by Chris Powell
GATA.org
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
What is the “soul” of money.
In a speech last month to Goethe University’s Institute for Law and Finance in Frankfurt, Germany, the general manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Agustin Carstens, declared that the “soul” of money is trust in central banks:
https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp220118.htm
You know — the institutions that, often in secret, bestow huge amounts of money on their cronies in politically connected financial institutions, rescuing the rich at the expense of the poor; that intervene secretly to manipulate and destroy markets, picking winners and losers; and that, their executives being unelected, generally subvert democracy.