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tama

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3. Obfuscation
Mon Oct 1, 2012, 08:27 PM
Oct 2012

First, it's not federal government but Federal Reserve which is semi-private institution owned by private banks. A business that became pure Ponzi scheme after leaving Bretton Woods and gold standard.

Second, "monetary sovereignty" doesn't help if and when it is not accepted as international currency - ie. when you can't buy oil with dollars.

Third, the reason the question is not 'if' but 'when' is that USD like all other FIAT currencies is a humongous Ponzi scheme: system needs to constantly create more debt than can be paid.

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