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Dollars are no different.
the Fed is similar.
econ 101

The market assigns the value.

No, the fed prints money and decides the values through interest rates. - zero to do with value. For value to be found, you cannot have fiat money controlled by a central bank, who prints the money, and also deciding interest rates.

econ 101

Isn't the USD traded on the international financial markets?
(real life)

....is this a serious conversation?

definition of money - means of exchange paymenyt and store of value - currency and money are not the same.

if someone decides interest rates and prints money- they alter the valaue of the unit - therefor by definition,not making it money- just currency.

the value of the dollar since 1913 has dropped 98% ish - making it not money ( still legal tender) but manipulated currency...

you can trade your dreams with my unicorns if you like - it doesn't make it real.

There has been no reality in US markets since Jekyll island ( and before).

Debt based monetary systems have to implode. It math.
... they last 40-70 year cycles - this one has lasted longer than normal..(due to changing the petro dollar as backing the US dollar, and leaving the gold standard in early seventies)

....is this a serious conversation?

I wasn't being condescending, btw - I can give you pointers if you don't know - lots of stuff on you tube to explain it.
I was assuming you knew about this stuff - soz.

Happy to go through it all..in 10 hours or so...

not to be condescending.
but I have two business degrees.
YouTube does not impress me.

Okay, cool. I have got zero degree's....
(... but a masters from the school of hard knocks... boom! boom!)

...so, if by market - you mean free market- (there really isn't any other type - or it's not a true market).
then value of anything (true price mechanism), can never be employed.

Not If there is a centrally controlled authority issuing the money and that authority is deciding the value of it. (interest rates).
...And that's before we get into fractional reserve banking with interest! lol

I know of 2 bankers who I had to explain what money was - and wasn't.
One of them had a degree in economics! Once you got past Keynesian economic theory, he was lost.
Seriously.

I went to the hard university of hard knocks too.
graduated sigma come loudly.

Steemit seems to be acting up.
Half my replies won't fly.
I'm gonna go take a nap.
talk to you later.

if you differentiate between money and currency (most people don't) then I concede your point.

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