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Gold Money Foundation

Gold Money Foundation. Title Slide Box. Title & Headline. Title & Headline. Gold Money. Private Currency James Turk 3 March 2011 Digital Money Forum London. Document slug: date/pp #. Title Slide Box. Title & Headline. Title & Headline. Money & currency. Gold Money.

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Gold Money Foundation

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  1. GoldMoney Foundation

  2. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline GoldMoney Private Currency James Turk 3 March 2011 Digital Money Forum London Document slug: date/pp #

  3. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Money & currency GoldMoney • Money is a mental tool that enables economic calculation Document slug: date/pp #

  4. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Money & currency GoldMoney • Money is a mental tool that enables economic calculation • unchanged throughout history Document slug: date/pp #

  5. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Money & currency GoldMoney • Money is a mental tool that enables economic calculation • unchanged throughout history • Currency is a medium of exchange Document slug: date/pp #

  6. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Money & currency GoldMoney • Money is a mental tool that enables economic calculation • unchanged throughout history • Currency is a medium of exchange • improves as a result of technological innovations Document slug: date/pp #

  7. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Money & currency GoldMoney • Money is a mental tool that enables economic calculation • unchanged throughout history • Currency is a medium of exchange • improves as a result of technological innovations • essential nature has fundamentally changed Document slug: date/pp #

  8. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Money & currency GoldMoney • Money is a mental tool that enables economic calculation • unchanged throughout history • Currency is a medium of exchange • improves as a result of technological innovations • essential nature has fundamentally changed • “government currency” or “private currency” Document slug: date/pp #

  9. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 Document slug: date/pp #

  10. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 • Newton’s Gold Standard, 1700-1914 Document slug: date/pp #

  11. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 • Newton’s Gold Standard, 1700-1914 • Peel’s Bank Act, 1844 Document slug: date/pp #

  12. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 • Newton’s Gold Standard, 1700-1914 • Peel’s Bank Act, 1844 • Keynesian revolution Document slug: date/pp #

  13. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 • Newton’s Gold Standard, 1700-1914 • Peel’s Bank Act, 1844 • Keynesian revolution • “The gold standard is already a barbarous relic.” J.M. Keynes, 1923 Document slug: date/pp #

  14. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 • Newton’s Gold Standard, 1700-1914 • Peel’s Bank Act, 1844 • Keynesian revolution • “The gold standard is already a barbarous relic.” J.M. Keynes, 1923 • ‘Gold Standard’ ends 1971, currencies no longer redeemable into gold Document slug: date/pp #

  15. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Bank of England established, 1694 • Newton’s Gold Standard, 1700-1914 • Peel’s Bank Act, 1844 • Keynesian revolution • “The gold standard is already a barbarous relic.” J.M. Keynes, 1923 • ‘Gold Standard’ ends 1971, currencies no longer redeemable into gold • gov’ts can create currency without limit Document slug: date/pp #

  16. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Keynesian ‘chalkboard’ theories fail Document slug: date/pp #

  17. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Keynesian ‘chalkboard’ theories fail • when currency can be created without limit, there are consequences Document slug: date/pp #

  18. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Keynesian ‘chalkboard’ theories fail • when currency can be created without limit, there are consequences • these include inflation, global imbalances and sovereign wealth funds Document slug: date/pp #

  19. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Keynesian ‘chalkboard’ theories fail • when currency can be created without limit, there are consequences • these include inflation, global imbalances and sovereign wealth funds • “Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.” Alan Greenspan, 1999 Document slug: date/pp #

  20. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Key events in the history of currency GoldMoney • Keynesian ‘chalkboard’ theories fail • when currency can be created without limit, there are consequences • these include inflation, global imbalances and sovereign wealth funds • “Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.” Alan Greenspan, 1999 • gold remains the standard by which all things are measured – gold is money Document slug: date/pp #

  21. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold is money GoldMoney Crude Oil Prices (Base of 100) January 1950 through December 2010 8000 British pound 6000 4000 2000 0 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10

  22. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold is money GoldMoney Crude Oil Prices (Base of 100) January 1950 through December 2010 8000 British pound 6000 US dollar 4000 2000 0 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10

  23. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold is money GoldMoney Crude Oil Prices (Base of 100) January 1950 through December 2010 8000 British pound 6000 US dollar 4000 euro 2000 0 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10

  24. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold is money GoldMoney Crude Oil Prices (Base of 100) January 1950 through December 2010 8000 British pound 6000 US dollar 4000 euro goldgram 2000 0 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10

  25. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different Document slug: date/pp #

  26. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed Document slug: date/pp #

  27. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed • large aboveground stock is the gold ‘money supply’ Document slug: date/pp #

  28. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed • large aboveground stock is the gold ‘money supply’ • value derives from usefulness Document slug: date/pp #

  29. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed • large aboveground stock is the gold ‘money supply’ • value derives from usefulness • food Document slug: date/pp #

  30. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed • large aboveground stock is the gold ‘money supply’ • value derives from usefulness • food • shelter Document slug: date/pp #

  31. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed • large aboveground stock is the gold ‘money supply’ • value derives from usefulness • food • shelter • communication (interaction in society) Document slug: date/pp #

  32. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold, money & currency GoldMoney • Gold is special because it is different • accumulated (saved); not consumed • large aboveground stock is the gold ‘money supply’ • value derives from usefulness • food • shelter • communication (interaction in society) • Gold is special because it is money Document slug: date/pp #

  33. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Gold is money GoldMoney Crude Oil Prices (Base of 100) January 1950 through December 2010 8000 British pound 6000 US dollar 4000 euro goldgram 2000 0 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 00 05 10

  34. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Portfolio composition GoldMoney 100% • ASSETS • Investments • Other Assets Units of 50% Wealth LIQUIDITY 0

  35. A safe place to put our currency Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Currency for the 21st century GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  36. A safe place to put our currency Not banks because of the boom and bust cycle caused by fractional reserve banking Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Currency for the 21st century GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  37. A safe place to put our currency Not banks because of the boom and bust cycle caused by fractional reserve banking An efficient – low cost – currency for global commerce Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Currency for the 21st century GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  38. A safe place to put our currency Not banks because of the boom and bust cycle caused by fractional reserve banking An efficient – low cost – currency for global commerce No clearing, settlement, payment risk or political risk Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Currency for the 21st century GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  39. A safe place to put our currency Not banks because of the boom and bust cycle caused by fractional reserve banking An efficient – low cost – currency for global commerce No clearing, settlement, payment risk or political risk Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Currency for the 21st century GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  40. “The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.” Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  41. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline Loss of nat’l currency purchasing power GoldMoney

  42. “In a free country the monetary unit rests upon a fixed foundation of gold or gold and silver, independent of the ruling politicians.” Howard Buffett, father of Wall Street legend Warren Buffett Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline An important reason for private currency GoldMoney Document slug: date/pp #

  43. Title Slide Box Title & Headline Title & Headline GoldMoney james.turk@gmyf.org www.goldmoneyfoundation.org Document slug: date/pp #

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