Gerry Epstein Refutes Peter Schiff & Ron Paul's Nonsense Re. US Going Off Gold Standard

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Uploaded by on Oct 7, 2011

Gerry Epstein argues that going off the gold standard was 'liberation' - it's just that US policy makers didn't use this opportunity to grow the USA' s position in manufacturing etc. but instead used it to deregulate finance, leading to the current dominance of the financial services sector over the economy.

Peter Schiff & Ron Paul - two idiotic kooks of the same feather.

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  • What esptein has stated is technically true. But, he is wrong to assume that currency does not require some sort of backing. Furthermore, Gold & Silver are instruments to which ALL countries can measure their currencies against and AGREE upon. epstein is rightfully criticizing neo-liberal politics/economics, yet he contradicts his argument by viewing the rest of the world from a "Ameri-centric" perspective. Countries only care that another countries currency is backed with something they trust.

  • Cancellation of the tangible gold standard gave rise to "floating exchanges" due to the new currency fluctuations. In an attempt to offset these week-to-week (or so) currency fluctuations multi-national companies created in-house financial services. Like a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics said ... ... there should be a money standard, we have a standard for length, mass, volume, time, etc. .... why not for money ?

    Why does a currency have to be overly-devalued ?

  • There's a saying "God makes gold, Man makes money". Gold enforces fiscal discipline/responsibility, something that politicians do not like as evidenced from Nixon's actions. With a tangible money standard, excessive spending on wars and those more-foolish social programs is difficult. When gold was dropped, the US got lazy and preferred the "financial engineering" over the "technical engineering" path (such a shame).

  • @juliaisafilmbuff123 If you aren't already subscribe to the Real News channel. Good stuff.

  • THANK YOU for this.

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