sastnot4 What Price |redressone redressone ordPrescom sit What Price What Price Gold... $7,000... $140,000... $infinity? Natural law copyright by Anthony Hargis (Copyright notice: to lawfully reproduce all or part of this article, the following attribution must be included: “Natural-law copyright by Anthony Hargis, redressone,wordpress.com: (if you want to “Follow” this site, click “Follow” button at top of page, thanks.) ‘You may think this will be a wild ride. If you think collateralization, currency equivalents, double-entry bookkeeping and mortgage-backed securities are dull subjects — if you think wishful thinking is a harmless activity — if you think taxes are essential for the development and maintenance ~ rather than the destruction ~ of civilization, then, yes, this will be a very wild ride. We are about to study concepts and actions, crimes and fictions that few, if any, others have examined yet relative to their influence on gold. Instead of using gold as collateral, the dollar, toda , is collateralized by US Treasury securities, which carry value only as taxes can be collected against future gencrations of Americans: a kind of cannibalism. ‘This is a hideous case of wishful thinking. Thus, today, wishful thinking has replaced gold as backing for most of the world’s currencies. It may also be a disturbing study; for, the dollar is the world’s reserve currency. It is used as gold once was used: to serve as backing, or collateral, for issued currencies around the globe; in the dollar's case, it serves as collateral for many of the world’s major currencies: the Euro, yuan, yen, and a few dozen others are, thus, built on top of the house of cards known as the dollar. ‘We should ponder the question, ‘What happens when men build their societies on houses of cards?” ‘There is more: the US Treasury and most, maybe all, central banks openly admit that the gold listed on their balance sheets is in physical and receivable form. In other words, it is not all there. It leads to questions such as, ‘Who took it?’ and ‘How shall we recover ‘These questions and issues — and several others — will be examined in pages that follow. The Basis of Civilization Units of money are the storehouse for man’s unused labor; they comprise streams and rivers that carry the products of man’s labor from hand to hand, from present to future; it the basis of every contract. There is, hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! 19saints What Price|reressone probably not a single transaction among men that does not involve some kind of contract; a spoken or written ‘word, even a nod, will suffice to make a contract. To properly serve its purpose, the value of money must have the same, or greater, value at the end of a contract compared to its beginning, whether the time lapse is twenty minutes or twenty years. Ifa money unit is less valuable at the end of a contract, he who provides a service or product is short-changed x amount. On the other side of the tra purchase; but loses a thousand x on his savings. In full context, both producer and provider of capital are cheated of their current and past labor by a cheapened money unit; for, all men, if left unmolested by tax takers, are natural savers. Those who receive benefits of a cheapened money unit are the legally-protected criminal class and, to the degree of crumbs and droppings, the useful-idiot class. ction, the buyer gains x amount on the If money is properly founded, men will labor unmolested and, at the end of each day, will reflect upon their greatest achievement: children with sparkling eyes and a curiosity that drives them in ten different directions at once, The most entertaining part comes from watching them sort out their priorities, and learn the ways of the ‘world; itis the pride of workmanship in its highest form. If, on the other hand, money is not properly founded, men grow angry that half their labor is taken by othe men mask by the word, ‘inflation’; and that their children must therefore go without food or shelter, clothing or parental companionship; children will grow sullen, confused and lethargic, and will take their revenge in a hundred different ways against a hundred random people in each of their following years. s — either by taxes or a cheapened money unit, which some The government is well aware of this destructive nature of taxes relative to families; the Supreme Court case that validated the Soeial Seeurity Act left no doubt. Illness, loss of jobs, resort to banditry and prostitution, alienation among family and neighbors are natural results when tax rates are moderate. Where they are unrestrained, children suffer the fate of exposure. Most history books are silent on this issue. But Edward Gibbon took the time to explain the ruin left in the wake of Roman tax takers: mother and father, Gibbon reported, who could see no hope of supporting a newborn, would take it into a field and abandon it; there, it would take three or four days for the forces of wind and sun, cold and rain to silence sreams; § fully shorten its suffering. (Gibbon, Edward, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, abridged by D. Lowe, ed., 141.) Thus were human lives ended — hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, per year ~ for thousands of years. Where child and tax taker compete for the same coin it will always be bad news for the child. Taxes, you see, will always fall most heavily on the weakest members of society. History tells us that such a society will drift inexorably toward extinction, and will never be allowed to rise again. Averdiet, or insult, applied against Egypt comes to mind: “policies set in motion by the Roman military and Christians reduced Egypt to a rotting mass of slaves ~ and left the country freely available to any conqueror, and wanted by none but the most base.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 11" ed., vol. ix, 90. ometimes dogs or wolves would mei Men organize societies, or civilizations, to make their property and rights more secure ~ and to preserve the achievements and ideals of that society. But, in every case, they fail to bridge the gap between aim and reali for, to preserve ideals, itis necessary that children of that society must survive. Where men send their male children to death and mutilation on the nearest battlefield — where parents cannibalize their young thru the process of governmental debt, the transmission of ideals fails — even if those ideals glorify the warrior class. tion; ‘Thus, if perpetuation of ideals is the aim, child rearing must be the first industry of society; and everything that subverts it must be the blackest of erimes, hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! angsaints What Price|reressone My main purpose here is ~ not to dwell on how men are affected by money founded properly or improperly, but — to explain how money of today is founded; I might deal with the other topic another day, itis too big for my purpose here, which brings us to the ques suitable for a title) would be, “What is the dollar value for gold that would redeem all dollar-denominated currency and dollar-denominated currency equivalents that have been issued into economic existence?” jon that serves as the title for this article. A more precise question (less We start with an examination of the different types of collateral that stand behind issued dollars. That gold remains the only valid collateral will become clear in the process. We start our search by examining the liability statement for the Federal Reserve (FR). The pertinent items are listed in the following table. oa = ean ft taruyiaGredavo? | — tz 2 fUS esas acct at wr | 1 ese Banas w #8" | 2725 To an Table 1. Currency and currency equivalents issued by the Federal Reserve (billions). Source, “Statistical Release” H4.1 for 2014 Ap 17 (issue date). The first item represents FR notes issued into cireul © Folow Scrip you and I carry in our pockets ‘The second item represents the u; EOllow » int maintained at the New York Federal Reserve redressone Bank. This is the Treasury's accow , ections and makes all tax disbursements. tayour nb ‘The third item represents account rks (such as Citibank, Chase et cetera) at FR banks for reserve requirements and for r_ | "= ¥ouremallsdvess .ents of funds, The first item is actual currency; i -ency equivalents” because they are capable of immediate conversion into FR not of the Federal Reserve. Please notice that each of these items is a liability There are other currency equivalents that do not show on the FR’s balance sheet. They are a) a sizeable portion of, Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and b) sizeable fractions of eurreney issued by foreign central banks. We will deal with these other equivalents later. Before we proceed, we need to deal with a major confusion ~held by most libertarians and activists, socialists and critics of the Federal Reserve ~ regarding the method by which paper money (such as the Federal Reserve Note) enters into circulation. Invariably, the people just mentioned, tell us the dollar is issued ‘out of thin air’; or is a ‘fiat’ currency (itis simply printed and thrown out the door, to favored pirates, of course). It is not that simple. It is much worse. Itis a fundamental principle in accounting that, for every entry, there must be one or more equal and offsetting entries; this is the principle of double-entry bookkeeping. Where this is not done — and where forums of redress are staffed by civilized men, people go to jail. hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! angsastnot4 What Price |redressone ‘Thus, when the FR issues Federal Reserve notes (which creates a liability on the FR’s balance sheet), there must be an equal and offsetting entry somewhere else on that balance sheet. Asa general rule, new Federal Reserve notes are issued only to member banks of the Federal Reserve System. When one of these banks needs a new supply of Federal Reserve notes, it must give US Treasury securities, with a face value equal to the amount of currency desired, to the Federal Reserve in exchange for curreney. With the exchange, such securities become assets, and such FR notes become liabilities, of the Federal Reserve. At the same time, such securities are earmarked as “collateral” for issued currency; just as, one hundred and fifty years ago, gold served as collateral for i sued curreney. This is reflected in a so-called “Statistical Release” H4.1 published every week by the Federal Reserve. It includes up to ten tables that deseribe various aspects of the financial condition of the Federal Reserve (in 1997 it contained five tables, now it is ten). The last table in each release, so far, is titled, “Collateral Held against Federal Reserve Notes”, and pertinent data for the one for 2014 Ap 16 is reproduced below. FR notes to be collateralized: 1.228) [Collateral held against FR notes: 1,228) Gold certificate account™ 1 [Special Drawing Rights certificate account: 3) |US Treasury and agency debt and MBS pledged 1212) [Total Colateral Exgible: US Treasury [$2,289 bil] lagency debt [$47 bill and MBS [$1,586 ball 3.922) Table 2. “[Table] 10. Collateral Held against Federal Reserve notes: Federal Reserve Accounts, [Billions] of dollars”. (Source: FR Statistical Release H4.1, 2014 Ap 17.) Agents’ This table shows, 2014 Ap 16, there were $1.28 trillion (face amount) of FR notes in circulation and that needed “to be collateralized” And, the FR was holding $3,922 of assets that were eligible to be used as collateral for issued FR notes. Prior to the financial meltdown of 2007, and counting, such assets fluctuated 1-3% around FR notes to be collateralized The collateral consisted of a) “gold certificate account”; b) Special Drawing Right (SDR) Certificate Account; e) Treasury and Agency Debt; and d) mortgage-backed securities (MBS). As a group, these are known as “Eligible Assets’ Perhaps it will be more clear if we put it in balance-sheet form. liabilities "to be Bherble Assets Collateralized” |Gold Certificate 11|Currency_ 1,228) [Special DR '5|US Trea acctatFRINY) | __ 65 US debt: Reserve balances w'FR | 2,725 Treasury| 2,336) ‘Agency, 47/ MBS 7,633 Totals:| 4,032 4,018 hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! 419sastnot4 What Price |redressone Table 3. Eligible assets and liabilit Federal Reserve statistical release H4.1, 2014 Ap 17.) es to be collateralized, as of 2014 Ap 16 (billions). (Source: ‘These are symbols that appear on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet. Here is a major question, “What is their realistic value?” Or, “What is the ability of counterparties to perform according to the numbers that appear on the FR’s balance sheet?” For example, counterparties for Treasury and Agency debt are the US Treasury (immediately) and taxpayers (ultimately). Can the US Treasury collect taxes necessary to redeem US Treasury and Agency debt... which would then redeem FR notes? (if we had time to waste, we could deal with the insanity of Federal Reserve notes redeeming Federal Reserve notes. But we won't.) Let us examine these “eligible” assets, one at a time. Gold Certificate Account: This represents a lien on gold that may or may not be in Fort Knox. Itis listed on the FR’s balance sheet at $42.22 per troy ounce. Treasury Debt and Agency Debt are both obligations of the federal government. They possess value according. to the belief that, someday, the U: taxpayers to redeem this debt. Treasury will be able to collect taxes from future generations of American Governmental debt is the medium thru which wishful thinking is turned to reality, temporarily. Men have engaged in wishful thinking for tens of thousands of years. Originators of this practice, according to myths and legends, were magicians. A magician persuaded other villagers that he could make it rain, the sun to shine, storms to abate; he could guarantee fish to jump into nets of men, vietory in war, a successful hunt, easy child birth, vegetation to turn green and countless other miraculous events. But, for villagers to enjoy these benefits, they had to surrender part of their property to the magician. He would put on his costume, waggle his head, utter his, gabble; a step to the right, clap, clap; a step to the left, clap, clap. And, if nature cooperated, villagers were happy and magician enjoyed his booty. But nature did not always cooperate. After one or three major failures ~ and, since villagers had paid for them, they lost patience and chased the magician down the road, or cut off his head. Because of the limited patience of villagers, the life expectancy for magicians was very short. His was a three-part office: promulgator of charms and taboos, dispenser of miracles and collector of booty. He eventually beca invisible magician. This invention (that is, the “invisible” magician) tremendously lengthened the life-expectaney of the visible magician. Soon, the work load became so great that priest created the subordinate office of king, whose duty was collector of booty, which was made more palatable by names such as sacrifices or peace offerings, tribute or sin offerings, supplies or taxes. There was a guild of visible magicians in every land; and every one of ‘me priest with the same three-part office; except charms and taboos became commandments of an them eventually fabricated elaborate legends and mythologies that glorified the collection of booty and the genocide of nonbelievers; read, for example, Deuteronomy, xx, 10-18, or Numbers, chapters xxv and xxx, This, in very brief terms, has been the story of man for ten, fifty or even a hundred thousand years. George Frazier, in his Golden Bough, will tell you more. Governmental debt a men had to surrender their property to finance groundless fictions, now, unborn generations are made dd central banking made the practice enormously more efficient. Where, formerly, living hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! S19sastnot4 What Price |redressone responsible for debt that made pos: expense of fabricating fictional lives and fictional beliefs. This made men more tolerant of knaves... and more careless with their children. ible long-dead fabrications. Living men no longer had to be burdened with the Itis the process by which one generation financially cannibalizes future generations. Who would have thought that thieves and idiots that naturally gravitate to the service of government could have invented such a miraculous thing: a crime against victims that are not even born? ‘When governmental debt is incurred, it necessitates the imposition of taxes, sometime in the future to pay the debt. Such taxes can be imposed or collected neither constitutionally nor practically. This debt has been accumulating for at least one hundred years. Constitutional taxes require the consent of those taxed. When the tax is necessitated before a man is born, he cannot give his consent, and is therefore unconstitutional. We should recall that the prohibition of “taxation without consent” was a major foundational stone of the American experiment. Also, it is a constitutional principle that those who are burdened with a tax must also receive benefits of the tax; (See, People v. Parks, 58 Cal. 624, which was carried to, and confirmed by, the Supreme Court; but, see ‘Reality Check’ below). For example, a tax levied in one county cannot be used to build a road in another county; or, a tax levied on American taxpayers cannot be used for the benefit of enemies of the United States (consider lend lease for Soviets in 1941, or the $10 billion to build retirement homes in Israel for former Soviet military officers, professionals and bureaucrats). When these Bolshevik functionaries learned the money was in the form of a loan, they told Congress, “We think we deserve” this booty: and Congress made it an outright gift, Los Angeles Times, “91 Feb 19, A-20; Ap 28, A-17; and Jun 23, A-12. Where burdens and benefits are separated by one, two or five generations, or by contrary political philosophies, the coupling is impossible; actually, unconstitutional. There are several other constitutional violations regarding, governmental debt; but these will suffice for now. The collection of taxes to redeem current governmental debt is not possible practically because, since it is a kind of cannibalization, taxes needed to redeem such debt must be imposed and collected by the generation that benefited from the debt. If this generation fails to redeem the debt before power passes from its hands, the debt becomes uncollectible; for, a victim generation will not cannibalize itself for the benefit of a dead generation ~ especially a previous generation that used following generations so badly. If Americans won't voluntarily cannibalize themselves, who will force them? After all, people and institutions around the world purchase US Treasuries with the understanding that somebody will tax following generations of Americans to extinction, Who? You won't like the answer: Red Chin: ‘The trouble is, however, that Chinese Judeo-Bolsheviks don't feel like they can do it alone, When Red Chinese took possession of the Panama Canal, they immediately set out to establish an ALLIANCE among Mexican and Columbian drug cartels, Chinese ‘Triads, the Red Army, and the Chinese Communist Party. It has since that time expanded to include several agencies of American governments: Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, IRS, Federal Reserve, Congress, and probably others. hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! angsaints What Price | redressone ‘You don't need to take my word for these developments: my main sources are official government documents — including testimony given before a Congressional sub-committee. I only introduce the topic here; more is, available in my article, ‘Anatomy of a General Plunder, Part 2” Since US Treasury securities are practically and constitutionally uncollectible, they are, ultimately, worthless. ‘We cannot necessarily sa income housing. ‘The language on the FR’s balance sheet indicates this debt is carried at face value. But face value is likely an over statement; for, the reason the FR buys these debt instruments is because the original issuer has experienced financial difficulty and needs a bailout that couldn’t be approved by Congress. Here, we must guess the real value. the same about US Agency debt. This debt represents mortgages secured by low- A major factor we should consider in making this guess is the fact that the FR has maintained an unprecedented low rate of interest for nearly six years (thru 2014 July). For that time period, short-term rates have ranged between zero and one half pereent; lon; (with much shorter periods of low interest), such levels produced bubbles for most or all types of capital assets (stocks, real estate, bonds). This time, no such bubble has occurred (except in equity markets). This leads to the conclusion that, when the FR next raises interest rates, the reaction in all capital markets will be characterized as unprecedented slaughters. I'm not alone in this opinion. term (10 years) have ranged between 2.5% and 3.5%. In past times Despite this consideration, let us mark this US Agency debt to 50% of its face value. So, for purposes of our examination: US Treasury debt is worthless, and Agency debt is marked down to $24 billion, Now, we are immediately confronted with a major problem: ‘How do we take this totally or nearly worthless paper off FR books?” Ordinarily, we would simply reverse the operation that put them on the books. If we gave such securities back to banks or federal agencies, we would require them to return an equal face value of curreney or bank reserves to us. But this is impossible for practical and circumstantial reasons. In the case of currency, more than 99% is held in private hands around the world. To get this cash would require a wave of repression the world has never seen before. It simply can't be done. In the ease of bank reserves, they consist of mere computer entries. And bank executives who collected this plunder are certain that they stole the amount fair and square. And, if'any bureaucrat attempted to force them to return such plunder... well, it wouldn’t be safe to fly on the same airplane as that bureaucrat. If, however, we could manage to reverse such transactions, it would cause all observers to seriously doubt the security of all dollar-cenominated assets; and would set off a reaction, or panic, that would crash financial markets around the globe in a matter of hours. No, we can’t reverse the operation by which the Federal Reserve acquired such securities. All we can do is, recognize them as zip, nada, worthless. This would allow liabilities (currency and bank reserves), created with the acquisition of US Treasuries, to continue to flow back and forth in the market place — and wishful thinking would rule for another day. hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! m9sastnot4 What Price |redressone Iwill qualify this and more later. Special Drawing Rights Certificate Account. The face value of this collateral is so insignificant relative to overall amounts involved that I wil disregard this item for the present purpose. Mortgage-Backed Securities. ‘The purchase of these MBS was part of the emergency operation by the FR in its attempt to save too-big-to-fail banks; they first appeared on the Fed's balance sheet, 2009 Jan 14. They are described, in a footnote of the Statistical Release, as, Guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae. Current face value of the securities, which is the remaining principal balance of the underlying mortgages. According to Congressional investigations (one and two), these are some of the most toxie MBS to be found; that’s why they were sold to the Federal Reserve. If mortgages serving as collateral for these MBS were sound, banks and other investors would still own them. I estimate that a true and current market value for these MBS would be somewhere between fifty and eighty percent of the stated value. However, since the FR is maintaining an interest rate of near zero in an attempt to revive the housing market — with negligible results, I expect a financial avalanche when the FR rai ss interest rates. When they are marked to market, the loss will be converted, according to current practice, to Treasury debt. But considerations of the prior paragraph are inconsequential because the purchase of these MBS by the FR was unconstitutional on the ground that Congress has no authority to compel one man or group of men to guarantee profits of another. This can constitutionally only be done thru the judicial power — not the legislative; and requires due process of law. (See Sharpless v. Mayor, 1853, 21 Penn 147 @ 168 and 174, later confirmed by the Supreme Court). Some people will argue against this interpretation; they would say that the FR is a privately owned corporation and, as such, is not limited by the constitution. I regard such objections as groundless - to use a polite word. The FR is a creation of Congress thru the FR Act of 1913. As such it is an agent of Congress. Thru the law of agency, an act of the agent is the act of the principal; and is subject to the same restrictions imposed on the principal. Since Congress has no authority to guarantee the profits of one man or group, neither can it delegate this nonexistent authority to the Federal Reserve. We do not justify robbery by interposing a tax-taker between a robber and his vietim. (See, State v. Wapello, (1862) 13 Iowa 388 @ 410.) What is the proper solution here? ‘The very least that I would suggest is that the purchase of MBS by the FR should be reversed. But, again, we encounter the same problem we had with US Treasuries; maybe less so. Perhaps they could be reversed; pethaps they couldn't, The least that could be done is to mark them to 70% of face value and leave them on the FR’s balance sheet and offset them with a charge to the FR's capital accounts. Thus, the MBS would be marked from $1,633 billion to $1,143 billion, With these constitutional and practical considerations, we are left with the following numbers. hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! angsastnot4 What Price |redressone liabilities "to be Bherble Assets Collateralized” |Gold Certificate 11|Currency_ 1,228) [Special DR zero[US Trea acctatFRINY) |__ 65 JUS debt: Reserve balances w'FR | 2,725 Treasury| zero) ‘Agency! 24 MBs 3143 Totabs:| 1,178) 4,018 Table 4. Eligible Assets and Collateralized liabilities adjusted for constitutional and practical considerations, 2014 Ap 16 (billions). (Source: Federal Reserve statistical release, H4.1, 2014 Ap 17) Now, we must make Eligible Assets = Liabilities “to be collateralized”. ‘We have yet to adjust the value of the “Gold Certificate’. With a book value of $11.037 billion for the certificate and $42.22 per troy ounce for the gold, we calculate the certificate represents a lien on 261 million troy ounces of gold. Working these numbers, we arrive at a dollar price for gold of ten thousand, nine hundred (10,900, rounded) that would collateralize curreney and currency equivalents issued by the FR. This assumes that gold alleged to be in Fort Knox is in metal form — as opposed to “receivable” form. The ‘Treasury lists its gold on a report titled “US International Reserve Position”; and the asset item of our interest is, described as, “gold (including gold deposits and, if appropriate, gold swapped)” It used to be simply, “gold”, Welcome to... ‘The Gold Carry Trade ‘This change was made in recognition of the Treasury's participation in the so-called gold carry trade. This carry trade first appeared in the early 1990s. By this activity, central banks lent gold to bullion banks (e. 9., Barclay's, Republic, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs et cetera) at one quarter to one percent interest. ‘These banks then sold the bullion and invested the proceeds in US ‘Treasury securities that paid three to five percent interest By the summer of 2001, various private newsletters (one, two, three) reported that 30% to 80% (that is: 10,000 to 26,000 tons) of central bank gold had gone into the carry trade, on a world-wide basis, in a supposed attempt to suppress the gold market. I suspect the real story is that this carry trade was a stratagem by the criminal elite to “legally” get gold away from central banks (probably using bank loans for the purpose). Thus, when currencies collapse, these criminal elite will possess gold and pay their paper debts with worthless paper. Ipsedressonewordprss.comiwhat ria! ang‘asin ‘What Price | eressone All this gold was sold into the market at prices ranging between $260 and $400 per troy ounce. Gold is now fluctuating around $1,350 (as of 2014 July). Thus, bullion banks are sitting on enormous losses relative to this carry trade. And, I don't see how they could have hedged their position in the futures markets; the amount involved would have overwhelmed such markets and would have driven large numbers of specialists (those who ‘work the pits) into bankruptcy by now. If only 15,000 tons of gold went into the carry trade (at $330/02), bullion banks would be sitting on losses of half a trillion dollars (using a gold price of $1,350); and we don’t count related expenses and interest. fall the central bank financial reports I examined (German, French, Italian, Japanese, Euro and others), each showed a line on their balance shect that read, “Gold and gold receivables"; and none separated the two categories. This, to me, seems to represent an open admission that gold people believe is possessed by the US Treasury and central banks is not all there. So, Ihave to guess how much gold, if any, is left at Fort Knox. If 50% is left, we have to double the earlier price to $21,800 per troy ounce. Now we have to pause a fow paragraphs to tie a few facts together. As noted, the FR shows that member banks (such as Citi Bank, Chase, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, among member banks of the FR system) have $2,725 trillion on deposit at the FR classified as “reserves”. Historically, this is a rather stunning number. For nearly fifty years, reserves of all members of the FR system steadily increased from $10 billion (in 1959) to $41 billion as of 2007 November; then exploded to its present number. Words hardly do it justice; here is a picture: ‘ity Yar of Roses ta PPPLETESEESTEAIIEEAISELLELES Chart 1: Member banks reserves from 1959 to 2014. (Source: FR statistical releases 114.1, various dates.) ‘The line to notice is the one that tops 2,500 at the right side of the chart: it represents total reserves of FR member hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! san9saints What Price|reressone banks. On this chart it barely registers for nearly fifty years. During that time, total reserves and “required” reserves were plus or minus 1% to 3% of each other. Now, the former adds to about $130 billion and the other adds to $2,725 billion, Why? Earlier, I volunteered the suggestion that the gold carry trade was a stratagem to allow members of the criminal elite to plunder central bank gold unnoticed. In the process, banks they control (Citibank, Chase et cetera) are now sitting on nearly current prices (not counting cartying and interest costs). half trillion dollars of losses because of the gold price difference between sale prices and I suggest that the unprecedented total reserves are regarded by the criminal elite as a means to recover their losses and to reward themselves with bonuses adding to one or two trillion. Why? Indeed, why not? They gave evidence of what they were doing (thru FR reports, see Anatomy of a General Plunder, part 1). And no one could put the pieces together; and more, no one thot to hold them accountable for crimes no one understood. Even if someone thot to hold them accountable, no one knew how. The knowledge needed for such accountability seems to be available only on this website (of an introductory nature only) and in my books. This also helps to explains why it would be impossible to recover what they have stolen by existing forums of redress (courts, legislatures, military). Recovery, as I've noted in many places and times, requires that we duplicate what American Founders did. (See my ‘Reality Check’ below.) We are not finished making “eligible assets’ included in our equation, a) “cash equivalents” driven by insurance on bank deposits; and b) foreign currencies issued by foreign private and central banks in exchange for dollar assets. liabilities “to be collateralized’; there are other factors that must be Insurance on Bank Deposits Currently, the government, thru the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, guarantees the safety of bank deposits up to $250,000. Hence, if a bank fails, the government will seize the bank and transfer all its depositors’ accounts, up to $250,000, to another, supposedly sound, bank. Depositors with accounts la will lose everything over that amount ~ no exception. I call these latter accounts, ‘mega accounts’, for the purpose of this essay. irger than $250,000 ‘Mega Accounts This is a problem for individuals and companies that have ‘cash’ positions over $250,000. I single-quote cash because, what they call cash is actually a combination of miniscule amounts of cash and very large amounts normally held in checking accounts. Some of these positions add to tens, even hundreds, of millions of dollars; in some eases, the total is over a billion. Ifa company had such a total in a checking account, it would suffer a catastrophic loss if the bank in question failed, hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! anesaints What Price|reressone One solution to this problem was/is a type of zero-balance deposit account. ‘The entire balance of a mega account ‘was used to purchase US ‘Treasury securities, supposedly the most secure investment on the planet. Thereafter, company checks presented each day for payment would be paid agai amount deposited was greater than the amount paid, the difference was used to purchase US Treasury securities, at the end of each banking day; thus, leaving a zero, or very low balance, in the company’s checking account. \st checks deposited on that day. If the Conversely, if the account had a net payment for the day, sufficient securities would be sold to pay all incoming checks and to bring the account to zero at the end of the day. This is why, when we examine balance sheets of large American companies, we find “cash and cash equivalents” listed as an asset item. ‘Thus, ‘cash’ positions of companies consisted of $10 million, or $100 million, in US Treasury securities and a checking account with a zero balance; and companies’ financial officers no longer had to worry about losing their ‘cash’ if their bank failed. Their peace of collectible against future generations of Americans to the end of time — altho, they did not express it in such terms. d was purchased with the belief that Treasury debt would be ‘Mortgage-Backed Securities Soon, another problem arose: there weren’t enough Treasury securities to meet demand from companies with ‘mega ‘cash’ positions. This demand appears to be a major factor regarding the development and growth of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS). One of the Congressional inquiries pertaining to the financial meltdown of 2007 (and counting) frequently referred to the almost insatiable demand for MBS by money centers around the world — but never explained what drove the demand (see Anatomy of a Financial Collapse). I learned of the connection between MBS and mega ‘cash’ positions from Vermont Trotter, see his essay on the topic, Welcome to the Machine, a very good summary of the history of MBS, (Vermont Trotter, judging by his recommended solution, is a collectivist. I like to use such as sources of information when they lament and explain such enormous crimes; they never suspect that what they lament is a consequence of their core belief.) Banks create these MBS by assembling four to five thousand residential mortgages into one package (one MBS) and dividing that package into ten to twenty tranches (similar, but not identical, to shares); thus, each tranch could have a face value ranging from $20 to companies wanting to temporarily park their ‘cash’ outside of banks. {0 million. These tranches soon became the favored investment for ‘This solution led to two major problems: 1) owing to the huge demand by companies with mega ‘cash’ positions, lending standards relative to home mortgages deteriorated to the level of naked fraud; and, 2) owing to the large number of MBS ~ or to criminal intent, the origination and trading of these MBS was done in wholesale violation of long-established property law regarding documentation of loans. With regard to the second problem, various commentators estimate that upwards of sixty million mortgages have clouded or destroyed chains of title — and banks cannot, or will not, produce documentation that establishes their authority to collect or foreclose on mortgages probably for fear of producing evidence of felonious activity. These two problems were natural consequences of the mandate of Congress, with the Community Reinvestment hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! sanesastnot4 What Price |redressone Act (as amended), to put un-creditworthy (subprime) borrowers in homes. It was facilitated by the Federal Reserve with unrealistically low interest rates. By 2006, some $15 trillion in residential mortgages served as collateral for MBS and half of that total was classified as high risk loans; namely, subprime, Alt A, loans that required little or no documentation, and home onal Report, Anatomy of a Financial Collapse... pdf page 269) equity loans, (See the Congress ‘To make matters even worse, some of these MBS were collateralized with student loans, Small Business Administration guaranteed loans, credit card loans, car lot loans and loans to mortgage servicers (companies that made mortgage payments missed by homeowners). (Federal Reserve press release, 2009 March 19) Tt appears that these mortgage servicers were/are shell companies invented by banks to maintain the fiction that Joans in default were valid assets. Banks would lend money to these shell companies who would use the money to make mortgage payments missed by homeowners; as a result, such defaulting loans did not have to be charged against income. Loans to these mortgage serv collateral for issued currency. Welcome to the Queen’s garden, 's were then sold to the Federal Reserve where they were used as The important fact regarding MBS, ‘mega accounts. If their real value is less than face amount, tens of thousands of companies, hedge, pension and mutual funds, and other types of organizations world wide will suffer eat s collateral to make up for the lost value of these MBS. What can that collateral be? For now, I see no other alternative but gold, ive to our question, is that they became a kind of default currency for and we must find some sstrophic lo ‘MBS serving as “currency and currency equivalents” Thave to guess the amount of MBS where individuals, companies and other entities park their cash. By a sample analysis of the Fortune list of the largest 500 American companies, I arrived at a ‘cash’ position of ‘$380 billions for the entire list, based on balance sheets dated 2010 thru 2011. And, I would be surprised if more than a few thousands of this total shows on any bank balance sheet. ‘Then we have to add numbers for wealthy individuals, other companies, hedge, mutual, pension funds et cetera et cetera. What is the amount of MBS that serve as “cash equivalents” for mega accounts? A few paragraphs above, I reported that Congressional investigations indicated that MBS amounted to a face value of $15 trillions. Is the entire amount used as “cash equivalents”? Let us be conservative... very conservative. Let’s choose $1.5 trillion for domestic mega accounts. Foreign investors bought these MBS also; foreign governments, also, offer to insure bank deposits. So, let’s set. aside another $1.5 trillion for the world outside America. Foreign currency issued against dollar assets The FR reports, for 2014 Ap 16, that it held $3.30: trillions of US Treasury securities and MBS “in custody for hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! s18sastnot4 What Price |redressone foreign official and international accounts”. This represents dollar assets accumulated by Foreign central (and, presumably, private) banks, and which they purchased with newly issued currency and currency equivalents within their own countries, Ordinarily, such international transactions would be settled by shipping gold in exchange for paper (or equivalent). However, in our case, the gold remains at Fort Knox; and dollars accumulated by foreign central banks are converted to US Treasury securities. In other words, these dollar assets are collateralized just as all others are: by ‘Treasury and Agency debt, MBS, and a gold certificate. ‘We have already established that Treasury and Agency debts are constitutionally and practically uncollectible — and ethically reprehensible; and that Congress, thru its agent the FR, has no authority to purchase MBS. That leaves the gold certificate Agency debt and MBS as collateral (Eligible Assets) for, Tiabinies "to be Gis Collateralized” [Gold Certificate 11|urrency 1,238) [Special DR Zero|US Trea acctat FRINY) | 65 JUS debt: Reserve balances w' FR | 2725 “Treasury| _zero|MBS as cash equivalents ‘Agency! 24] ‘domestic! 1,500) MBS 1143 foreign] 1,500) Foreign Bsuances 3,301 Totak:| 1,178) 10,319 Table 5. Currency and currency equivalents (foreign and domestic) issued against Fort Knox gold, MBS and some Agency debt, 2014 Ap 16 (billions). (Source: Federal Reserve statistical release, H4.1, 2014 Ap 17.) To redeem this total with 261 million troy ounces of Fort Knox gold, some Agency debt and MBS held by the FR would require a dollar price of thirty five thousand (35,000, rounded); if half of Fort Knox gold is missing, 70,000. A Reality Check Let's be realistic: we won’t see such prices in a day, maybe not in a year, maybe not in five. The delusion that a house of cards (US Treasuries) is a stable and secure collateral for currency will die hard, The vast majority of men will die or kill rather than give up their wishful thinking. But die it will. The false flag operation of 2001 September 11 and the bailout of 2008 were acts of unprecedented desperation — and indicate the criminal elite sense the end is near. As more people sense the same, the rate of economic destruction will accelerate to an avalanche ~ until it will no longer be possible to measure the value of anything with dollars, or any other paper currency. The constitutional considerations explained above were merely academic in nature. I would be astounded if any judge in this country would give a constitutional decision regarding those considerations. I don’t think there is a judge that stupid; he, or she, knows, and a lot of other people know, that, if he gave such a decision, it would not hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! sangsaints What Price|reressone ‘be a wise idea to fly on the same airplane with that judge; it would plow into some private or public office building — especially one where a team of accountants is trying to trace how trillions of dollars went missing from the Defense Department... or the Social Security Administration... or the Department of Housing and Urban Development, ‘We must deal with unprecedented crimes, and with perpetrators who are capable of unprecedented desperation. All American judges understand their marching orders: strictly adhere to constitutional principles where socialists, crime bosses, felons or crooked politicians are involved; throw such principles out the window when dissidents are involved. If you don’t believe this, let me tell you what happened to my customers and me. On second thought, perhaps I shouldn't; you'll turn white, and go without peaceful sleep for several weeks. With regard to the gold prices I have suggested above, no one should expect to see them any time soon; at least not within two or three years. Such prices, however, are inevitable. Once people successfully complete their search for dependable counterparties for their cash positions, it will not be possible to measure gold with dollars. ‘The first counterparties to be questioned were banks. When governments guaranteed bank deposits at amounts far below mega accounts, it guaranteed banks could not be dependable for amounts over the insured amount. People and companies chose US Treasury debt as counterparties for their mega accounts. But here, they only examined the immed generations of Americans. ‘ounterparty, and gave no thought regarding ultimate counterparties, unborn ‘When the supply of Treasury debt could not meet demand for mega-accounts’ parking lots, attention turned to mortgage-backed securities. Counterparties here, paper secured by thousands of homes for each security, looked very reasonable — until somebody scratched the surface and found lending standards and document transfers significantly at variance from principles and law hundreds, even thousands, of years old Putting it all together Topics we have explored are of historic proportions. How else can we explain a policy ~ facilitated by media and government, banks and courts, legislatures and educational systems — that resulted in the violation of 4,000- years-old property law regarding 50 to 60 million properties? What conclusion can we draw from this policy? Let us focus on just two facts: 1) the $1.228 trillion of FR notes “to be collateralized” and 2) the $1.633 of MBS held as “eligible” collateral. From 1959 to late 2007 (records prior to 1959 were not available), “eligible” as from one another. Now, “eligible” to “FR notes issued” is more than 300% its historical proportion. (In Anatomy of a General Plunder, part 2, | demonstrate that the Federal Reserve deliberately triggered, in early December of 2007, the financial crisis that now roils the world.) ts and FR notes “to be collateralized” rarely varied by more than 1% to 3% ‘What happened? | suggest that institutions that hold large amounts of US Treasuries came to the conclusion that such securities ‘were uncollectible; and demanded collateral that had that had more substantial value, such as land or structures; namely, MBS, Who are those institutions? The central bank of China holds over a trillion in US Treasuries; Japan, hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! ss19saints What Price|reressone over $800 billion; Oil Exporting Countries, nearly half a trillion. Every major country on the globe has issued currency backed by FR currency in fractions ranging from 20% to 50%, possibly more. If US Treasuries are uncolleetible, banking systems built on FR currency evaporate in a matter of hours if too many people suddenly realize the flimsy nature of FR currency collateral. So, instead relying on the US Treasury to seize wages of American taxpayers to redeem foreign held dollars; Americans’ homes will be seized. And who will seize those homes? Judeo-Bolsheviks have had plenty of experience perpetrating genocides and general plunder; they have been doing such continuously for at least 4,000 years (Exodus #23). During that time they have learned that a native criminal class becomes dysfunctional after 5, 10 or 15 killings, or seizures. This is the reason Red China forged an ALLIANCE with Mexican and Columbian drug cartels, Chinese Triads, the Red Army, Congress, DoJ and half a dozen other such criminal organizations (Anatomy of a General Plunder, part 2). Who will be the first to fall under the ax? That's easy. They are known today as “preppers”: people who “prepare” for a crisis: they move to the woods, buy a cabin, stock large amounts of food, guns, and gold, or any combination thereof, At least unsanitized history tells us they are the first to fall, During the French Revolution, monopolists and bankers withheld food supplies from markets; the resulting turmoil aused peasants and shopkeepers to withhold food and reasonably alert Frenchmen to hoard the same. French terrorists, Robespierre, Danton et cetera, blamed peasants, shopkeepers and hoarders for the shortages and long lines; their supplies were seized, they were then paraded thru the Revolutionary Tribunal on their way to the guillotine. The same happened during the Russian Revolution, with improvements in terminology: Kulaks, “complainers”, “obstructionists”, “ant were paraded thru a Revolutionary Tribunal before receiving a shot in the nape of the neck. “speculators”, hooligans, ‘Their supplies were seized and they socialists”... among othe All three slaughters — French, Russian and American — were, and will be, orchestrated by Judeo-Bolsheviks (see, Building an American Schutzstaffel). There is no reason they should do differently in America what they did in the other two. If you have any doubts regarding their ages-long policy of mass genocide and general plunder, read, Exodus #23, parts one and two. Part 1 is derived solely from articles found in The Los Angeles Times; two, mainly from Judeo-Bolshevik fundamental law: the Law of Moses. In the meantime, the world seems to be searching for the medium with the ultimate counterparty: gold. Here, ‘counterparty’ should actually be plural; for, counterparties for gold are every person on the planet who provides labor, services or products to the market - there is a very active market for gold all over the world: time, you see, has shown man that gold is the superior medium by which to preserve his labor. The solution to this problem will not come from Congressmen or professors, judges or military; they all look forward to collecting up to $250,000 a year in retirement checks from retirement systems largely or entirely funded by taxpayers. And, they will do nothing to threaten their collection of booty. Look at Ron Paul: one Congressman in two hundred and twenty years who rejected such booty. We must endure infinity to find another two or three. The solution will come from the private sector; individual by individual, company by company. hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! sanesaints What Price|reressone Ifyou want the advantages of a gold-based currency, you, along with many others, must establish it; and it must be done thru a system of First-Amendment assemblies. You can do it by trial and error (which will take 400 years and oceans of blood, according to the English example); or you can employ my knowledge and experience and shorten the time span to 5 to 10 years. My knowledge is partly available by my writings; my experience and remainder of my knowledge, thru my personal involvement. Before you will be ready for the time-shortened alternative, you must learn the history, law and procedures of redress. (Links in next paragraph) This is necessary because you will need to collect the power needed to protect yourselves before you establish a gold-based curreney. Without this sequence, you will only embark on a mission of suicide. {As to how a solution should be done, we must learn lessons of the American Founding Bra. I had to search dozens of old and lost law and history books to discover these lessons. The result was my book, The Lost Right, edition 3.5. This book deals with the general principles of redress, from start to finish; Here is an introduction to the history, law and procedures of redress. And don't hesitate to have your lawyers verify my findings. Comments, Notice Please take notice that all Comments will be moderated. Normally, I check in with this website once every 4-5 days. Currently, however, I'm dealing ‘eause my response time to take up to two weeks. In the meantime, please be patient. Thanks for ‘iting, AL vith two or three major issues that may ‘Timely, and related, pages, ‘When Less is Better: Looking for an investment with a return of 10%-20%? Or would you like something better, Tike an investment with an annual return of 5%-10%. Ah, wait, how can this be... the second better than the first? The first is a dollar denominated return; the second would be gold-denominated. Thus, with the first a RETURN of capital and interest would eventually amount to zero value (with a dollar collapse). The second would give you the appreciation of physical gold plus 5% per year. No, I can't guarantee anything... {As I've noted a few times, if anything that I propose on this website or in my books will lead to actions, they will require resources well-beyond my personal means. In other words, I am almost stretched to the breaking point, and ready to quit and “disappear” for 10-15 years. My living quarters, for example, are very hostile to my work and health requirements... (Read More) ‘Ppip/F... gaming taxpayers... again: With passage of the so-called “Troubled Asset Relief Program’ of 2008 (TARP), Congress gave authority to the US Treasury to conduct a general plunder of American taxpayers (alive and yet-to-be born). Of course, to enact is one thing; to implement is quite another, as functionaries at the Treasury soon discovered. Over early months of 2009, such functionaries would give conclusive proof that hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! amosaints What Price | redressone governments are gathering places fo bureaucrats and the Chosen Ones from too-big-to-fail banks to invent a procedure by which the plunder could be distributed in idiots and thieves. This was demonstrated by the struggle by Treasury sportsman-tike, all-American manner. PPIP/F is the acronym for an ineffable entity Failure of Power. We hear and see many stories about false flags perpetrated, and that will be perpetrated, by governments and their string pullers ~ big ban} think that, with all the publicity, bandit and useful-idiot classes would refrain from such false flags; yet, it doesn’t seem to slow them in the least. How do we recognize a false flag... and why are they perpetrated with impunity? It's because Americans have the power to correct any grievance that could be named... and they choose not to use that power. There are three main reasons for this failure... (full article) , munitions makers and the cut, burn and poison industry, You'd Who Owns City Hall? Several years ago I stumbled across CAFRs, Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. These are issued by cities, counties, special districts, states, among others. Of all those I examined (several dozen), the entity in question had enough cash on hand to operate for up to six years without collecting a penny of taxes. I eventually learned that California governments (city, county, state et cetera) had amassed surpluses equal to $20,000 to $50,000 for every man, woman and child in the state, depending on whether you read the foot notes or not. Two questions eventually arose in my mind, “Why are they still collecting taxes?” and “When do I get my dividend?” (See my other articles on this topic, Of Lords and Cattle and Tale of Two Bribes.) Walter Burien and 1 are the pioneers that brought this topic out of darkness. When we did our work, CAFRs were comprised of about 120 pages of financial statements and foot notes; now these statements and foot notes are limited to about a quarter of a page. Lost Right (The) Among the many rights officially declared by American Founders is the right to withhold taxes until the government redresses grievances. This was adopted unanimously by the Continental Congress as one of the “three grand rights” intended to be secured by the Revolution. And who knows it? Here, in this book, is the history, law and procedures of this lost right. ‘Redress for Pedophilia: If we are to have redress regarding a very long list of grievances, we need to operate on a very large stage. And to do that, we need an issue that moves large numbers of people to outrage and readily propels them to action. The kidnapping, torture and murder of children is that issue. Even convicted felons get in on the act. Tt seems to be general knowledge that when a child molester is placed among convicted felons, the life expectancy of the former is 2-3 days. Itis also general knowledge that no one is employed by criminal and useful- idiot classes but those who are subject to blackmail; and a sizeable fraction of them are child molesters. Here is a feast handed to the dissident community on a golden platter; for dissidents could use this issue to take down almost anyone perpetrating grievances... and dissidents do nothing with this gift. It puzzles me... until I remind myself that, fully, 90% to 95% of all dissident organizations on this planet are counter-intelligence operations. The only question is, “Are they controlled by witting cointel agents, or are they just plain dumb?” It doesn't really matter; for, a controlled dupe can wreak more damage among dissidents than a conscious agent. You can identify a cointel operation by its refusal to allow any discussion regarding historically-proven redress among themselves or followers. It seems the only place on this planet where this information is available is this website. ‘Turn Back the Clock. Have I discovered the fountain of youth? Men frequently declare that they would like to go back in time to re-live certain events or to take back unkind words. Well, T can't send men back in time; so, T haven't invented a time machine. But I can reduce one’s biological age to the condition one should have had as a hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! vanesaints What Price|reressone teenager. In my case, I've reduced my biological age by 50 or more years. So, how can I prove or demonstrate this claim? My primary exercise is hitting baseballs (go to YouTube, search for “1668-85"); I've had many former pro and college players tell me that, if I played competitive ball at the level of a major college, I would “wreck,” or “Tead,” the league with a “.700 average”; that I'm a “hitting phenomenon”, among other comments. Those who play college ball are about 20 years of age; I'm over 70. Thi arrangement that prevents me from complying completely with my health regimen. Still, 'm looking forward to another fifty years with the health and physical condition of a near-professional athlete. Thus, I fully expect, at the age of 120, to have the same or better condition. If it comes to pass, I'l have another 50 years. It raises the question, ‘Will it ever stop?" Check back in 50 years and I'll let you know. Better yet, maybe you, also, would like to give ita try. Your age makes no difference: my regimen will benefit anyone, at any age: from a year before conception to elderly. It is especially important for the young; for, if they do not get proper nutrients at proper is what I have done despite a current living times, they will not develop to their full potential. No, I can’t erase those unwanted events or unkind words; but I can give you the strength and youthful condition to play another, and better, game. Is the Mortgage Crisis the Mother of Opportunity? The mortgage crisis revealed that those banks too-big- to-fail produced 50 million mortgages with seriously clouded titles. It produced a situation where no one could provide lawful authority to collect or foreclose on such mortgages. In other words, property law 4,000 years old had been violated on a national scale. So far, solutions require that bank shareholders, bank depositors, and taxpayers suffer losses -while those who engineered the crisis waltz away each with millions in plunder. What can bbe done about it — without creating a new class of victims? Please see the full article. ‘Share this hpredessonewordpress.comha-price! san9