Fair enough..  but some people would refer to this as advertisement.  These aren't police or politicians.   If you paid google they would put an ad for cosbycoin.   

Anyway, I'm waiting for the Dmitri video to come out.      

Somebody offers you a transparent service to trade something with others.. this is a scam how?  

When BTC-e devs worked for MMMCoin I didn't see all this fuss here.  

Really, if you don't want any don't buy them.  

Keep up the good work BTC-e support - -

How could we be surprised? 

Almost 20 years now since they burned alive 21 kids under 16 years old in Waco.

They received promotions for it.   

'The State Of The Union Is Strong,' Says Man Responsible For Shielding Nation From Truth

http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-state-of-the-union-is-strong-says-man-responsi,31275/

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So August 2011 is month which is a good indicator of performance 1970-2010?  How did Nestle do during the period I mentioned, in which the Franc had some 400% gain against the dollar?

Anyway lets talk about your WSJ quote, because I disagree with it anyway and it is a bit deceptive, seeing as in Aug. 2011 there was a small correction in price but the stock was still up ~50% YTD, and it implies companies would prefer their assets to depreciate in value.     

How about we rephrase it a bit:

The strong bitcoin, which has gained 1000% against the dollar, has been an enormous drag on Silk Road merchants and Alpaca Sock exporters.

Do you still buy it? 

Well I do admit there is a grain of truth in what you say, in that relatively wealthy nations have to pay higher labor costs and so find it difficult to compete in certain foreign markets with cheap labor.  Perhaps you will also admit that the motivation of individuals when robbing the wealth of a nation is not only to increase the competitive edge of the export sector in cheap manufacturing?   

You provided me with quotes from people who are printing money for themselves, providing not believable excuses on unscientific grounds why its ok for them to confiscate wealth of others.  Philipp Hildebrand said so. 

I can prove pirate will give the money back: "I will repay soon" he said.  Want a chart with that? 

I brought to the table counterexamples of your theory, which as I understand it was: an appreciating currency means difficulties for your production economic interests.  My counterexample was Switzerland, 1970-2010.  I specifically mentioned Nestle, watch industry, and biotech.

Granted, it's hard to impossible to make a controlled experiment in economics.  In this case, your hypothesis predicts great growth in industrial sector in Zimbabwe, Argentina, and Venezuela about now.  Also USA in the last 15 years should have shown great growth in export sector according to your theory.  Forgive me for not being strongly compelled.   
 

 

No, I don't see.  I'm not sure who the SNB players are, how they are connected with the big 7, what kind of relationships they have with the ECB or other banks, and what Swiss industries they work with.  Sorry, I'm just not connected enough to know more and heck if we did we wouldn't be posting here  

Yes, it sucks to lose your customers.  Yes there are difficulties in the Euro block economy of which Switzerland is a part.
No, I don't see any evidence to believe that having a strong currency is the reason for these problems. 
If you want to pay employees less, why not just lower their salary? 

 

Perfect example!  Thanks, I have been thinking about this one too.  

First, imagine yourself in the shoes of a SNB representative / employee.  You don't need to follow the news of the names and dates of the moves (yes there have been scandals in the news there) involved to realize, yes, of course you could have made a bundle on this deal and probably still can as the "infinite wall"  at 1.2 Euro is still there.  What are they going to do with all the euros they have bought?  They will still buy as many as you want to see at 1.2, by creating francs.  You asked why they are printing all these new Francs.  In my opinion free money is the real incentive there.      

Seems to me quite a sad day (ok, ~1.5 years already) for the strong history of the franc.  

To sell globally, yes you need to price your product competitively at its quality level.  If you are selling the product for bitcoins, gold, francs, euros, whatever, you will need to find a price range to deal with your customer.  As a company, if your assets become very valuable, how is this a bad thing?  Yes there are details, minimum wage laws, taxes, imports, etc..  but this quote:


is a total joke imho.  "Massive overevaluation of the franc"  (sic) has been an incredible boon to the Swiss economy over the last century, while other central banks were busy looting the citizens with savings there seems to have been some measure of anti-corruption or something in place which has saved Switzerland.  CHF was worth about 0.25 USD 40 years ago.  You might notice that Nestle, Basel's bio-industry, watches, etc. have done just fine during this period of "massive overevaluation".  Sadly it appears that is over now, if the national bank is issuing such deceptive statements and following or making deals with other monetary bandits.  

The real losers here are the holders of CHF, and unfortunately the reputation of the banking sector there is losing as well.  On the plus side, the infrastructure is still some of the best in the world, there is a great educational system, a skilled and organized work force, and I expect the large fund of euros purchased with newly created francs will not be as easily looted as it would be in NY or DC.  



  

 

 

A totally undefined term which apparently you are using as a scapegoat for some kind of your own personal difficulties.

The problem with your logic here is that there is no person called "Germany".  Rather, persons with acting on their own interests represent the nation of Germany.   There are German citizens who can take advantage of Euro printing for their own interests.  There may be others who would benefit from a return the Mark.  There are probably others who are paid well for claiming that strong currency would hurt the economy, as you have claimed here..  generally those economists are paid by those who can benefit from monetary inflation.  From the point of view of a citizen or private business owner, its hard to see how being robbed (having your currency devalued) is a good thing.  Your claim that a heavy exporter would be hurt by having their assets go up in value is difficult for me to follow and has been beaten down several times in this forum. 


 

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Thanks! 

I'll guess Ur.  Or perhaps Lemuria.   

Well I'm not sure I agree.  If these organizations encouraged their members to preserve values of their currencies, why have they instead steadily debased them over the last century? 

A2: Anybody who was in Iran and needed the Dinars to spend on goods and services there. 

I agree but if you are talking about price inflation that takes many years to trickle down.

Those three letter acronyms do not refer to individuals, so it is incorrect grammar to assign such a "want" or behavioral tendency to them.  Rather they are made of individuals which have their own incentives and behavioral tendencies like the rest of us. 

As much as I like the sentiment, we should also point out here that there are 195 other countries on this planet all of which offer you a lower chance that you will be a political prisoner. 

Those guys around the table are clearly European. 
Also the guys under the table look like they could be central african. 
Also Milton Bradley is implied. 

So what?   Nice mural, thanks for sharing.