Derek said (December 28, 2011):

Excellent article on how a gold standard has benefited a finance plutocracy at the expense of the general population. Why should our purchasing power be determined by something as irrelevant as who holds how much of a shiny metal? Why should our prosperity depend on the whims and schemes of a self-interested, manipulative cartel? That situation benefits those few families (such as Oppenheimer's and Rothschild's) who ruthlessly control that particular supply chain.

Here's a great presentation on gold price fixing:

http://www.abeldanger.net/2011/02/gata-gold-market-manipulation-huge.html

And here's a great article on a better way:

http://www.abeldanger.net/2011/09/more-time-for-leisure-national-dividend.html

Robert said (December 28, 2011):

Unfortunately, Dan didn't identify who Frederick Soddy was. He was an English radiochemist who with Ernest Rutherford explained that radioactivity is caused by the transmutation of elements. For this and other achievements he was awarded the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 1921. A crater on the moon bears his name.

Soddy was an independent thinker who undertook his own study of economics and came to his own conclusions about the grave deficiencies in the current financial system. While he was not on all fours with the analysis of C.H. Douglas, the British engineer who founded the Social Credit movement, he did honour the latter with the public statement that "Science without Social Credit is sheer suicide."

This undoubtedly referred to the fact stressed by Douglas that in a technologically advanced society conventional methods of distributing consumer income fail increasingly to permit the ongoing liquidation of accumulating costs of production.

Diane said (December 28, 2011):

THANK YOU for the columns from Anthony Migchels. This is his best yet, and rings true to me.

Next, Henry, can you please connect for your readers this likely return to gold with the slow, steady trajectory of Ron Paul toward the presidency.

I do not believe that Ron Paul is a willing conspirator with the globalist satanist elite. (If he is a Mason he is most likely one of low degree.) But his dogged pursuit of Austrian economics shows him to be a dangerous commodity for voters.

What if there is a contingency plan of the elite to gradually and imperceptibly steer voters toward Ron Paul? It seems as if all other candidates are being discredited before voters one by one. This is step one. Step two: at some point it will become obvious that Ron Paul was cheated out of a win in one or more states, and the public will rush to support the wronged underdog. Step Three: a very big and very hot war with Iran and or Syria will be triggered by a false flag event so slick that Ron Paul will feel obligated to support the war effort. He will lead the effort in Congress to actually declare war this time, and he will succeed. Once war is declared, the elite can trust Candidate, later President Ron Paul to prosecute it vigorously, and to rally the public to support the rigorous economic austerity measures that the elite want put in place. Of course, the wheels will continue coming off of the global economy during all this, and the economic crisis will be greatly heightened by blocked shipping lanes in the Middle East.

Who better than Ron Paul to sell the public on a new gold standard, on higher interest rates, and on reducing government spending for social services while raising spending for the war machine? The globalist new world order will get its most important piece, the gold standard, locked into place with the approval of most of the anti-NWO people.

Dan said (December 28, 2011):

We cannot return to a gold standard simply because there is only 142,000 metric tons of gold in existence. The current value of all the gold in the world is only 6 trillion dollars. For this reason, if gold were made the standard of currency tomorrow, gold price would skyrocket because there's not enough of it for this purpose today.

The gold standard was an 18th century scam out of England. It favors nations with the most gold, ie. the international Colonial powers, like England at the time. Small nations with small gold reserves were forced to cough up their real wealth, such as bountiful agricultural harvests and 'sell dear' to the fat cats in London and Amsterdam. Gold in fact enabled the international bankers to impoverish productive economies to loot their real commodities.

One must dig back to find books by writers that were versed in the nature of the economics that built Western Civilization. Economics in healthy cultures is entwined with a culture's ethics and long range goals. Our civilization's economics has largely been hijacked to transfer wealth and power to an invasive, usurping culture.

There was a book by Frederich Soddy published in 1935, 'Money as nothing for something ; The gold "standard" snare' which has been eliminated from all booksellers and removed from Internet Archive and Gutenberg Project since Google took over those sources.

Other books by Soddy if you can find 'em are 'Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt. The solution of the economic paradox' (George Allen & Unwin, 1926), and, The Role of Money, Frederick Soddy (George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1934. Internet Archive Gutenberg)
http://www.archive.org/details/roleofmoney032861mbp