Hey, if you have a problem with leaving the gold standard, better write to Nixon.

Actually, oops - he's dead. Well, you can still find many of his staffers within the Republican Party. Cheney was one of Nixon's boys.

Anyway, Napoleon was a greater man than almost any gold analyst, and one of his most famous sayings is something along the lines of "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

I wouldn't call it malicious for the bankers to force successive Rep. & Dem. governments to rewrite laws to benefit the banker class! That's what all corporations do. They all own governments.

In fact, if the US actually had a labour party, or any sort of powerful organized labour movement, you'd see labour forcing the government to rewrite laws to benefit the unionized class. And if there were environmentalists with power in the US, they'd force the government to rewrite laws to benefit the environment. Those with the most power get to run the government like puppets.

What is perfectly valid to complain about is that the bankers have rewritten US laws, not to benefit them, but to help screw everything up. Clinton's extermination of all financial regulations is one great example. Of course the banks go and get bailed out by the government afterwards - they still control government; but the fact is that banks, lobbying for fewer regulations, have caused the financial mess they've now gotten themselves into.

Greed, selfishness, and lack of foresight. There's no secret underground base at Bohemian Grove where the Reptilians gather to plan the collapse of fiat currencies: there doesn't have to be. Greed, selfishness, and lack of foresight are what got y'all here.

You want bankers to not be greedy? My own suggestion would be to do what they do in Europe - hang them by their intestines from the streetlights every 30-50 years. That is the reason that the European sovereign debt crisis is causing worry in financial markets: over in Europe, they tend to react badly to capitalists exploiting the slave classes, eg by confiscating trillions of your dollars to bail out their own stupid mistakes and pay for their own bonuses in the process.