ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS … Alan Greenspan: No Chance of Default, US Can Print Money (CNBC)

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. … This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists’ tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.”
– Alan Greenspan

“When a country embarks on deficit financing (Obamanomics) and inflationism (Quantitative easing = printing money = inflation) you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich.”
– Ron Paul

See also:

– Head Of The World’s Biggest Hedge Fund Sees ‘Economic Collapse’ Due To Money Printing By Early 2013

– Mike Krieger of KAM LP Explains Why QE 3 Will Merely Keep The Lights On – ‘The Stampede Is Yet To Come. But Come It Will.’

– The US Monetary System And Descent Into Fascism An Interview With Dr. Edwin Vieira

– Marc Faber: Mr. Bernanke is a Murderer of the Middle Class – QE Is How The Elites Are Getting Their Revenge On Illiterate Kids Born Out Wedlock

Happy US Weimar Republic!!! (Got gold and silver?)

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– No Chance of Default, US Can Print Money: Greenspan (CNBC, Aug 7, 2011):

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Sunday ruled out the chance of a US default following S&P’s decision to downgrade America’s credit rating.

“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default” said Greenspan on NBC’s Meet the Press

“What I think the S&P thing did was to hit a nerve that there’s something basically bad going on, and it’s hit the self-esteem of the United States, the psyche” said Greenspan

Austan Goolsbee, the chairman of the White House’s council of economic advisors, hit out at S&P on the same show, insisting the credit ratings agency had got its math wrong.

“Well, the basic case is they made a $2 trillion math error and forgot to check their work,” he said. “So rating agencies that didn’t make a $2 trillion math error reaffirmed the AAA status. You saw Warren Buffet say that, if they had a AAAA, he would put U.S. Treasurys in AAAA status.”

Following the decision to downgrade America’s credit rating, the head of sovereign ratings at S&P, David Beers, said the Obama administrations analysis of the move was a complete “misrepresentation.”

Greenspan said the current sense of crisis that has unnerved investors is about the euro zone, not the US.

‘The United States was actually doing relatively well, sluggish but going forward until Italy ran into trouble,” he said. “That destabilized the European system, and the crisis re-emerged. Europe is very critical to the United States in the sense not only do we have a fourth of our experts there, but more importantly, significant proportion of the foreign affiliate profits, in fact half of U.S. corporations, are in Europe.”

“When Italy showed signs of significant weakness in selling its bonds—the yield is now over 6 percent, which is an unsustainable level—it created a massive problem within Europe because Italy is a very large country, cannot be easily bailed out and, indeed, cannot be bailed out,” Greenspan added.