How Long Does This Go On Before There's A Currency Crisis?

03-12-2014 • http://www.zerohedge.com, by Simon Black

‘Fiat’ is a subjunctive conjugation of the Latin verb ‘fi?’; literally translated, it means “let it be” as in “Let there be light.”

Or in this case… ‘let there be paper money,’ which pretty much crystalized the absurdity of our monetary system.

Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke summed this up nicely in a 60 Minutes interview he gave a few years ago in which he said, “We can raise interest rates in 15 minutes. . .”

And he was right. Central bankers can change interest rates whenever they want.

If you think about it, interest rates are nothing more than the ‘price’ of money. It’s the rate that people pay when they ‘demand’ money in the form of loans based on the supply of money available.

But this price of money is incredibly influential around the world. Interest rates affect the prices of shares in the stock market. Oil. Agricultural commodities. Real estate. Automobiles.

1 Comments in Response to How Long Does This Go On Before There's A Currency Crisis?

Comment by Anon Commenter

Entered on: 3/13/2014 8:53:34 AM

Two MUST read articles:

Let’s Stop Fooling Ourselves: Americans Can’t Afford the Future (Peak Prosperity)
http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/81190/lets-stop-fooling-ourselves-americans-cant-afford-future

Bankers Destroy Global Economy by Design to Consolidate Power (and control over YOU, and every other RESOURCE on the planet)
http://www.truthistreason.net/bankers-destroy-global-economy-by-design-to-consolidate-power/comment-page-1#comment-26822

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