[e-gold-list] Australian Banks

2001-04-15 Thread Ben Legume
If bank fees are high, as you seem to be saying, bank branches should be profitable if they have custom. Bank branches have been closed down, are being closed down and will continue to be closed down because the fees from branch use is less than the costs of providing the branch services. If

[e-gold-list] Re: long article

2001-04-15 Thread Bob
Vincent Youngs wrote: Here is a long article about the price of gold, explaining how the speculative inflow of foreign capital into U.S. dollars is what has driven the price of gold down. http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/vanEedenGold.html Excellent. It's where it's at. The only

[e-gold-list] Re: Australian real estate agents and Australian Banks

2001-04-15 Thread Ian Green
With 19 million people inhabiting a continent nearly the size of the lower 48 states, we must have at least 5 times more real estate (by area, not value) than any other first world country. :) As for the banks though, I have several accounts with various institutions, but only one of them has a

[e-gold-list] Re: Australian Banks

2001-04-15 Thread Ben Legume
I had a little trouble finding the legal tender laws when I wrote the last email on this topic (I was sure I had seen them in the Reserve Bank of Australia Act but could not find them there, i found some in another statute). I should do some research on this topic. The relevant act is I think

[e-gold-list] (Fwd) URGENT! Tax Day Deadline!

2001-04-15 Thread Destiny Worldwide Net
If the LP took egold for ther donations, I think they would get money faster. To everyon on the egold list: email the LP and ask them why they don't take the Libertarian egold currencies. John --- Forwarded Message Follows --- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:42:50 -0400 (EDT)

[e-gold-list] Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

2001-04-15 Thread Viking Coder
HK Kid wrote "What you say is true (altho it would violate the terms of governance of the e-gold system) but it is beside the point of what I understood to be the original topic. Namely, the assertion that the use by a 3rd party, such as SR, of e-gold to back another currency, such as AUG,

[e-gold-list] Themestream drops dead.

2001-04-15 Thread James M. Ray
Ordinarily, this would be ho-hum stuff. Another dot.com that lacked a revenue model (and, as far as I know, never even *looked* at e-gold) croaks keels-over. "Big deal," I'd ordinarily say, but unfortunately it means that a certain interesting article, which *WAS* at:

[e-gold-list] Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

2001-04-15 Thread SnowDog
Capitalism succeeds because it is based upon one of humanity's greatest failings... Greed. Greed - the desire to improve one's situation - is not a failing; it is a virtue. Wow, I agree! There are those who set their image of man to be somewhat different than man is. Then when man

[e-gold-list] Suggested changes to SCI

2001-04-15 Thread Tristan Petersen
Hi, I think the SCI should report to the merchant everything in the unit the merchant chose (or the customer). For example, if the merchant sets the only accepted unit as the gram, the SCI should report the USD/g, NOT the USD/oz!! Same thing with the payment receive fee and all the other info on

[e-gold-list] Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

2001-04-15 Thread Tristan Petersen
Capitalism succeeds because it is based upon one of humanity's greatest failings... Greed. Greed - the desire to improve one's situation - is not a failing; it is a virtue. Wow, I agree! .. "The Utopia of Greed" in Atlas Shrugged comes to mind :) Tristan --- You are currently

[e-gold-list] Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Morrison
Tristan Petersen wrote: Capitalism succeeds because it is based upon one of humanity's greatest failings... Greed. Greed - the desire to improve one's situation - is not a failing; it is a virtue. Wow, I agree! .. "The Utopia of Greed" in Atlas Shrugged comes to mind :)

[e-gold-list] great article

2001-04-15 Thread jpm
http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/vanEedenGold.html thanks to whoever posted that! fascinating long article! If you ever want to find it, I linked to it on http://bananagold.com , right by Bob's Bananagold Gold Column. JP! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as:

[e-gold-list] Re: Australian real estate agents and Australian Banks

2001-04-15 Thread Michael Moore
The US, I believe, Has over 200 Million people. Is the turn over of property in Aussie that much? I would doubt it given the small population MM - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "e-gold Discussion" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 10:03 AM Subject:

[e-gold-list] Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

2001-04-15 Thread David Hillary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "What you say is true (altho it would violate the terms of governance of the e-gold system) but it is beside the point of what I understood to be the original topic. Namely, the assertion that the use by a 3rd party, such as SR, of e-gold to back another currency,

[e-gold-list] Re: Fractional Reserve Banking

2001-04-15 Thread CCS
Greed - the desire to improve one's situation - is not a failing; it is a virtue. True. As craig said, we don't have the proper words to describe the good form of greed vs. the common connotation of greed. Well, we do have the word 'avarice'. There are plenty of proper words in the