Larry Parks Explains Why Gold is Superior Money. More Information can be found from Larry Parks HR1098 Congressional Testimony 9-13-11 To get a copy of What Does Mr. Greenspan Really Think? from Amazon, click HERE Support FAME
Why Gold is Superior Money (Part I)
Why Gold is Superior Money (Part II)
Larry Parks Explains Why Gold is Superior Money Part II – These three lectures were broadcast in 2010. Thus, the charts and exhibits are not up-to-date. However, all of the concepts remain valid. More Information can be found from Larry Parks HR1098 Congressional Testimony 9-13-11 To get a copy of What Does Mr. Greenspan Really […]
Why Gold is Superior Money (Part III)
Larry Parks Explains Why Gold is Superior Money Part III – These three lectures were broadcast in 2010. Thus, the charts and exhibits are not up-to-date. However, all of the concepts remain valid. This presentation is given by Larry Parks, Executive Director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME). More Information can […]
Limiting Government: the Role of Gold
Government has two great powers: (1) the legal monopoly on the use of force, i.e., coercion; and, (2) the power of the purse. The legal monopoly on coercion is limited in the extreme by the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, which gives the people the right to bear arms. The power of the purse is, […]
The Death of the Dollar (Part I)
Whenever the monetary authorities were able to create money out of nothing, there always came a time when they could not resist the temptation to overissue. What makes our monetary authorities different from those of the past? The Catholic Church has a line for this, and the Catholic Church has this exactly right: “In the […]
The Death of the Dollar (Part II)
Discusses the factors why the paper-ticket “dollar” will meet the fate of all paper money: it’s purchasing power will approach its cost of production, which is near zero. This lecture was prepared circa 2009. More Information can be found from Larry Parks HR1098 Congressional Testimony 9-13-11 To get a copy of What Does Mr. Greenspan […]
The Stupid (Prudent) Man Rule
Pension plan asset allocation that is theoretically and empirically stupid has been redefined as being prudent, thereby leading to a massive misallocation of pension plan assets. More importantly, since the US monetary system is dishonest, as well as many of the asset allocations being prima facie fraudulent, pension plan trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to […]
Disinformation about Gold
This lecture debunks a huge story from the Financial Times whose theme it was that gold is unstable. Using incontrovertible official data, Larry Parks shows that it is the legal tender irredeemable paper-ticket-electronic dollar that is unstable, not gold. This lecture was prepared circa 2009. More Information can be found from Larry Parks HR1098 Congressional […]
Investing with Fiat Money: Risks and Remedies
As about 60 million Baby Boomers are set to retire, asset allocation of one’s savings is a key issue because one does not want run out of money at a time when one cannot easily replenish one’s savings. What to do? Wall Street is misleading people by not explaining that there is material risk that […]
To Buy or Not To Buy Gold
This lecture was broadcast a few years ago, so the numbers in the exhibits have changed. What has not changed is the reasoning about why one, in Larry’s opinion, should allocate a material amount of one’s wealth to gold. An allocation to gold is a bet, i.e., a speculation, not an investment, that the world’s […]
How Fiat Money Plays Out
Larry Parks, using illustrations, shows how legal tender irredeemable paper-ticket-electronic money, a.k.a. fiat money, plays out. It’s purchasing power always approaches its cost of production: ZERO! More Information can be found from Larry Parks HR1098 Congressional Testimony 9-13-11 To get a copy of What Does Mr. Greenspan Really Think? from Amazon, click HERE Support FAME
Thank You Mr. Buffett
Larry Parks thanks Warren Buffett for starting a conversation about gold, even though Mr. Buffett declaims any possible role for gold in the world’s monetary system. That is, Mr. Buffett believes that gold is not of much use when, in fact, it has great use as money. Parks explains how and why politicians, who are […]
Why US Monetary System Violates Jewish Law (Part I)
The U.S. monetary system and all legal tender irredeemable paper-ticket-electronic monetary systems worldwide violate scripture in every major religion. In the U.S., after the Civil War experience with paper money, called Greenbacks, there was a great deal of dissension about whether to resume gold-as-money. There were debates in the business, banking, and labor sectors about […]
Why US Monetary System Violates Jewish Law (Part II)
The U.S. monetary system and all legal tender irredeemable paper-ticket-electronic monetary systems worldwide violate scripture in every major religion. In the U.S., after the Civil War experience with paper money, called Greenbacks, there was a great deal of dissension about whether to resume gold-as-money. There were debates in the business, banking, and labor sectors about […]
Why US Monetary System Violates Jewish Law (Part III)
The U.S. monetary system and all legal tender irredeemable paper-ticket-electronic monetary systems worldwide violate scripture in every major religion. In the U.S., after the Civil War experience with paper money, called Greenbacks, there was a great deal of dissension about whether to resume gold-as-money. There were debates in the business, banking, and labor sectors about […]
Issues Relating to Manufacturers
Hard to believe, but if you are reading this (and you are a manufacturer in the United States) you are one of the lucky ones. We still consume, but we no longer build. How and why that happened is a story in its own right. “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the […]
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Labor & Union Issues
Labor, Unions and Workers know they have been swindled, their pensions jeopardized, and a lifetime’s work placed at risk. The last time American workers were faced with fixing their financial system, American Labor called for a fair and honest monetary system, enjoyed broad public support, and worked to achieve it. The ensuing prosperity lasted more […]
Phony Risk Management
The phony definition of the so-called “riskless rate-of-return” results in a gross misallocation of pension plan assets on which Wall Street firms and banks garner exorbitant and unearned fees. If the putative beneficiaries receive the benefits and pensions they have been promised and which they have earned, it will be a happy accident. Meanwhile the […]
The Fed is Causing, not Curing, Deflation, Low Wages, Unemployment and Reducing Demand
The Fed believes that Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) will boost the economy by increasing credit creation, making it more profitable to build factories, start businesses, with increased demand and employment to follow. ZIRP, a euphemism for facilitating the creation of legal tender irredeemable paper-ticket-electronic make-believe money out of nothing, does bring forward sales of some […]