Of Money and Metals: The Operation of a Free Money Supply Explained

By David Mint

Debt and money, far from being complimentary, are the economic equivalent of opposing natural forces. One takes from the future to provide for the present, the other takes from the past towards the same end.
Of Money and Metals: The Operation of a Free Money Supply Explained is Volume II in the "Why what we use as Money Matters" series.
Of Money and Metals presents the fallacies of the current day practice of circulating debt in the place of money and explains the urgent need for and the operation of a free money supply.
This volume also explores the phenomenon of Bitcoins and digital currencies.
Circa 2013, for some odd reason, there seems to be an abundance of debt and a dearth of money in the world. The world as we know it is perilously out of balance.
How can this be? Why are things so far out of balance? In the interest of time, we will sum up what is otherwise a long and painful explanation in the following way: Roughly 100 years ago, by decree of the financial authorities, debt was declared to be money. Ever since then, man has lived in a state of economic confusion.
On one hand, man has seen an unprecedented level of technological advances and a resulting rise in his standard of living. On the other hand, on net, he, or someone acting in his name, has borrowed an unprecedented amount of money from the future in order to achieve these advances and consequent rise in his living standards.
How is this possible? Didn’t simply declaring that debt is money relieve man of having to save? After all, if everyone simply assents to accepting promises to pay in the future for goods or services which are delivered or performed today, haven’t we trumped the need for savings, the Yang, as it were?
More to the point, have the laws of nature with regards to money been permanently suspended or altered?
If only it were so. Unfortunately, the longer man labors under the false assumption that debt is money, the greater the pain which will be incurred by mankind as nature unilaterally brings the earth into balance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Mint
• Release date: Jan 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301445189

David Mint

David is happily married with two children and lives in Portland, Oregon where he has pondered monetary theory and other less pressing but infinitely more entertaining matters since 2006. He has travelled extensively in the United States and has resided in Nebraska, Colorado, Spain, and Bolivia. He has a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Colorado State University and an MBA from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain with over 18 years of experience in Accounting, Finance, Treasury, and Information Systems Consulting positions both in the United States and Spain. He is the creator of The Mint, which presents fresh ideas on Economics, Monetary Theory, and Politics. You can read The Mint at http://www.davidmint.com and you may contact him at [e-mail].

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Of Money and Metals

The Operation of a Free Money Supply Explained

Why what we use as Money Matters - Volume II

By David Mint

Published by The Wilcox Trading Company

Copyright 2013 The Wilcox Trading Company

Portland, Oregon

Smashwords edition: January 2013

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Cover design by David Mint at WDesign

Adaptation of a photograph taken by David Mint of a collection of Canadian, Bolivian, and freely minted coins, circa 2013

Table of Contents

Balance: An introduction

The Keynesian Nightmare

Debt: The Barbarous Relic

The Operation of a Free Money Supply Explained

Free Money Refutes Gresham’s Law

Conclusion

Epilogue: Is Fiduciary money really money or cleverly disguised debt?

Are Bitcoins Money? The concept of digital currency and the desperate need for a Free Money supply

About the Author

Balance: An introduction

We have observed that there is a perfect balance in God’s creation. Some call it a yin and yang, male and female, mercy and justice, freedom and slavery, heat and cold. For every extreme, there is a force which, given enough time, will work to counteract the excesses wrought by the seemingly uninhibited operation of its polar opposite.

It should come as no surprise, then, that in the economic sphere, debt and money fall into the same category of opposing natural forces. One takes from the future to provide for the present, the other takes from the past towards the same end.

Simple, right? Male, female, Yin, Yang, case closed.

Yet circa 2013, for some odd reason, there seems to be an abundance of debt and a dearth of money in the world. The world as we know it is perilously out of balance.

How can this be? Why are things so far out of balance? In the interest of time, we will sum up what is otherwise a long and painful explanation in