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April 22, 2013, 10:07:16 PM
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Kunming mother sues US central bank over shrinking cash

She claims Federal Reserve has allowed her deposit of US$250 to lose a third of its value

A woman in Kunming, Yunnan province, is trying to sue the United States central bank after discovering that the real value of the US$250 she put in an account in 2006 had shrunk by 30 per cent.

She claims it was a result of the Federal Reserve issuing too much money.

Her attorney, her son Li Zhen , called the lawsuit "litigation for the public good" which aimed to stop the Fed from continuing its quantitive easing policy and promote people's awareness of their rights.

He filed the lawsuit alleging "the abuse of monopoly in issuing currency" last month at the Kunming Intermediate People's Court on behalf of his mother, Liu Hua , but the court has yet to decide whether to officially place the case on file.

Since the global financial crisis, the Fed has been pumping more money into the economy via several rounds of so-called quantitative easing to try to boost consumer spending and revive economic growth.

The judges were "greatly surprised" to see the indictment, said the 36-year-old lawyer, adding he was the first mainlander to have filed a lawsuit against a foreign country's central bank.

Li, who works at the Yunnan Tongbang Law Firm, said he referred to Black's Law Dictionary, the most cited legal dictionary in the US, and concluded that the Fed is a private institution instead of a government department.

According to the dictionary, US financial institutions are required to invest in the Federal Reserve System if they want to join it, which he construed as meaning the Fed is privately owned.

"Since the Fed is a private institution which enjoys a monopoly over the issuing of currency, US dollar holders can sue it for printing too much money," he said.

Li said he requested two things from the court - that the Fed halts the abuse of its monopoly over the issuing of dollars and that it makes a "symbolic compensation" of US$1. Asked about the possibility of whether the court will accept the case, Li said it was "difficult to say".

He added: "Since the Anti-Monopoly Law was enforced in 2008, there have been not many serious lawsuits in this regard.

"It was not until early last year that a judicial interpretation for civil anti-monopoly cases was issued … besides, this case involves very professional issues and is very complex."

He said he was looking for more "victims" like his mother and expected to bring a class action in a US court.

Professor Wang Xiaoye , an expert on anti-monopoly law, said the depreciation of a currency was a business risk that holders had to bear.
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April 22, 2013, 10:11:44 PM
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He said he was looking for more "victims" like his mother and expected to bring a class action in a US court.

That's gonna be a biiiiig case....

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April 22, 2013, 10:12:22 PM
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Ahhhh, nice one! Smiley

Spam it on facebook "READ AND SHARE" lets get some people power and newspapers behind this!
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April 22, 2013, 10:14:03 PM
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That's gonna be a biiiiig case....

A class action suit of US dollar users based in the US would be an awesome thing to see. It's too bad the lawyers would die in a car wreck, plane wreck, OD, etc.
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April 22, 2013, 10:16:28 PM
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After world-wide adoption of Bitcoin the dollar will lose 99.999% of its value. Now I got WHY Satoshi stays in the shadows!  Grin
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April 23, 2013, 01:43:41 AM
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Professor Wang
Hehehehe....

In all seriousness though, I found this when trying to determine the relative price of something earlier. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=1963&year2=2013
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April 23, 2013, 07:20:00 AM
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As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners filed against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co.

The suit, filed as a potential class action in U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto had artificially inflated prices for its herbicide Roundup through anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer, believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast.

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April 23, 2013, 09:07:21 AM
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As details emerge about the Texas fertilizer plant that was the site of Wednesday’s fatal explosion and fire, a few tidbits can be gleaned from a 2007 lawsuit that the plant’s owners filed against agribusiness giant Monsanto Co.

The suit, filed as a potential class action in U.S. District Court for the western district of Texas, claimed that Monsanto had artificially inflated prices for its herbicide Roundup through anti-competitive actions. The suit did not relate to storing fertilizer, believed to be at the root of Wednesday’s blast.

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Um, she lives in Kumming province, China.  Do read the OP before replying.
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April 23, 2013, 09:20:01 AM
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Sueing a monopolist for making something cheap  Roll Eyes
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April 23, 2013, 02:40:16 PM
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Sueing a monopolist for making something cheap  Roll Eyes
Price inflation is when things get more expensive, not less expensive. Unnatural monopolies (which arise as a result of government, in contrast to natural monopolies) result in higher prices and poor service, never lower prices.
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April 23, 2013, 02:42:36 PM
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Sueing a monopolist for making something cheap  Roll Eyes
Price inflation is when things get more expensive, not less expensive. Unnatural monopolies (which arise as a result of government, in contrast to natural monopolies) result in higher prices and poor service, never lower prices.

wolongong says the lawsuit is complaining a monopolist, the US, made its product, the dollar cheaper. wolongong is correct and it's a funny reason to sue a monopolist.

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April 23, 2013, 07:39:43 PM
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Sueing a monopolist for making something cheap  Roll Eyes
Price inflation is when things get more expensive, not less expensive. Unnatural monopolies (which arise as a result of government, in contrast to natural monopolies) result in higher prices and poor service, never lower prices.

wolongong says the lawsuit is complaining a monopolist, the US, made its product, the dollar cheaper. wolongong is correct and it's a funny reason to sue a monopolist.
Ah, they're thinking about it the other way. I'm not used to thinking of the dollar in that way. The dollar getting cheaper to me means the quality of the dollar's maintenance is suffering, though I know that's not technically the case. I view it as poor service, rather than cheaper product. I'll admit that I skimmed the OP though.

Point taken.
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April 23, 2013, 07:49:54 PM
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Sueing a monopolist for making something cheap  Roll Eyes
Price inflation is when things get more expensive, not less expensive. Unnatural monopolies (which arise as a result of government, in contrast to natural monopolies) result in higher prices and poor service, never lower prices.

wolongong says the lawsuit is complaining a monopolist, the US, made its product, the dollar cheaper. wolongong is correct and it's a funny reason to sue a monopolist.
For producing a shoddy product?

Remember "cheap" can mean either "inexpensive" or "poor quality." Although making a dollar inexpensive in the local scrip would also damage any investments held in it. But if you're going to do that, you might as well sue the Chinese government for having a currency that doesn't lose value as fast as the dollar.

So the only sense in which it actually makes sense to sue is for a poor quality product.

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April 26, 2013, 02:41:29 AM
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Clearly they are soon to become terrrrists, and get a beatdown ... 
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April 26, 2013, 07:07:41 PM
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So the only sense in which it actually makes sense to sue is for a poor quality product.

What about anti-trust?  Don't they have anti-monopoly laws or something in the US?
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April 26, 2013, 07:17:08 PM
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So the only sense in which it actually makes sense to sue is for a poor quality product.
What about anti-trust?  Don't they have anti-monopoly laws or something in the US?
We do indeed.... but we also have this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity_in_the_United_States
Of course, the Fed is not officially part of the government, so it may not be shielded by that.

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