All of this means that as easy as they are to acquire, Likes are a debased currency.

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However, sometimes other factors come into play that prevent a debased currency from losing value against other currencies.

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Bond prices would fall (and thus yields rise) as investors worried that they would be paid back in a debased currency.

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They cannot suffer when paid in the best money known to man, but are the peculiar and most defenseless victims of a debased and fluctuating currency, which offers continual profits to the money changer at their cost.

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You can see Americans get richer as the currency gets debased.

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Since the dollar is the benchmark currency, when it is debased, other currencies must follow suit.

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But they are not doing this at a rate that puts the dollar under serious threat of being debased as the global reserve and trade currency of choice.

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Of course if his advice is followed, a dollar that rests near all-time lows versus every major foreign currency along with gold needs to be debased even more.

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