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Fiat Money

Fiat Money

An object that has no intrinsic value and is still used as a medium of exchange. The term “fiat” derives from the Latin “fieri” meaning ‘it shall be’. Fiat money does not have use value, and has value only because a government maintains its value, or because parties engaging in exchange agree on its value. It was introduced as an alternative to commodity money and representative money. Commodity money is created from a good, often a precious metal such as gold or silver, which has uses other than as a medium of exchange (such a good is called a commodity). Representative money is similar to fiat money, but it represents a claim on a commodity. Fiat money first began to be used in China in the 11th century and has since been used by various countries. It gradually poisons any economy it invades. The corruption of money always begins the complete corruption of a nation.

“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again…Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”

– Josiah Stamp, former Governor of the Bank of England during the 1920’s

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Chronological History of Events Related to Fiat Money

Executive Order 6102 - The Great Gold Robbery of 1933: FDR and the Federal Reserve Confiscates All Gold in Exchange for Depreciable Fiat Dollars

Executive Order 6102 – The Great Gold Robbery of 1933: FDR and the Federal Reserve Confiscates All Gold in Exchange for Depreciable Fiat Dollars

It's been 75 years (2008 article) since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use. This happens to be one of the episodes Kevin Gutzman and I describe in detail in our new book, Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World ...
Adolf Hitler is Appointed Chancellor of Germany and Would Soon Become Time Magazine's 'Man of the Year' for what they called the 'German Miracle'

Adolf Hitler is Appointed Chancellor of Germany and Would Soon Become Time Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ for what they called the ‘German Miracle’

Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. Germany at this time is in horrible economic circumstances from the Treaty of Versailles following WWI and massive inflation imposed by the international bankers. 100 billion German Marks couldn't buy a loaf of bread. He kicks out the private central bankers, returning control of the currency to the government. This triggered an economic boom in Germany which would later be ...
Hearings on a Stabilization Amendment to the Federal Reserve Act Concluded with Warnings that a Financial Crash had Been Planned in 1927 by the International Bankers

Hearings on a Stabilization Amendment to the Federal Reserve Act Concluded with Warnings that a Financial Crash had Been Planned in 1927 by the International Bankers

The House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency conducted meetings in 1928 from March 19-21; April 30; and most of May (1-3, 4, 8, 9, 15-18, 23, 24, 28, and 29) regarding a bill to amend the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. The goal was to "define certain policies toward which the powers of the federal reserve system shall be directed; to further promote the ...
Federal Reserve Chairman: "The Federal Reserve Bank is an institution owned by the stockholding member banks. The Government has not a dollar's worth of stock in it."

Federal Reserve Chairman: “The Federal Reserve Bank is an institution owned by the stockholding member banks. The Government has not a dollar’s worth of stock in it.”

In August 1914, William P.G. Harding began his service to the Federal Reserve System with his appointment as a member of the newly created Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, DC. On 10 August 1916, he was designated as the second governor (chairman). During this time he was also managing director of the War Finance Corporation from 1918 to 1919. When his term expired in ...
Report of the 68th Convocation of the Rose Cross Order

Report of the 68th Convocation of the Rose Cross Order

Roughly forty years ago, an amateur researcher of secret societies stumbled upon an oddly unique find in a humble little used book store. It was a reddish-brown leather bound book with no title on the cover – just a strange arcane symbol embossed in gold. The symbol was intricately detailed: a rope circle with a triple-layered triangle in the center. Within the inner-most triangle is a ...
The Federal Reserve Act Gets Snuck Through Senate with Opposing Senators on Christmas Holiday

The Federal Reserve Act Gets Snuck Through Senate with Opposing Senators on Christmas Holiday

In his book The Creature from Jekkyl Island, G. Edward Griffin says that it was Edward Mandell House who on behalf of Wall Street, lobbied Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act. During the democratic campaign the supporters of Woodrow Wilson pretended to oppose the Aldrich Bill. As Rep. Louis McFadden, a democrat and chairman of the House of Banking and Currency Committee explained it twenty ...
A Group of International Bankers Leave NJ Railroad Station for Jekyll Island to Plan the Takeover of the American Banking System with the Federal Reserve Act

A Group of International Bankers Leave NJ Railroad Station for Jekyll Island to Plan the Takeover of the American Banking System with the Federal Reserve Act

On the night of November 22, 1910, a group of newspaper reporters stood disconsolately in the railway station at Hoboken, New Jersey. They had just watched a delegation of the nation’s leading financiers leave the station on a secret mission. It would be years before they discovered what that mission was, and even then they would not understand that the history of the United States underwent ...
William Jennings Bryan Speech: Imperialism (Flag of an Empire)

William Jennings Bryan Speech: Imperialism (Flag of an Empire)

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Notification Committee: I shall, at an early day, and in a more formal manner, accept the nomination which you tender, and shall at that time discuss the various questions covered by the Democratic platform.  It may not be out of place, however, to submit a few observations at this time upon the general character of the contest before us and ...
Author Frank Baum and Illustrator W. W. Denslow Publish 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'

Author Frank Baum and Illustrator W. W. Denslow Publish ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. This was part of their effort to create a body of American literature in the fairy tale genre; they had already collaborated on Father Goose books. The Wizard was a ...
U.S. President James Garfield is Shot by an Assassin

U.S. President James Garfield is Shot by an Assassin

One bullet grazed his elbow, but a second lodged in the back of President James Garfield, who was shot July 2, 1881, as he waited in a Washington, D.C., train station. The assassin was Charles Guiteau, a free-love polygamist who had been a member the communist cult called “Oneida Community.” President James Garfield had been in office only four months. Though not wounded seriously, unsterile medical ...