| 1 | The president is estimated to issue a statement. | |
| 2 | By fiat, he means that it has value only because the Fed says it does. | |
| 3 | Now it is just "fiat money, " backed only by the "full faith and credit" of the United States government. | |
| 4 | Under today's fiat-money regimes, central banks, as a rule, control short-term interest rates. | |
| 5 | It is this corrupt manipulation of the financial system and the economy that has totally destroyed the value of money in the last 100 years. |