How do you get employees to work hard for you?

Pay them as little as possible while promising a long term escape.

If you pay them too much, they will retire and stop working.
If you pay them to the point of comfortable, they won't work as hard.

(Note: the above is not my idea, it is how the world works today.)

Open letter to the board members of the Federal Reserve

Current policy is a step in the right direction but will lead to hyperinflation in the next few years.

Maturing bonds are apparently $3.5 billion this year.  Replacing them with created cash will place $3.5 billion in the hands of bond holders who will spend it.  That is inflation, but not a whole lot.

In a few years, maturing bonds will become much more significant.  With $18 trillion outstanding, when will the first $1 trillion maturing occur?  You have that data.

THE POINT:

You need an accounting rule or legislation that will stop the cash creation.  The Fed can borrow from another institution against its assets OR they can sell assets and purchase bonds.

So, when the Fed replaces the bonds that reach maturity they have 3 choices:
1. use the proceeds from the maturing bond
2. borrow against other assets
3. sell other assets for dollars

If you'd like more solutions, let me know.

Sincerely,
Andrew Bransford Brown

PS. the number of Wall Street firms with fees on top of fees and selling forward every penny on the anticipated transactions is incredible.  Get back to basics, toss out the middle man, and the Treasury and Federal Reserve would reap a windfall.

Ending quantitative easing

It appears that the new Fed policy is to end the purchase of new bonds. So, they are not printing money any more. As long as that policy holds tight. 

As the Treasury has a $1 trillion shortfall in revenue, they will be forced to sell new bonds to the general market.  Hopefully, the market will place pressure on Congress to balance their budget.

That might lead to a strong dollar.

As the Fed appears to be maintaining static balances of T-bonds, I hope they aren't creating cash to replace the bonds as they mature. If the Treasury pays the principal, the Fed can use the proceeds to replace it.

What is a good currency?

A good currency? None has been invented yet. Currencies become accepted when they are tied to something tangible. Then they are corrupted and inflated out of existence, to be replaced by a new currency with finite amount.

The finite tangible currency becomes adopted rapidly, but then becomes a constraint on economic growth. The 'cross of gold' is an example. Then, the currency becomes inflated and the cycle repeats. 

Fractional reserve has the potential to solve many of these issues, but would require rock solid central banking accounting to something tangible. And probably finite, or at least easily quantifiable. 

Bitcoin is finite, so pricing things in Bitcoin, creates a 'cross of Bitcoin'. Also, due to its electronic nature, and for the above reasons, Bitcoin requires alternative currencies.

The 1st global exchange is open for business!

I have opened discussions with the SEC of the United States. Since my initial offer is in Thai Baht, likely discussions with the Thai SEC will be required. I have also introduced this to the Bank of England.

Please see attached screenshot or visit http://cryptograffiti.info for live updates.

An event-based public ledger

While Bitcoin's "blockchain" is a step in the direction of a public ledger, it only works with Bitcoin and does not show the other side of the transaction.  There are companies who are attaching data to the "blockchain" to try and create a public ledger for all transactions, however, the design of the "blockchain" was for Bitcoin and not as a generalized public ledger.

The solution below WAS designed as a general public ledger.  It will support any transaction in any currency and any form of value.  It was designed in late 2007.

The "smart-contract" format described will create an event-based public ledger.  Please note: the "blockchain" has two main functions:  1. verify integrity of the data so it can't be modified, 2. propagate that data across different databases.

Smart Contracts - the format

Any contract.  Any monetary transaction.  Works with any language.  The format is simple and understandable.  Works for finance.  Works for legal.  Works for IT.

While it works to store past transactions, open transactions provide an exchange, so it works for stock exchanges, currency exchanges, or grocery store transactions.


One table with 5 columns:

Transaction ID

Commerce ID - person/entity identifier
Item Type - initiating value, terms, value, delivery, notice, status
Description - quantity and value OR terms OR status/notice messages
Time Stamp

Example - Selling 100 IBM for a final price of 4900 USD:

Initiating a transaction, 100 IBM, myCommerceID

Terms, 5000 USD, myCommerceID

Corresponding Value, 4900 USD, hisCommerceID

Accepted, contract, myCommerceID

Delivered, 100 IBM, myCommerceID

Delivered, 4900 USD, hisCommerceID

Completed, completed, myCommerceID

Completed, completed, hisCommerceID

Example - Buying 100 IBM for a final price of 5100 USD:

Initiating a transaction, 5000 USD, myCommerceID

Terms, 100 IBM, myCommerceID

Corresponding Value, 100 IBM, hisCommerceID

Modification, 5100 USD, hisCommerceID

Accepted, contract, myCommerceID

[deliveries on both sides of the contract]

1. Note the identical structure for both the Bid and Ask.  Everything is a commodity.

2. In-process transactions create a market place for goods and services.

3. The standard format allows other companies to participate.

The above is what I term a "transaction stack".