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The Most Important Worker Right: The Right to be Paid with Real Money

March 14, 2018 by Larry Parks

50 cent scrip

In 1955 a hit song with the unlikely title “16 Tons” became the then second largest selling record of all time, having sold about 20 million copies, according to Doris Day.[i] To this day, there is hardly anyone who was born before 1945, and many even thereafter, who doesn’t recall Tennessee Ernie Ford’s soulful rendition. […]

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When is “Free-trade” not Free-trade? When it’s done with fake, a.k.a., “fiat” money

November 12, 2017 by Larry Parks

United States Balance of Trade, 1960 – Sept 2017 ($ Billions)

Free Trade Principles: The meaning of free trade is that trading partners should be able to trade lawful goods and services in fully informed voluntary transactions without hindrance or subsidy. When Adam Smith in his seminal The Wealth of Nations circa 1776 and classical economist David Ricardo in his On the Principles of Political Economy […]

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How Real US Money Became Bogus, aka, Fiat, Money

June 7, 2015 by Larry Parks

United States Silver Money This is silver money. It is in fact and in law a one dollar coin as provided for by the Coinage Act of 1792. It is in conformity with the dollar referred to in the 7th Amendment to the Constitution. This is not a dollar. It is a promise to pay […]

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Six Reasons Why Promoting the Gold Standard is a Mistake

June 4, 2015 by Larry Parks

Promoting the “gold standard,” even with modifiers such as “classical,” “pure,” “100%” and others, or any monetary regime whereby paper money is “backed by,” “redeemable into,” “pegged to” or in any other way related to gold is a mistake for six reasons: The gold standard is not authorized by the Constitution. The only money authorized […]

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Labor & Union Issues

May 15, 2015 by Larry Parks

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 […]

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The Fed is Causing, not Curing, Deflation, Low Wages, Unemployment and Reducing Demand

February 26, 2015 by Larry Parks

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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 […]

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