Not exact matches
That led me to the complete scam of central
banking,
fiat currency, and the fractional
reserve system.
One of his views that always stuck with me on that subject, at least as a starting point for thinking about it, was that it was somewhat nonsensical to talk about what «equilibrium exchange rates» should be in a world of
fiat currencies and fractional
reserve banking.
(As an aside, equilibrium means «no tendency to change,»
fiat means deriving its value from law rather than some underlying commodity backing, and fractional
reserve means that
banks hold only a fraction of deposits on
reserve, loaning the rest out.).
Jamie Dimon is a Wall Street insider, JP Morgan has made billions off of centralized
fiat currency and fractional
reserve banking.
I know
fiat money has its problems, and so does fractional
reserve banking, but if you are going to propose a solution, perhaps one that fits the basics of how a well - run
bank at low leverage would work would be a good place to start.
To my understanding this perfectly matches how fractional -
reserve banking (involving
fiat money) works.
Accordingly, only when we recognise that monetary central planning is the ultimate source of our financial and economic distemper, and when it either collapses or is consigned to the dustbin of history, and when 100 % -
reserve banking and sound money replace fractional
reserve and central
banking and
fiat currency, will the ruinous cycle of boom and bust become as thing of the past.
As the realisation of the systemic weakness of
fiat currencies becomes apparent contrasted with the groundswell of cryptocurrency, the executive committee of central
banks, including governors, presidents and chairpersons - will call emergency meetings to exercise their prerogative to deviate from the current investment policy for
reserves management.
Cryptocurrencies with automated value - pegging mechanisms, such as NuBits and BitUSD, have suffered repeated failures due to malfunction and lack of adoption, while companies that hold centralized, one - to - one
reserves in
fiat, such as Tether, have proven vulnerable to the whims of
banks and governments.
Moreover, if bitcoin becomes one of the
reserve currencies of the global economy by targeting the $ 40 trillion offshore
banking market, $ 8 trillion gold market, and the $ 50 trillion
fiat currency market, governments will need to have a supply of bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies as the leading financial authorities.
Central
bank issued digital
fiat currency using distributed ledger and blockchain technology is a way for governments to protect foreign currency
reserves, reduce costs, improve the ease of doing business and a number of other benefits that can help stimulate economic growth.»
Due to Tether's lack of enough publically released
bank audits, there are rumors that Tether does not actually have enough
fiat in
reserves to redeem all Tether tokens with US dollars if the need would arise.
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