Obvious then, but these things are easier to see in retrospect. There is speculation in silicone valley but not like we had in 1999. So there are probably some inflation. Anyone else who hasnt asked a question . I will take one more from this gentlemen and then happy to sign books i want to follow up on something i heard you say. I thought you said since the abolition of the Gold Standard the dollar hasnt lost any of its buying power. No, i said it hasnt lost its power overseas in the world market. There was a terrible inflation in the 1970s. The rate of inflation generally has not been severe. It has lost about 2 a year except for that period. You can look at the figures like a dollar in 1920 is only worth 14 cents today. You know, that is really significant if you are around in 1920 and still around today. But life doesnt work that way. What happens is at a 2 rate it is barely noticeable and in some ways it is helpful. The one reason we have unemployment is for cultural reasons it is
Ii business documents are about the vatican bank and the bishop of miami lobby on my behalf for access and a bishop in washington, lobbied on my behalf but the bishop who runs the vatican archive said no. That forced me to do with the oldfashioned way. And did business with the vatican bank. And alliance, go into their files and private archives, pull of the transactions that have been done with rome 50 or 60 or 70, and called on the pope since publication of this book in Los Angeles Times out that in march, ask for the pope to release banks world war ii files and what files of the wartime pope, there was no response. When he came to america the Washington Post editorial said the same thing and there was no response which i am hopeful francis will not just be a reformer going back in the vatican bank history but also going forward. He can do that by releasing the banks world war ii files. Host one of your former books, secret of the kingdom, the inside story of the saudi u. S. Connecti
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