I honestly hate to make this my first article. I had a few plans on doing something special but thanks to the lack of character space in the comment section, I had to use a newspaper, thus spoiling my big entrance.
But after reading your comments and going back in your past articles you have left me no choice but to sound mean. I strongly believe that you are out of your element with being the Finance Minister.
First of all, you are using your Government Endorsed Economic Updates to advertise your own personal companies. No matter what country you are in, that is a NO-NO. Cabinet Ministers are suppose to be advocating the people, not shamelessly plugging for their own personal gain.
Second, the 5g does sound ridiculous to me and that fact that it doesn't to you causes me to worry. What is stopping me from buying the 5g and then selling it at a higher price. You said that it was put out as a guideline, I have to call BS on that. Although me calling BS assumes that you know what you are doing what I believe you do not. So I will just give some friendly advice. Using only 5 gold as a guideline will do absolutely nothing, you would have to put a much larger amount on the market, something large enough that no one could buy it up and resell it. Gold is alot more valuable to the government than it is to the common Joe. With the power to issue currency, the government should never be issuing gold for sale.
Here is an example, the gov takes 10 gold and issues it for currency, that would bring 2000CAD. Take the 2000CAD and post it in the MM at 0.0327(which you already have some set at). Now you have set the value of currency which directly affects the price of gold. People would not pay outrages prices for Gold when they will not see a return due to the regulated value of CAD. Additionally, it is impossible to regulate the amount of gold on the market when the admin controls how and where gold is distributed. The only thing the government has a chance to control is the amount of currency. Once the market begins to pick up and Canada gains citizens, we can turn away from the MM and let it regulate itself, something that would be ideal.
Like I said, that 5 gold can be better utilized than throwing it on the market.
Thirdly, offering jobs for new players is not enough. I also have to mention, I did not see a single government company offer jobs when I signed up a few days ago. Strike one. In a game like this where making gold and player development takes a lot of time at the beginning, newer players need a reason to join and a reason to participate. What better way than offering higher payed jobs that allow noobs to buy higher Q foods and power level up. Not only will that get stronger citizens, it will get the noobs to join a gov company and give you their contact information that would allow MU recruiting and pushing forum sign ups. None of which as been done and I bet none of which has even been thought off. Strike two. Lastly, the constant contradictions in your statements show, at least to me, the there is a lack of ability to comprehend the economic aspect of the game. One sentence says you are trying to regulate and then the next says you are giving a guideline, followed by another line saying you do not want to jump completely in the pool. This type of indecision will cause at the very least a stagnation in the Canadian economy, at the very worst, well I won't go there. Strike Three.
I apologize to those who have read through the wall of text but I need to get my point across in this issue. Our country is free and we are dishing out some good firepower in the battlefield, I will be devastated to see that ruined 2 months down the road because we did not have the financial support to back up what we are doing now.
If anyone wishes to contact me directly, I am online too much already so don't hesitate to send me a message.
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Edit:
The article/economic update I am referring to can be found here found here
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