Guest Post by Ron Paul
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve’s policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly, and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed’s operations shows that the central bank is the leading cause of economic inequality.
The Federal Reserve manipulates the money supply by buying and selling government securities. This means that when the Fed decides to pump money into the economy, it does so by putting it in the pockets of wealthy, and oftentimes politically-connected, investors who are able to spend the new money before the Fed’s actions result in widespread inflation. Wealthy individuals also tend to be among the first to invest in the bubbles that form when the Fed distorts interest rates, which are the price of money. These investors may lose some money when the bubble bursts, but these losses are usually outweighed by their gains, so they end up profiting from the Fed-created boom-bubble-bust cycle.
In contrast, middle-class Americans lose jobs as well as savings, houses, and other assets when bubbles burst. They will also not benefit as much as the rich and well-connected from government bailouts and stimulus schemes. Middle- and working-class Americans also suffer from a steady erosion of their standard of living because of the Fed’s devaluation of the currency. This is the reason why so many Americans rely on credit cards to cover routine expenses. The Federal Reserve is thus the reason why total US credit card debt is almost one trillion dollars.
Big-spending politicians are also beneficiaries of the fiat money system. The Fed’s purchases of US debt enable Congress to massively increase welfare and warfare spending without increasing taxes to politically unacceptable levels. The people pay for the welfare-warfare state via the Fed’s hidden and regressive inflation tax.
Low interest rates also benefit politicians by keeping the federal government’s interest payments low. This is an unstated reason why the Fed will keep interest rates near zero or even lower interest rates below zero.
In response to the government-caused economic collapse, the Federal Reserve increased the money supply by about a trillion dollars from mid-April to early June. In contrast, it took the Fed all of 2019 to grow the money supply by 921 billion dollars. Even before the lockdown, the Fed was massively intervening in the economy in a futile attempt to prevent economic crisis.
A coming crisis will likely be triggered by a collapse in the dollar’s value and a rejection of the dollar’s world reserve currency status. The economic collapse will be worse than the Great Depression. This will result in widespread violence along with government crackdowns on liberties, accelerating the US slide into authoritarianism. The only way to avoid this is for Congress to make drastic cuts in spending — starting with defunding the military-industrial complex — and to audit then end the Fed.
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If not, the Black Liberation Movement (BLM) will end it with Extreme Prejudice.
Unfortunately the reality is that MIC is probably the last thing we need to reduce. War with China is now a distinct possibility. That’s just where we are now.
One thing I can be sure of: if the US Navy cannot guarantee oil coming out the Straights of Hormuz or is evicted from the South China Sea, then it’s probably over for the dollar regime. I am not sure about the calculus of losing the reserve currency status voluntarily at this point, if RP is right about its effects. Past the point of no return, maybe?
That is absurd.
Think about this: Either Banks go broke from all their bad loans, or the Fed prints a gazillion dollars bailout; and hyperinflation drops the US Dollar 50%; the Chinese lose $1.5 Trillion (ie half their dollar savings); then they send over a very pissed off Army to collect everything they can get their hands on stamped “Made in China” to take back home. Oh yeah, they commit some bad mischief while at it.
The sad thing is, if China invades the USA and commits mucho mischief, they probably won’t even abduct our young women. We’ll be stuck with the purple hair and tatts… forever.
Please, there will be no war with China. All the sabre rattling aside, the Chi coms have their own problems and they need us like we need them. The same group shaking their sabres at Russia have now turned to China because….we have always been at war with Oceania/eastasia….
China crosses the Pacific? Supply chain for such an endeavor? How about a hair from impossible.
How about hundreds of empty ships off the shore of China?