Burn Your Liberty Dollars (freedom lovers only itt)

Originally Posted by Hachifusa

What is it about gold that's so special?

It's an excellent conductor, incredibly malleable, doesn't react with pretty much anything, and has the advantage of being genuinely rare rather than artificially.

EDIT: Well, somehow I missed Styphon's post which said everything I did. Doh.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So here's something that's been bugging me for a few days now that I completely cannot understand. Only slightly related to this thread.

Why are libertarians, who seem to be interested in privatizing everything, even things like Homeland Security, so opposed to the Federal Reserve? The biggest complaint I hear from them is that it's private and not part of the government. I don't get it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Bradylama

Well, not all libertarians are ancaps, and not all gold bugs are libertarians. Basically the usual anti-feddite thinks that the Federal Reserve contradicts the constitution and control over currency should be the responsibility of Congress, which is a bad idea in innumerable ways.

Fair enough. In general, the few encounters I've had with the groups have mostly overlapped, so I was under the assumption it was a common belief.

That and the pile of Anti-fed articles that somehow seem to get continuously voted up at Digg and Reddit. Either way, that makes more sense.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.