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The Coming Return Of Commodity-Backed Money
The Coming Return Of Commodity-Backed Money
Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.com,
This piece is as much a mental exploration as a fact-gathering exercise.
Let’s begin with the problem. Bank failures come together with economic failures.
So trusting banks is a problem, but furthermore, trusting fiat currency is also a problem. This is on top of the issue that moving capital from one bank to another is increasingly fraught with headaches. AML and KYC have become weaponised, and the global surveillance system is tightening its grip. So movement of capital, treasury, and of course...
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