{"id":11277,"date":"2010-09-28T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/the-politics-of-gold\/"},"modified":"2010-09-28T11:13:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T11:13:02","slug":"the-politics-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/the-politics-of-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The price of gold has topped $1300 an ounce.&#0160; And this while inflation is low.&#0160; The upswing is driven mainly by the fear of inflation.&#0160; In order to handle otherwise unsustainable levels of debt, the government will resort to &#39;monetizing&#39; it, i.e., printing money and causing inflation.&#0160; By counterfeiting its own currency, a government steals real wealth from its citizens.&#0160; Is this acceptable to you?&#0160; If not, you may wish to register your disapprobation come November 2nd.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">For more insight, see Thomas Sowell&#39;s <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/28\/politics_versus_gold_107327.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Politics Versus Gold<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of gold has topped $1300 an ounce.&#0160; And this while inflation is low.&#0160; The upswing is driven mainly by the fear of inflation.&#0160; In order to handle otherwise unsustainable levels of debt, the government will resort to &#39;monetizing&#39; it, i.e., printing money and causing inflation.&#0160; By counterfeiting its own currency, a government steals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/28\/the-politics-of-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Politics of Gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}