Special Guest: James Turk has specialized in international banking,
finance and investments since graduating in 1969 from George Washington
University with a B.A. degree in International Economics. His business career
began at The Chase Manhattan Bank, which included assignments in Thailand,
the Philippines and Hong Kong. He subsequently joined the investment and
trading company of a prominent precious metals trader based in Greenwich,
Connecticut. He moved to the United Arab Emirates in December 1983 to be
appointed Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987. Since 1987 James Turk
has written The Freemarket Gold & Money Report, an investment newsletter
that publishes twenty issues annually. He is the author of The Illusions of
Prosperity (1985), SOCIAL SECURITY Lies, Myths and Reality (1992) and several
monographs and articles on money and banking. He founded GoldMoney.com based
on two US patents awarded to him for digital gold currency, which enables
gold to circulate efficiently as currency.
24 Minute VIDEO
With a career in International Banking, including managing the Abe Dubai
Investment Authority's Commodities Portfolio, James Turk is an experienced
professional whose insights should be thoughtfully considered. He feels
strongly that the US needs to return to the sound money principles the
framers of the US Constitution outlined and which the US has unfortunately
and perilously veered away from.
Financial Repression
"Financial Repression is government intervention in the market
system which distorts the market's signals. .... Government intervention not
only distorts the markets but in fact is counter-productive because many
times it is government policies which the market are reacting to!"
Instead of changing the policies, governments try and convince the markets
(through intervention) that the policies they are following are the
correct ones, when in fact they are not.
James feels strongly that governments need to be outside the markets and
be primarily focused on maintaining the 'rule of law' and ensuring there is a
level playing field for competitive capitalism to operate on. Government
intervention results in distorting that playing field to the advantage of
themselves and their special interests.
"(Governments & Central Banks) are following policies that
basically are not sustainable!"
"The government's 'make believe' is that they are creating wealth
through creating currency and distributing it through their various programs.
That is not creating wealth, but rather debasing the currency. When you
debase the currency this is the worst type of financial repression because
you are essentially destroying people's ability to interact entirely
voluntarily within the market place, as we fulfill our needs and wants."
Understanding Wealth
There is only so much wealth in world. It needs to come from somewhere if
it is to be distributed in a meaningful way. James Turk believes wealth
fundamentally comes in two forms: Tangible Wealth and Financial Wealth.
Financial Wealth comes with counter-party risk and the exposure to
insufficient cash-flows required to support the leverage that inevitably
comes with pyramiding and the interconnection of financial wealth.
James Turk believes we are presently destroying wealth. Financial Wealth
gets destroyed because of the eventuality of insufficient cash-flows (Free
DCF) to support the over financialization of the economy.
.... there is much, much more in this fact filled 24 minute Video.
War on Cash & Bail-ins
- The Holy Alliance
- Perpetuating the Welfare State
- Why we can't trust the banking sytem anymore.
- How banks have become Hedge Funds versus lending
institutions,
- Why we need to separate the banks function of being a
payments system versus being investment fund managers.
Crypto Currencies
- What is the real purpose is of money,
- How the current environment is a historical aberration.
We have moved away from a sound money system as the constitution framed.
- Why we need to return to the wisdom of the framers of
the US constitution,
- Why Gold and Silver's proven historical track record is
important.
GoldMoney & BitGold Merger
- Why GoldMoney and BitGold Merged,
- What James sees the future to be for the merger.
