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★ Gold & Gold Standard

Ironically, the gold was being sold back to the company it had been stolen from.  ibid.

 

 

I want to see the look on that man’s face when his gold has gone.  The Italian Job 2003 starring Jason Statham & Mark Wahlberg & Edward Norton & Charlize Theron & Seth Green & Mos Def & Donald Sutherland et al, Stella

 

It was about a lot of gold.  And I wanted it.  ibid.  Steve with dodgy tash

 

 

Still, I never quite lost sight of the gold, inaccessible as it often seemed to me when I was merely a ... nonentity.  The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 starring Alec Guinness & Stanley Holloway & Sidney James & Alfie Bass & Marjorie Fielding & Edie Martin & John Salew & Ronald Adam & Arthur Hambling & Clive Morton, director Charles Crichton, Holland

 

 

At the station the gold was loaded into the luggage van of the Folkestone train for shipment to the coast and there to the Crimea.  The First Great Train Robbery 1978 starring Sean Connery & Donald Sutherland & Lesley-Anne Down & Alan Webb & Malcolm Terris & Robert Lang & Michael Elphick & Wayne Sleep et al, director Michael Crichton, commentary

 

 

There’s nothing here but worthless gold.  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s6e12: Who Mourns For Morn? Quark to Odo

 

 

One of Germanys first acts was to demand the gold held in Austrias name in the BIS [Bank of International Settlements] be transferred ... Twenty-two tons of gold.  Banking with Hitler, 1998

 

When Holland then Belgium fell the Reichsbank looted their gold.  Some of that gold made its way to the BIS.  ibid.

 

The following year BIS directors and Reichsbank vice-president Emil Puhl were tried and convicted of crimes against humanity for his involvement in laundering the gold of murdered Jews.  ibid.

 

 

Gold fever is about to change the west and the people heading there.  America: The Story of the US: Westward, History 2010

 

After just six years the gold rush is over.  Of the three hundred thousand who rush to find gold less than one out of a hundred strike it rich.  The fortunes are made by the merchants and land owners who supply the miners.  From dirt and dreams come the great cities of California, but the new nation’s hunger for goods triggers another kind of revolution.  ibid.

 

 

Suddenly, gold seekers rushed in from every corner of the globe.  Ken Burns, The West III, PBS 1996

 

 

The landscape around me has been shaped by ancient oceans and erupting volcanoes and ice ages.  But it’s here down in the mud that the real treasures of Britain are buried: coal, lead, even tin have been pivotal in making Britain what it is today.  Tony Robinson, Birth of Britain: Gold, National Geographic 2010

 

Gold: it underpinned our economies, celebrates the pinnacles of our achievements, and epitomizes the extremes of luxury and wealth ... What is surprising is Britain’s gold heritage.  ibid.

 

The amount of gold we can get hold of is tiny.  ibid.

 

 

Gold was discovered in the Transvaal.  Empires: Queen Victoria’s Empire IV: The Scramble For Africa, PBS 2001

 

 

Under the Executive Order of the President: all persons are required to deliver on or before May 1 1933 all gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates now owned by them to a Federal Reserve Bank, branch or agency, or to any member bank of the Federal Reserve System.  Executive Order 3rd April 1933, penalty threat of ten years imprisonment

 

 

The money-changers wanted two things: the reinstitution of a central bank under their exclusive control, an American currency backed by gold.  William T Still, The Money Masters, 1996

 

The rip-off of the ages was about to precede: in 1935 once the gold had all been turned in, the official price of gold was suddenly raised.  ibid.

 

If we don’t understand that the gold has been stolen we’ll allow ourselves to be stampeded into the wrong solution – a gold-backed currency.  ibid.

 

By 1971 all the pure gold had been secretly removed from Fort Knox, drained back to London.  ibid.

 

 

Some 72% of world gold had been stashed in Fort Knox because they didn’t know what the outcome of World War II was going to be ... World’s largest treasure – mmm maybe we should audit it every so often.  But in fact fiscal audit has not been conducted at the gold reserves in Fort Knox since 1947.  PSTV.tv  Bill Still Interview

 

Ron Paul and his insistence on this return to gold-backed money – it’ll never work.  ibid.

 

Historically gold has never worked ... Gold only works for the richest guys ... Plutocracy ... It does not empower democracy.  It does not empower freedom.  ibid.

 

 

Garfield understood the ability of the very wealthy to manipulate gold money ... President Garfield was assassinated.  Bill Still, The Secret of Oz, 2009

 

William Jennings Bryan: the man who would become known as the Lion of the Free Silver Movement.  ibid.

 

The Panic of 1893: it all started when European investors demanded payment only in gold.  ibid.

 

People wanted silver money legalised again so they could escape the stranglehold the money-changers had on gold-backed money.  ibid.

 

The presidential campaign of 1896 would see the explosive money issue dominate the election.  ibid.

 

 

Gold is inconvenient ... Why any single commodity? ... It makes the value of money exclusively dependent on the quantity of that one commodity.  Paul Grignon, Money As Debt III: Evolution Beyond Money, 2006

 

 

We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: you shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.  William Jennings Bryan 

 

 

The gold standard has slain its tens of thousands ... When we have restored the money of the Constitution, all other necessary reforms will be possible.  William Jennings Bryan

 

 

Tim Woodman ... joined the ranks of those unemployed in the depression of the 1890s, a victim of the unwillingness of the eastern gold bugs to countenance an increase in the stock of money through the addition of silver.  Hugh Rockoff, The Wizard of Oz as a Monetary Allegory

 

Baum is following history in suggesting that the movement was started first by the western farmers, was joined ... by the working man, and then, once it was well under way, was joined by Bryan.  The roaring lion is a good choice for one of the greatest American orators.  ibid.

 

Coxey was a greenbacker, and his ideas were simple: the federal government should build public works and pay for them by printing money.  ibid.

 

It is not surprising that the layout of the Emerald Palace should reflect the numbers seven and three.  The Crime of 73 was a crucial event in populist monetary history.  ibid.

 

 

There was no longer a one to one ratio of paper to gold.  Now there could be three or four pieces of paper in circulation for every unit of gold in the vault.  Money, Banking & The Federal Reserve, 1996

 

Roosevelt confiscated the people’s gold.  ibid.

 

 

In truth the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.  John Maynard Keynes, Monetary Reform 1924 p172

 

 

Gold is the most stable asset the world has ever seen.  Celente & Schiff & Paul & Faber & Rogers & Woods, MeltUp: The Beginning of a US Currency Crisis

 

Morgan Stanley wasn’t physically storing their gold at all.  ibid.

 

The last real audit of the US gold reserves took place in 1954.  ibid.

 

The US dollar would have to be devalued 98% for our gold reserves to be worth enough to pay off our national debt.  ibid.

 

 

No gold-digging for me ... I take diamonds.  We may be off the gold standard some day.  Mae West

 

 

Two banks held 43% of the commercial and short position in gold.  Bill Murphy

 

 

That for which all virtue now is sold,

And almost every vice – almighty gold.  Ben Jonson, The Forest

 

 

What if I were to tell you that almost twenty million dollars in gold and silver simply disappeared at the end of the Civil War?  Brad Meltzer’s Decoded s1e5: Confederate Gold, H2 2013

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