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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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Filed Under: Articles, Banks, Constitution & Legal, Debt, Edwin Vieira, Federal Reserve, Ferdinand Lips, Interviews, Investment Gold, Labor Unions, Larry Parks, Lectures, Manufacturing & Trade, Maria Campbell, Monetary System, Radio Interviews, Religion Related, Retirement Security, Site Map, Uncategorized, Videos Tagged With: deficit, fiat money, Gold, manufacturing, pensions

Larry Parks Testifies Before the US Congress

June 11, 2015 by Larry Parks

On ……………. include verbiage from House Hearing Page + images Larry Parks HR1098 Congressional Testimony 9-13-11

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Filed Under: Constitution & Legal, Debt, Larry Parks, Manufacturing & Trade, Monetary System Tagged With: Constitution, debt, deficit, derivatives, Dollar, economy, fiat money, Gold, interest rates, jobs, manufacturing, pensions, R&D, real wages, silver, social mobility, trade, war, waste

Larry Parks Interviews Hon. David Stockman re his book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

June 7, 2015 by Larry Parks

Some of the topics touched on include: Was Reagan a fiscal conservative? Did we have free market capitalism, or was that just spin? Was political control of economy really cut back under Reagan-Bush or was that spin? Is the Federal Reserve a symptom of crony capitalism? Fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, bailouts. . . is […]

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Filed Under: Banks, Debt, Federal Reserve, Interviews, Larry Parks, Monetary System, Videos Tagged With: capitalism, central planning, Constitution, consumption tax, David Stockman, debt, deposit insurance, Federal Reserve, free market, glass-steagall, Great Deformation, great depression, greenspan put, interest rates, manipulating, stimulus, too big to fail, warfare state, waste, wealth tax

Larry Parks interviews Lewis Lehrman re TheTrueGoldStandard.org

June 7, 2015 by Larry Parks

For more than 40 years, Lewis Lehrman, Co-Chairman of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, has taken a leadership role in promulgating gold as money. Here, he discusses overcoming objections to eliminating paper money, e.g., that we cannot have gold-as-money because: financial markets are inherently unstable and we need paper money to periodically bail […]

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Filed Under: Debt, Federal Reserve, Interviews, Larry Parks, Monetary System, Videos Tagged With: de Gaulle, entitlement promises, gilder Lehrman institute, gold standard, Lew Lehrman, Lincoln, paper money

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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Filed Under: Articles, Constitution & Legal, Investment Gold, Larry Parks, Monetary System Tagged With: Constitution, fraud, Gold, Larry Parks, legal tender, pensions, silver

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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Issues Relating to Manufacturers

May 27, 2015 by Larry Parks

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

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 study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it came, where it went – 1975, p15

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