Quote:Gold is a big part of that GDP

Yeah, not so much.  GDP is a somewhat variable evaluation of all goods and services produced (that's where the 'P' comes from) by a national economy over a specific period.  The only way gold would affect GDP would be gold that is mined and processed in a particular period (the same period in which GDP is measured).  Gold stored in a reserve has no impact on GDP, any more than an automobile built and sold in 1985 affects the GDP for 2014.

Boru

Addendum: I just looked this up: The US gold reserve has a monetary value of around $330 billion. US GDP is about $17 trillion. So, even is the gold reserve did affect the US GDP, it accounts for a little less than two percent. Hardly a 'big part'.

You know that prince Al-Waleed bin Talal is the second biggest share holder in Fox News, after Rupert Murdoch right? You wouldn't, surely, want to ban one of the biggest financiers of Fascism from the United States, right? This is why Fox News hesitates to condemn Saudi. Not to mention, Fox News would also love Theocracy like they have in Saudi.

Like Rupert Murdoch, Al-Waleed bin Talal is a Fascist who wants to spread his religious agenda. Fox News and the al-Saud family want to drive a wedge between people, thus strengthening al-Saud's henchmen in Syria, and in other places, and creating perpetual war so that they can fulfill their silly little end times prophecies. They want everyone to be fearful, and you, mralstoner, have become a victim of that narrative.

(December 8, 2015 at 3:25 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You must be blind. An organized military is forcibly gaining territory and sujectong those within its borders to its will while controlling the resources within that geographic area. That's what war looks like.

So tell me then, why did the US arm them, through their Saudi and Emirati proxies? The main reason we have ISIS as a factor is that the US wanted to arm a non-violent movement and decided to give the guns to the wild eyed lunatics.

(December 28, 2015 at 1:50 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: You know that prince Al-Waleed bin Talal is the second biggest share holder in Fox News, after Rupert Murdoch right? You wouldn't, surely, want to ban one of the biggest financiers of Fascism from the United States, right? This is why Fox News hesitates to condemn Saudi. Not to mention, Fox News would also love Theocracy like they have in Saudi.

Stoner doesn't know anything his rightwing pundits don't tell him. And no, Fox News wouldn't promote Saudi like theocracy, unless it's christian. But I'm sure that's what you meant anyway.

(December 9, 2015 at 1:28 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:

(December 8, 2015 at 5:48 pm)abaris Wrote: And your point is, if there is one?

I see only rambling and the desperate try to find some meaning between this diarhea of words. Oh, and I see you not answering where the comparison between Japan and Germany comes in, since, last time I checked, these are nations - as opposed to what ...?

Three guesses, if you please.

Ferdinand & Isabella kicked the muslims and Jews out of Spain without too much trouble and that was in 1492.  Maybe someone should resurrect them?

It was Philip II who kicked out the Muslims and Jews, Ferdinand & Isabella conquered Granada.

And in fact the forced expulsion was a major factor in the economic decline of Spain, probably the most significant, which was the cause of its collapse as a power internationally.

Oh, and I'm not replying to you to get into an argumwnt with a neo-nazi, but to put the record straight just in case somebody comes alon who is stupid enough to listen to your racist bile.

(January 5, 2016 at 3:39 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote: Oh, and I'm not replying to you to get into an argumwnt with a neo-nazi, but to put the record straight just in case somebody comes alon who is stupid enough to listen to your racist bile.

Sadly, there are some. Not many, but some.