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    Life (in a nutshell) is simple, but it seems some are trying to overcomplicate it. Money is used to exchange for goods. This is the world we live in, accept it. All you have to do to live a comfortable life is acquire more money than you give out. You don't even have to make a lot of money, just spend less than you make. If you live paycheck to paycheck, you are a prisoner, a slave to the system. Figure out a system that works for you. It takes time, but as soon as you can get into this mindset, everything else comes easy.



    One thing I hate is waste. Reduce as much waste in your life as you can. Are you paying $125 month for your cell phone? You need to change that. $125 ten years ago, ok. $125 today, not ok. This bill can be cut in half. Don't buy what you don't need. Be efficient.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ItAllAddsUp View Post
    The "good" news is America's debt is too big to fail in the sense it would be suicide for other countries to actively try to call it.
    Ask yourself if this is this still true Not to get political but I just read this in an article today and if you really begin to look around you can see the truth of it.

    "China sees an enormous opportunity to cast itself as the responsible global leader on trade and climate change. Russia is angling for more influence in its near abroad, the eastern parts of Europe, and the Middle East. Germany and the European Union more generally have sought to replace the United States as a moral leader on diplomacy, human rights, and intercultural engagement."

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    "China sees an enormous opportunity to cast itself as the responsible global leader on trade and climate change. Russia is angling for more influence in its near abroad, the eastern parts of Europe, and the Middle East. Germany and the European Union more generally have sought to replace the United States as a moral leader on diplomacy, human rights, and intercultural engagement."
    By hook or by crook, the big powers still keep trying to climb over each other, just don't do it with cannons and bombs much anymore.

    Keep your skills sharp and your powder dry...

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    Well since we know what is real & cash is fiat , as long as the rain falls wind blows crops grow all is well
    but let that fail , put war at your door , catastrophe will rain .
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    Quote Originally Posted by CopperHeadAKA View Post
    Well since we know what is real & cash is fiat , as long as the rain falls wind blows crops grow all is well
    but let that fail , put war at your door , catastrophe will rain .
    This is true... But try not to focus on what could be, but what is.. What could be may never be, but what is, is.

    I like to say - Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

    In my earlier post ^^ What I'm trying to say (amongst other things) is be less dependent on others, because the others won't always be there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CapitalRecovery View Post
    This is one of the reason why crypto currency is so big. Check it out CryptoCurrency Market Capitalizations plus the government has a hard time getting their fingers in it and you keep your money yourself, and it's around the world. but even this has it's draw backs. Personally I think the value of the dollar dropped after they stopped making U.S. currency with real metal like silver and copper.
    Quote Originally Posted by CopperHeadAKA View Post
    Gresham's law the monetary principle
    "bad money drives out good". if two forms of commodity money are in circulation,
    which are accepted as having similar face value,
    the more valuable commodity will disappear from circulation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
    I had not considered Gresham's law as applied to cryptocurrency. Which will drive the other out?

    I also want to point out that the government can render printed money completely worthless in an instant. By the stroke of a pen.



    I have the bill that guarantees the twenty dollars in gold coin. What happened to the gold coin the bill represents? It is unlikely I would receive a St. Gauden $20 gold coin were I to turn that bill into the treasury.

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    Nice looking piece of currency!! What's the actual year, sort of fuzzy to me (1908...?)??

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    Quote Originally Posted by DakotaRog View Post
    Nice looking piece of currency!! What's the actual year, sort of fuzzy to me (1908...?)??
    1922... It is fuzzy in real life. I had to get a magnifying glass.

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    $20 in gold today would be a few flakes (not a coin), better bring a pill bottle to put it in. On the other hand a crisp $20 gold note is worth more then $20 to a collector. And I am pretty sure McDonalds would take it as a $20, the bill is still legal tender but it cannot be traded in for gold coin anymore.


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