{"id":6348,"date":"2013-01-30T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:02:04","slug":"money-kills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6348","title":{"rendered":"Money Kills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MoneyKills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6349\" title=\"Money Kills\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MoneyKills-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Money Kills\" width=\"782\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MoneyKills-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/MoneyKills.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe caption is incomplete or incorrect.<br \/>\nAn inanimate object is not to blame for how it is used or misused.<br \/>\nMoney is merely an idea backed by confidence. Withdraw the confidence in it and it loses its value.<br \/>\nThink of money as a vote and support for where you are spending it.<br \/>\nStop supporting those who do evil with money and you are withdrawing support from them.<br \/>\nThere needs to be enough money in existence to exchange the value of goods and services produced in the economy. No more and no less. If you have more money than the value of goods and services you get inflation. If there is less money than the value of goods and services you get deflation.<br \/>\nIf the government creates the money instead of borrowing it from a private source (as it should) in the correct relationship to the goods and services being brought into existence then there is neither inflation nor deflation and no increasing debt.<br \/>\nFinancial management of a country it is that simple.<br \/>\nIt is made more complex in order to confuse and control people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The caption is incomplete or incorrect. An inanimate object is not to blame for how it is used or misused. Money is merely an idea backed by confidence. Withdraw the confidence in it and it loses its value. Think of money as a vote and support for where you are spending it. Stop supporting those &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=6348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Money Kills&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration","category-wealth-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55057,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/55057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}