http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/4020/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/fiat_currency_and_emerging_police_state <p>“Fiat” is money with no intrinsic value beyond whatever an issuing government is able to enforce. When it enjoys a monopoly as currency, fiat inevitably turns the free market functions of money inside out. Instead of being a store of value, the currency becomes a point of plunder through monetary policies such as quantitative easing. Instead of greasing society as a medium of exchange, the currency acts as a powerful tool of social control.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/fiat_currency_and_emerging_police_state#comments fiat currency Money News Article Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:11:07 +0000 snowdog2012 23951 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/change_we_can%E2%80%99t_believe <p>At current metal prices it costs 2.4 cents to make a penny and 11.2 cents to make a nickel. This week President Obama asked Congress for permission to change the mix of metal that goes into these coins, because apparently the zinc and tinfoil they’re made of now is just too expensive.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/change_we_can%E2%80%99t_believe#comments fiat currency Money News Article Sat, 18 Feb 2012 03:34:59 +0000 MuslimNonarchist 19734 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/bitcoins_lead_dev_give_presentation_cia_hq_june_2011 <p>I want to get this out in the open because it is the kind of thing that will generate conspiracy theories: I'm going to give a presentation about Bitcoin at CIA headquarters in June at an emerging technologies conference for the US intelligence community.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/bitcoins_lead_dev_give_presentation_cia_hq_june_2011#comments fiat currency New Technology News Article Thu, 28