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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:13:43 MET
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- From: Grzegorz Albinowski <caius@II.UJ.EDU.PL>
- Subject: why gold - why commodity
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- VMS:
- >It is interesting that Caius considers titanium as a new standard for "solid
- >currency," I myself once offered the idea that the "new economy" of the future
- >might be an energy-based economy. "Ergs (= "A centimeter-gram-second" unit of
- >energy ...") or calories might be the new standard, or maybe even
- > "foot-pounds."Again, we, as a total species planet-wide, have to agree on such
- > a standard -
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- Chicago Mercantile Exchange trades GSCI Naerby Index wchich consists of
- 48% Energy (Crude oil, Heating oil, Unleaded gasoline)
- 23% Livestock
- 8% Metals (aluminium. copper. gold etc)
- rest foods, grains etc.
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- Any basket of commodities may be suitable for the task of money.
- on condition it is *NOT* changed frequently. I mean 500 years, or so.
- That's why i preffer gold to other commodities or baskets
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- >at the moment, "free market" standards demand a free-floating currency that
- >measures against each other, and that is not pegged to a standard. It would
- >seem to me that a free market advocate would accept the status quo, rather
- >than attempt to go backward to a "fixed" standard (isn't that "government
- >interference?"). VMS
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- Yes, the market will decide.
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- Caius.
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