| Soros Calls for More Global Regulation of Currency | | Print | |
| Written by Mike Telzrow |
| Monday, 09 November 2009 11:00 |
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As Charles Scaliger noted in his article "The Diminishing Dollar" in The New American magazine for November 9: "The creation of a true global central bank is perhaps the gravest threat now under serious consideration to America’s financial sovereignty, but it is by no means the only one. A myriad of new proposals for international regulation of financial institutions and transactions is little less troubling." Among the international financial regulatory bodies cited by Scaliger are The Financial Stability Board (FSB), created last April by the G-20 and based at the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, which is working “to develop and implement strong regulatory, supervi-sory and other policies in the interest of financial stability." The article notes that "the FSB 'comprises senior representatives of national financial authorities (central banks, regulatory and supervisory authorities and ministries of finance), international financial institutions, standard setting bodies, and committees of central bank experts.' Among these 'standard setting bodies' are the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS), the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS), and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). All of these bodies, as their names imply, are embryonic global financial regulatory bodies, and all of them would be completely unnecessary in the absence of modern central banks and fiat currencies." As for a solution to block the creation of a New World Financial Order, Scaliger repeats the admonition long advocated by free-market economists: "Simply enough, the United States can unilaterally return to a gold standard and abolish the Federal Reserve System." Both of these solutions have already been embodied in bills introduced in Congress by free-market legislators like Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) incuding H.R. 833, the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act, and legislation introduced in the last Congress to repeal our nation’s legal tender laws and to help restore gold and silver money. Michael E. Telzrow is Executive Director of the National Railroad Museum and a Contributor to The New American magazine.
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Leave U.S. out of it!
Abolish the Fed and re-establish a constitutionally mandated system of sound money. Get the U.S. out of the IMF and the World Bank. Eliminate the "most favored trade" insanity, and institute a flat, revenue producing tariff that applies to ALL imports from ALL nations.
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George Soros is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the "Government" behind the Government of the United States. |
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