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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1536215, member: 3011&quot;]There is no secret to valuing a company, and from that, the fractional ownership represented by a share of stock can be determined.&nbsp; Interestingly, most human societies used credit instead of currency when left to themselves.&nbsp; The use of coin and currency is a development by kings and other dictators of various titles to maintain and grow their power.&nbsp; It was also used for trade between enemies who didn&#039;t trust each other.&nbsp; But the world has run on credit for longer than is comfortable to admit.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348170611&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=debt+the+first+5000+years" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348170611&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=debt+the+first+5000+years" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-5-000-Years/dp/1933633867/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1348170611&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=debt+the+first+5000+years</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This runs contrary to internet economics, and is therefore painful, but it&#039;s something everyone should be aware of.&nbsp; I&#039;m not saying that gold and silver don&#039;t make good forms of money.&nbsp; They do.&nbsp; But it hasn&#039;t be the standard throughout history that the goldbugs make it out to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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