Schlagwort-Archive: values?

The non interest earning gold

This is a very crude way to discuss. If you’d read Rothbard you will see he never talks about some fiat-currency but gold ounces and that even those earn their interest.
That it’s not so with current gold is simply because gold is calculated in whatever fiat-money you can think of.

And you do not lend Gold but “money” , as we know this money is not real money, but that’s another story

Still since 2001 gold has risen from around 300 USD/ounce to well over 1800 USD/ounce in 2011 that means the you need six times more money today to buy one ounce.
That are a little below 20% raise for now 10 years, and the last 3 years the raise has risen to 27%/year. So if you’d spend 1000 USD in 2001 in Gold you know could get back 6000 USD and well the inflation rate is quite a bit lower

On the other hand the interest yielding Euro money today yields 1.976 % for 10 years. In Germany we’d have to pay 0.4xx % taxes on it and inflation rate is near 2.5%. You’re loosing a percent every year.
If we just would calculate with double the interest for the past 10 years and you’d invest 1000 USD for 10 years you and without taxes you’d now have 1343 USD. Now talk about the “great” interests this money earns….

Because all central banks and politician try to devaluate their currencies one just can buy gold, sit back and watch. The madness will come to an end. Do you think you will fare better with fiat-money or Gold?
Well I for my part have decided that for me….

How does your country handle property rights

It’s quite interesting to see, what place property rights play in any country. There are countries where this is values really high, but there also are countries in which grants on property rights look like an “oversight” or afterrthought. Let’s take Germany, we are infamous for a few things, one of it was the ex DDR. Well there all was own by the “people”, well the people were a round of guys, claiming allrights for them and leave nothing for the rest. The combined it with a yet to be parralleled system of support for thieves throuhg a state security office. Well even we in the Western part have a few strange limits on property right, the most infamous if there is enough of “public interest” people can be disappropriated. It does not even mean that market prices have to be paid. So let’s see e.g. you have a nice piece of land in nowhere land. The “authorities” want to built a highway, well you do not want to sell to them, disappropriation is than an option. Well if you are “clever” enough you see if there isn’t one special kind of animal living on your grounds, because then this disappropropriaton will get much harder. Well it’s not that you are the owner which make is “hard” it’s some kind of “higher” thing like saving some other animal for getting banished.

However the points is. A country not honoring private property is hardly a consittutional state. it’s just a round of maroders backed up by laws initiated and controlled by a point of a weapon. So be aware of such countries, they told you on how high the value “hard honest” work but in the end it’s standing on your ground, pointing a gun to you and sayin. “Well we think you agree you better “cooperate” with us”. Or some such….