Statutory laws, the laws that get passed with great pomp and circumstance aren’t the laws that really govern society though they might look like they do. But if they really did, why is it that the crimes committed by Soviet commissars or by the Nazi Gestapo. . . or by the CIA . . . were all committed with the law books bulging at the seams? It’s not how many laws you have that matters, but how well those laws are obeyed. Which is a matter of culture and history, of what people expect…. and what they’re prepared to accept. … Continue reading Fiat Laws, Fiat Currencies