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sfpcjock

(1,936 posts) Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:09 PM Jan 2012

Ron Paul is going to base the currency on Spanish Doubloons

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Ron Paul is going to base the currency on Spanish Doubloons (Original Post) sfpcjock Jan 2012 OP

no way! mdmc Jan 2012 #1

What happened to Chile? FrenchieCat Jan 2012 #2

Da Loon loves doubloons? The Genealogist Jan 2012 #3

I shouldn't even bring this up... sfpcjock Jan 2012 #4

gotta have a lot of respect for a guy whose son decides he doesn't like the name his father zbdent Jan 2012 #5

Cutting them up to make change is going to be a problem........... Historic NY Jan 2012 #6

Sure, he's a nut, but some of his supporters pintobean Jan 2012 #7

More like going to base the currency on a spittoon Autumn Jan 2012 #8

mdmc

(29,066 posts)

1. no way!

Reply to sfpcjock (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:10 PM

Jan 2012

FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)

2. What happened to Chile?

Reply to sfpcjock (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:12 PM

Jan 2012

Oh, yeah....that was Newt!

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)

3. Da Loon loves doubloons?

Reply to sfpcjock (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:13 PM

Jan 2012

Go figure!

sfpcjock

(1,936 posts)

4. I shouldn't even bring this up...

Reply to sfpcjock (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2012, 10:16 PM

Jan 2012

Uncle Milty Friedman said to replace the Fed with a computer: it produces a 3% increase in the money supply every year.

Greenspan blew it up in good times to spin the real estate bubble for Bush, but Paul doesn't seem to understand that, and doing that would have worked just fine