper currencies have failed throughout history?
Whatever you want to define the US dollar as, it won't make a difference.
How many paper currencies have failed in stable, modern nations?
lol how many stable modern nations have there been?
The cards are still up in the air for most, if not all current fiat currencies.How wide do you need your definition to be before you've got a hit? Stability is a relatively recent thing in the world. There's significantly less fiat currency death now that countries have generally stopped fighting each other and instead focused on pursuing economic goals.
The cards are still up in the air for most, if not all current fiat currencies.
The dollar is fucked once people realise how many there are... The euro is fucked when Greece decide to be dicks again... The pound is slightly less fucked but it's just a slower descent...
Dont call it until the cards fall...
Until its not...Obviously. If you wreck your economy, your currency is probably going to fail. But until it happens, that currency is still valuable.
Until its not...
What arnt you understanding about this?
So you will admit fiat currencies fail eventually?But your contingency hasn't happened yet.
How many of the world's 7 billion plus people pay for the air they breathe? Ah yes. None? The fact that air is valuable in the context of SCUBA diving does not give all air the same value.
Can you name a time in history when the United States dollar had no value?
The definition of Tokeprep's "Modern" and "Stable" pretty much stacks the deck doesn't it?How many paper currencies have failed in stable, modern nations?
Iirc he said that once he had a CD outperform nominal inflation. That makes it a plausible and unusual event, and it required specific conditions that don't ordinarily obtain (to wit, the end of an inflationary period). I don't think you're correct in generalizing a point event that was presented as such. cn
But before he ever said that he said that if you wanted to beat inflation it was easy and that you could do it with CD's, Bonds, Treasuries, etc etc etc. Then he had to backtrack a whoooooole bunch when it was brought to his attention the yields of those assets. He's been backtracking and denying it ever since.
I tied to look up the relationship between interest rates and inflation. I'm no economist; I admit defeat. cn
How wide do you need your definition to be before you've got a hit? Stability is a relatively recent thing in the world. There's significantly less fiat currency death now that countries have generally stopped fighting each other and instead focused on pursuing economic goals.
So you will admit fiat currencies fail eventually?
Too easy...
Well stop breathing then.
I noticed you gave up on the CPI Calculations.
I noticed you gave up on the CD's, Treasuries, Bonds beating inflation.
I noticed you gave up entirely on trying to prove that the dollar isn't debt based.
You sure give up alot when your arguments get defeated.