[Posted
Nov 15, 2009]
Goldseek Nov 12, 2009
- ROB KIRBY
PRABHUPADA: Yes. That is going on. Therefore price is increasing daily. Formerly British government, in the beginning, to prove their honesty, as soon as you go to the currency for changing, they will offer you, "You want coins or paper currency?" So if you think that paper currency will be convenient, you can take. Otherwise, if you want coins, they will pay you.
PUSTA KRSNA: Gold coins.
PRABHUPADA: Yes, gold, silver, whatever you want. That was the... Now this is stopped. You can not ask now gold coins and silver coins. Whatever government will give you, you have to accept. Where is honesty?
TAMAL KRSNA: So printed money should have gold behind it.
PRABHUPADA: Yes, that is the theory. What is the rate of economy?
TAMAL KRSNA: What is the idea...
PRABHUPADA: That is called...
TAMAL KRSNA: Gold standard.
PRABHUPADA: Not gold standard, but there is a technical name. That means if you print notes, currency note, immediately you have to keep stock of gold in the reserve bank. Reserve. Therefore it is called...
TAMAL KRSNA: The gold reserves.
PRABHUPADA: Gold reserve. Gold reserve, yes. At least forty percent.
TAMAL KRSNA: What's the idea behind that?
PRABHUPADA: What is that? The idea is cheating. The cheating business begins from the government. And why people will not learn to cheat? This is cheating. I am giving you one paper, one hundred rupees, dollars, and you are happy: "I have got so many ..." I am giving you check, ten thousand dollars. You got ten thousand dollars. Now I give you a paper. But it is going on. We have made machinery in such a way that it will go on in hundred rupees or ten thousand rupees. Just like this fixed deposit. I am giving actual money; they are giving a receipt. And it will increase. What increase? The same paper. And gradually inflation is going on. They'll pay at the inflation rate.