Commodity Prices

Gold •10 mins	2,308.60	-1.00	-0.04%
Platinum •10 mins	965.30	+2.70	+0.28%
WTI Crude •16 hours	78.11	-0.84	-1.06%
Gasoline •16 hours	2.555	-0.041	-1.59%
Ethanol •14 hours	2.161	+0.000	+0.00%
Silver •10 mins	26.69	-0.14	-0.52%

Silver • 10 mins	26.69	-0.14	-0.52%
Copper • 10 mins	4.557	+0.073	+1.62%
Brent Crude • 15 hours	82.96	-0.71	-0.85%
Natural Gas • 16 hours	2.142	+0.107	+5.26%
Heating Oil • 16 hours	2.443	+0.000	+0.01%

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The Public Debt

By Douglas V. Gnazzo - Sep 13, 2013, 5:25 PM CDT

Neither paper currency nor deposits have value as commodities, intrinsically; a 'dollar' bill is just a piece of paper. Deposits are merely book entries. The Public Dept is chapter eleven from a soon to be published book on the history of lawful money of gold and silver coin in the U.S.

The Public Debt