Welcome to the 244th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance!
What an honor!  The main theme of this blog is all about taking responsibility for your own personal finances.  So today I thought I would theme this edition of the Carnival around sever…

There was a point in time when the Euro did not exist.

And the idea of America introducing a new currency is not some wild fantasy; it has a basis in history. The current dollar is not the first currency we’ve had. We’ve had many different kinds of currency.

It is irrelevant whether a new currency is called the Amero or not… or whether it’s part of a North American Union or not. Those are distractions.

The real issue is: The U.S. is essentially bankrupt. At some point, the dollar will no longer retain its value and a new currency will become inevitable.

Ryan

P.S. I haven’t read your links today… I’ve had a lot of work to get done… but I will look at them. Thanks for doing the leg work.

The North American Union, as well as any currency it may create, remains a fantasy shared only by a few academics and a handful of lobbyists, and nurtured into an alternate reality by conspiracy theorists (Hello, Lou Dobbs!), paranoids (Hello, Ryan!), and hucksters who profit greatly from fomenting such nonsense (Hello, Jerome Corsi and WorldNetDaily!).

If Snopes doesn’t fit your ideological world view, try this from Human Events, a conservative media outlet: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16103

If that’s not enough, how about this from the Seattle Times: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003847255_rams22.html

Or this from the Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/25/the_amero_conspiracy/

Or this from Forex, the currency trading site (note the date): http://forex.gftforex.com/public/item/229682

Or this from the Mises Economics blog (from the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a leading center for the Austrian School of economics and libertarian political/social thought… a place where guys like Ron Paul and Peter Schiff should feel right at home): http://blog.mises.org/archives/008844.asp

And those “plates” you linked to? They’re not plates. They’re someone’s artistic rendering of what they imagine Amero notes to look like. Currency printing plates are large, negative etched copper or zinc cylinders (see http://bit.ly/9VBqPy and http://bit.ly/a3lODN). What’s more is that the site you linked to — as well as the various other sites credited for releasing them in the first place — doesn’t provide any verifiable information about their source. And that’s supposed to be an authority on truth? Riiiight. But, hey, who am I to judge the things that come in so loud and clear on your tinfoil hat?

The fact that you think Snopes is the authority on truth says more than you may think.

Did you laugh too when the Euro was introduced in Europe? Has Snopes debunked the Euro yet?

What you said bears repeating: Using junk to support your thesis undermines your credibility.

Ditto that.

Ryan