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The self-hatred pathology of secular (children of) Jews. (Judaism being a religion, and today's Jews being about one-tenth Semitic racial stock, it's silly to pretend it's some sort of race.)New Yawk is about to elect an Intifada. Figures. New Yorkers need a Hamas backer as Mayor.
MONEY must have legitimacy.CJ, money does have legitimacy. Gold is money and to a lesser extent, so is silver.
I understand what you were trying to say though and if you replace the word money with currency you are correct.
At the end of the day the currency value doesn't really matter as long as real money maintains it's purchasing power. It's done its job very well. Melt value of a silver dime is around 2.60 today. Price of gas is around 2.90-3.20.
1964 gas prices were around 25 cents a gallon. Less than 3 silver dimes. 3 silver dimes today is around 7.80 so an argument could be made that silver is very far ahead of itself and needs to pull back by at least 50%.
Of course there is also the argument that it needs to go up by at least 100% to keep up with the price of housing. In 1900 a house cost 5000 dollars or ounces of silver. Today that same 5000 ounces of silver would only be worth about 180,000. So either silver is underpriced or housing is in a huge bubble. I would argue the latter is true and housing needs a huge haircut.