The following is a brief guide on how money is made:
You need a central bank, plenty of paper and some ink. A
silver lining through each note and a watermark will distinguish it from
monopoly money.
An even quicker way is to type in some figures on a keyboard
that will transmit to a computer’s hard disk, and the central bank has just
created digital money. Since January 2009, the Bank of England created £375
billion in digital money using precisely this method.
Sadly, the British economy is calculated in terms of how to
make money, lots of it, and very quickly. It is one reason why City bankers can
give themselves big salaries and top them up once a year with even bigger
bonuses. They may cause the banks to crash, as happened in 2007 and 2008, and so-by risk causing the whole economy to crash too.
But when this happens, the Bank of England, which is our central bank, will use some paper and ink, or a keyboard, to replenish the banks and the economy, and everything will return to normal: top salaries, bonuses and the high life of Riley. These salaries in fact will be increased with a vengeance, so the City bankers will always come out of it on top.
But when this happens, the Bank of England, which is our central bank, will use some paper and ink, or a keyboard, to replenish the banks and the economy, and everything will return to normal: top salaries, bonuses and the high life of Riley. These salaries in fact will be increased with a vengeance, so the City bankers will always come out of it on top.
So now we know how to make plenty of money. It’s so easy,
it’s a joke.
What Is this Money
Worth?
The money circulated by the Bank of England is not really
worth anything, because it has nothing to back it, meaning it is not even worth
the paper it is printed on. Then there is the fact that hundreds of billions of
pounds of it is digital, whereby it exists only on computer screens animated by
a hard disk.
If you had gone to an English market stall one hundred years
ago and tried purchasing some items with a piece of paper worth nothing, they
would have positively believed you were cracking a joke. You’d have been
expected to pay with silver coins, copper coins, or a banknote to which
corresponded a set amount of gold stored away in a vault in the Bank of
England.
As it stands today, our money does not correspond to any
assets which can guarantee its value, meaning the British State is printing
money that is worth nothing. Although the Bank of England does hold around $15
billion US worth of our national gold reserves (around £10 billion), this
amount would only suffice to cover a fraction of the currency in circulation in
Britain. By contrast, the British Treasury does hold £1.3 trillion in public
debt!
France and Italy each hold gold reserves about eight times
higher than Britain does, even though the population of each of these countries
is about the same as Britain’s. Germany’s gold reserves are even greater, and
all Eurozone countries together could probably prop up their common currency,
the euro, with enough gold to prevent it from crashing in time of a financial
crisis, which could happen if confidence in paper currencies suddenly collapsed.
Britain’s pound, though, would be in a woeful position. It
would literally fall to shreds on the currency exchange, imports would become
extremely expensive including oil and gas, and even a Chinese T shirt would
become unaffordable.
Confidence in the
Present Monetary System
We need to understand that most of the money in circulation
in Britain has not been printed –
either in paper form or in a digital version – by the Bank of England, but has
been “created” and lent out in the form of loans by commercial banks, meaning
that commercial banks electronically create money that does not, at least in
theory, really exist.
This particular detail is important, especially if we
consider that the pound’s value in relation to other currencies is calculated
in accordance with the amount of pounds issued by the central bank, which is
the Bank of England, and not in relation to the amount of pounds “created” by
the commercial banks.
So we know the secret to creating lots of money, it’s
quite simple: the Bank of England and the commercial banks do it all the time.
We should also have understood that this money is guaranteed by the sole paper
it is printed on, or by a computer’s hard disk, plus a gigantic public debt of
£1.3 trillion, and an official private debt also of £1.3 trillion.
Actually the private debt in Britain is believed to be a lot higher.
All this does not inspire confidence, so we may legitimately
accept that our present monetary system could simply fall down overnight like a
pack of cards once the door opens and a slight breeze enters the room. That is,
once confidence in monopoly-style money is no longer forthcoming.
Britain's Economic Recovery Prediction:
http://celticbritannia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/britains-economic-recovery-prediction.html