[A]nd, without any deception or evil disposition towards those whose silver they
accept for purifying, they should cleanse the silver, and without practicing any
deception in weighing it, they should change the purified silver into denarii.
If it be reported that any one has acted contrary to his oath, he will be tried
by the judgment of God; and if it be proved that he acted contrary to his oath
he will lose his hand...
/
Modern states gave control of monetary policy and markets to the barons of
global finance. The experiment has resulted in the same disasterous outcomes as
before. The barons have debased the coinage and corrupted the markets. The state
lost control of the currency as central banks allowed the barons in banks and
shadow banks to "create" money from securitisation and quantitative easing. The
state lost control of markets as the SEC, FSA and others allowed those same
barons to set up alternative trading platforms beyond any public scrutiny and to
bastardise public exchanges with algorithmic trading and synthetic instruments
priced against fraudulent reference rates.
Now that the whole system is
falling apart, banks and bondholders - the robber barons and false coiners of
our times - want to take more money from depositors and taxpayers to prop it up.
The state, the taxpayers and the depositors should not be compelled to
protect
bank bondholders. Central bankers and market regulators should stop being
complicit in debasement of the currency and corruption of the markets - taking
the silver of the state and of the poor.
Enough already. Chop off their
hands.
http://londonbanker.blogspot.com/2013/03/chop-off-their-hands.html
