Gold & Silver Coins as Community Dollars

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May 11, 2007

Want to start a community currency by “just doing it?” As more and more of us buy silver and gold coins, there are increasing opportunities to use our coins to transact.

Whenever I travel, I bring back coins from around the world to give to the children and young people in my life. I am hoping to interest them in far away places and the role of currency in networking us together. For Christmas and birthdays, I also give them gold and silver coins. Increasingly, I wanted a tool that would make translating between US dollars and precious metal coins effortless.

One day I was talking with Franklin Sanders about how to make this easy for me. He said that he thought there were many folks who would transact with gold and silver coins if they had a simple calculator.
So we decided to build a web site to provide one — http://www.silverandgoldaremoney.com. We called it that because, in fact, silver and gold are money. If we use our coins to transact in our daily lives, then the value of the currency in our pockets is going up rather than going down like the US dollar.

- Catherine Austin Fitts

http://radio.goldseek.com I will be interviewed with Franklin Sanders http://the-moneychanger.com on Monday, May 14 by Chris G.
Waltzek on the Goldseek Radio Show. The show will be archived here:
http://radio.goldseek.com. Franklin and I will be discussing our new calculator at http://www.silverandgoldaremoney.com and why we believe our calculator could help protect Main Street from Wall Street.

http://www.silverandgoldaremoney.com

Here it is — The Solari-Moneychanger precious metals exchange calculator that can be accessed online.
It features live silver / gold spot prices courtesy of goldmoney.com. The BETA version of this calculator can be viewed at silverandgoldaremoney.com. We’d love to hear your comments and ideas for improvement — just use the link at the top of the calculator.

http://www.solari.com/store/precious_metals_2.php

Haven’t started transacting in silver and gold coins yet? Check out this audio seminar featuring precious metals expert Franklin Sanders at the Solari Store. This seminar covers the political and economic landscape of precious metals as a backdrop for developing your own strategy for using silver and gold coins in transactions and investments. (This is the second audio seminar in the Solari Precious Metals Miniseries.)

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© Solari, Inc. 2007

Disclaimer: Nothing in this Solari Update should be taken as individual investment advice. Anyone seeking investment advice for his or her personal financial situation is advised to seek out a qualified advisor or advisors and provide as much information as possible to the advisor in order that such advisor can take into account all relevant circumstances, objectives, and risks before rendering an opinion as to the appropriate investment strategy.

How do We Measure Growth and its Sustainability?

After having heard Jonathan Porritt at the Anglo-German Foundation, I studied their Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe research programme and applied for a small grant with this proposal:

A recent analysis of on-line statistics of the Bank of England has resulted in a submission to the Treasury Select Committee entitled Green Credit for Green Purposes. It was written in response to an inquiry into the Stern Review. Our key recommendation is the use of the Cash : Credit Ratio in the money supply as a new indicator and economic measure.

The report recommends ‘green credit’ as a mechanism for Government so that it can lead by ‘green governance’ and fuel the economy by funding environmentally beneficial activities.

By commissioning a similar study of data from the European Central Bank and the Bundesbank, new comparative insights would become available that would be applicable to both countries in terms of measuring sustainable growth.

The communication and dissemination of results is aimed at the City and Westminster in London and the German Government in Berlin. However, experience exists only in organising Forum meetings at the Palace of Westminster since 1998. Hence it is hoped that active collaboration with the Anglo German Foundation would contribute to the dissemination.

The proposed ‘matching analysis’ is also based on 10 years of independent research that resulted in an innovative framework for measuring new qualities called ‘3D Metrics’. In its deeply fundamental nature, it cuts across science, finance and economics through new mathematical methods embedded in proprietary software.

Description

As a first step towards further contributions to the Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe programme of the Anglo-German Foundation, the proposer it is suggested to analyse Euro data to compare the financial economics between the two countries.

In addition to her experience as a systems and data analyst, ‘3d metric’ software methods allow for

1. comparing data sets that are hitherto not comparable – by visualizing ‘data layers’
2. forecasting data over short, medium and long time intervals – by using methods that have been tested and found well above average on financial market data.