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GOLD REBELLION: South Carolina Congressman Moves to Ban Federal Currency
Something that would’ve been laughed off as absolutely crazy just a few years ago has now moved to just this side of outrageous and landed somewhere in the area of doubtful consideration.
We’re talking about a motion within the South Carolina State House of Representatives where Congressman Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate the replacement of federal currency with tangible gold and silver coins as the only legal tender.
It’s on the table, but indeed doubtful for passage according to many legal and economic experts for several reasons. It’s legally suspect from a Constitutional standpoint and economically from the standpoint of using actual precious metals as currency.
But, then again, Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate race victory in Massachusetts—likewise the product of public disenchantment with big-government spending—was seen as doubtful too.
Available for interviews to offer a realistic assessment of the viability of this proposal is Bob Chapman, a seasoned economist and publisher of The International Forecaster, who has been extremely critical of the U.S. government’s fiscal irresponsibility and, in particular, the Federal Reserve’s power to control monetary policy.
As a guest on your show, he can explore the reality of Mr. Pitts’ gold-based world, and project on the likelihood that other states might try to follow suit—much the same way they’ve done in passing backlash-type states-rights legislation on gun rights and healthcare reform as well.
Plus, Chapman can get into the nuts and bolts of our economy, and the high-risk trend line we’re on if we don’t come up with new, perhaps even if laughable, solutions to our bad spending and money-printing habits.
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THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE MAY BE USEFUL FOR SHOW PREP:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/17/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6217403.shtml
ROBERT J. CHAPMAN BIOGRAPHY:
Mr. Chapman is 73 years old. He was born in Boston, MA, and attended Northeastern University majoring in business management. He spent three years in the U. S. Army Counterintelligence, mostly in Europe. He speaks German and French and is conversant in Spanish. He lived in Europe for six years, off and on, three years in Africa, one year in Canada and another year in the Bahamas.
Mr. Chapman became a stockbroker in 1960 and retired in 1988. For 18 of those years he owned his own brokerage firm. He was probably the largest gold and silver stockbroker in the world during that period. When he retired he had over 6,000 clients.
From 1962 through 1976 he specialized in South African gold shares. He and his family lived in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and Johannesburg, South Africa from 1970 to 1973. During that time he did a great deal of further study into the South African mining industry.
Mr. Chapman belonged to The Traders Association for 25 years. He did all his own trading. During his South African years some was done directly through Johannesburg, but 95% was done through London brokerage firms. Hence, he has extensive contacts, both in London and on the Continent.
Starting in 1967 Mr. Chapman began writing articles on business, finance, economics and politics having been printed and reprinted over the years in over 200 publications. He owned and wrote the Gary Allen Report, which had 30,000 subscribers. He currently is owner and editor of The International Forecaster, a compendium of information on business, finance, economics and social and political issues worldwide, which reaches 10,000 investors and brokers monthly directly, and parts of his publication are picked up by 60 different websites weekly exposing his ideas to over 10 million investors a week.
In 1976, after the Soweto riots, Mr. Chapman began buying North American shares exclusively for his clients. Up to that point only a handful of American and Canadian issues interested him, due to the high dividends the South African shares had paid out over the years. Between 1976 and 1988 his business surged from 1,000 to 6,000 clients, so the bulk of his business ended up being Vancouver Stock Exchange issues. For this reason he is very conversant with the quality of management, geologists, properties and traders on today’s North American scene. He is well known.
From 1976 to present he has spoken and given workshops at over 200 business conferences worldwide, and has been on radio and TV thousands of times. Until his retirement he was always judged by the attendees to be one of the top three speakers and never once was lower than first in workshops due to his vast knowledge of the mining business and his grasp of worldwide financial markets and political scenes.
In June of 1991, at the request of business associates, and due to retirement boredom, he began writing the International Forecaster.
Over the past 40 years, Bob Chapman has immersed himself in the study of world politics and economics. His articles have run in more than 200 publications. His newsletter, "THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER,” has active subscribers all across world. Bob Chapman has conducted hundreds of workshops at business conferences and has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and television programs.
Some of his uncanny predictions include:
* Called the top of the market in April 2000.
* Predicted 9/11 or an event like that, nine months early, within 33 days of it actually occurring.
* Predicted the invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq two years before they happened.
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