Jim Rogers on competing currencies

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Competing currencies...

That’s the only solution that has ever worked long term. Nothing has worked a long time – including gold, silver, seashells, cattle. Nothing has worked long term except that you choose your money.

It’s the only solution that has worked throughout history. Every government imposed, every dictated from of money has always failed. Including the gold standard.

http://www.goldmoney.com/gold-research/newsdesk/jim-rogers-interview.html

[CurbsideProphet]

Nice article.

FM: What would you tell American leaders and politicians?

JR: Resign.

FM: The same thing to Ben Bernanke?

JR: No, Bernanke I would tell him to close the Federal Reserve and then resign.

 

[Meatpile]

Some illiterate  contextless quotes from an interview with a guy who says he barely knows of bitcoins existance?

[Elwar]

Jim Rogers has had some great quotes.

 "A fool and his money are soon elected."
 "Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them."
 "Our foreign policy is an open book—a checkbook."
 "I belong to no organized party, I'm a Democrat."
 "Lettin' the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than puttin' it back in."
 "When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states."
 "People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing."
 "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
 "The income tax has made more liars out of Americans than golf.