Sharky:

Yes! I have an enormous problem with the banking sector and the all too cozy relationship our "central bankers" have with them. It seems all too frequently, the central bankers exists to keep the phony, fraudulent, lying, cheating bankers in their $3,000 suits and $500 shoes. Mostly at the expense of the common person.

The reality is that our central bankers are adminstering a monetary system with no grounding in reality. They print copious ever expanding amounts of of paper with a pretty picture of some real old person long since dead, which in reality have no more real value than if my grandchildren cut up some paper and drew some pictures of a bunch of old men with whiskers on them and marked them as $100 bills.

Even the Swiss have now delinked from any precious metal backing as of recent. The Swiss, up unil about a year ago, linked their currency at a 40% gold backing. Now there is no currency in the world that is linked to any hard asset. Merely an empty promise of nothing.

How is this for a marketing plan? Lets have Connacher fill up drums of oil and sell them as money at the value of WTI or Brent crude. It would be a note saying there is one barrel of crude oil on deposit. At least that would have some basis in "true" value. Not the phony baloney paper our governments are so delighted that we are willing to accept.

Though I am intentionally being facetious, my predicton is that eventually, money will have to be linked to something of "true value". Otherwise, money becomes meaningless. Only pieces of bogus paper!

Brian