They are: keeping the dollar as good as gold and dealing with financial panics.
But when Onyok got home, he found that his silver was almost as good as gold.
Bill Clinton was a strong-dollar President, and John Kennedy proclaimed that the dollar should be as good as gold.
John Kennedy was no economist either, yet he didn't hesitate to declare that the dollar should be as good as gold.
No Republican, other than Ron Paul, is demanding that we rein in the Fed and make the dollar as good as gold once again.
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The true arrogance of the Obama Administration is that it believes that the world will always treat the dollar as being as good as gold.
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In the developed world, debt is viewed as good as gold.
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Reduce other federal spending, repeal ObamaCare before it metastasizes, cut tax rates, make the dollar as good as gold again and dismantle the oppressive regulatory state.
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Straighten up and fly right: Overhaul that tax system, make the currency as good as gold once again, eliminate those growth-retarding regulations, and all will be well.
And finally, emphasizing growth means the Republican Party must engage in the great task of replacing the current paper dollar with a dollar as good as gold.
In the rare event a borrower went under, his land collateral was as good as gold anyway since legions of land-use restrictions acted as virtual government price supports.
Merton Miller and his colleague Franco Modigliani posited their capital structure irrelevance theorem in the late 1950s, when the dollar was as good as gold at least for foreign creditors.
Finally, making the dollar as good as gold, and restoring gold to the center of the international monetary system, will give the Unites States an enormous boost in soft power.
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There was no debt ceiling because for the most part American government was limited in size, and thus taxes were light, budgets balanced (or in surplus), and money as good as gold.
When the Feds caught him on camera in a Los Angeles Sheraton transferring a suitcase filled with 220 pounds of cocaine and famously saying, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time, " their case seemed made.
But, as trust in the paper dollar continues to erode, and the incompetence of the governing class to manage the economy becomes more evident by the day, there is growing interest in and support of making the dollar as good as gold.
The bulls are having a very good week as gold is poised to close at a technically bullish weekly high close on Friday.
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Some will argue that gold is just as good at outpacing inflation, but the record on gold is dicey.
Gold mines appear to be a good way to own gold but as anyone who follows the goings-on in the mining sector will know, nothing ever seems to run smoothly.
Many see gold as a good place to stash cash because it will benefit from further global weakness as a flight to safety, but also stands to benefit from inflationary pressure should markets regain their footing.
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Here again in 2011-2012, the crisis proved good for gold at first, but the whole move has been unwound as global credit deflation sucked the air out of gold futures and options, and wipe-out losses in other assets forced even true believers to quit their positions.
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Still, foreign money has flooded into Indian stocks, particularly since early April, when oil and gold prices began to fall seen as good for India's financial health and the Bank of Japan announced its drastic monetary-stimulus program.
It distorts economic decision making: Hard assets, such as oil, gold and land, may look awfully good when the cost of living is rising more than 10% a year--which is what happened in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Investors feel good and start pulling their money out of nonproductive assets such as gold.
We believe a good consultant is worth his weight in gold and is probably as difficult to find as gold.
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The gold and silver bulls have had a good week as prices late this week have hit four-week highs and both markets have gained near-term technical strength.
But the Russians are scary good at wrestling, where they may get as many as a half-dozen gold medals.
Technically, December gold futures bulls have good upside near-term technical momentum as prices overnight did touch a fresh four-month high.
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