The “Great Reset” and the Future of Money… Here’s What You Need To Know

Via International Man

The Great Reset

International Man: What is the idea behind the so-called “Great Reset?”

Nick Giambruno: We’ve seen countless examples of the self-identified elite in the West using that term recently.

But let me first ask, who put these people in charge? Who anointed them the leaders of the world?

They’re not only talking about resetting the financial system but dramatically changing the nature of life.

I think something sinister is going on, and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. It’s all in the open now.

So, let me try to summarize something incredibly complex.

These people recognize the current international monetary system based on the US dollar is on its way out. Even Jerome Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, acknowledges that the US dollar’s supremacy is fading.

Although they would prefer to continue milking the current system, they realize it’s failing and the need to bridge the gap to a new system which they hope to control.

Nobody knows what the next international monetary system will look like—not even the elites. However, they know what they want it to look like.

They want a totalitarian control grid with central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), movement licenses, mandatory medical procedures, and a social credit system, among other nasty things.

Simply put, the Great Reset agenda is a high-tech, communist, global panopticon.

In short, they want total control over you in all domains—a new feudalism.

They’re emotionally manipulating people with fear and false narratives into accepting things they ordinarily wouldn’t—like their enslavement.

That’s what their Great Reset agenda is all about. It’s self-evidently anathema to personal freedom, human dignity, and self-determination.

Whether the self-proclaimed elites get all or some of those things is an open question.

The best scenario for mankind would be for most major governments to go bankrupt—which they are well on their way to—before they can implement the Great Reset agenda.

International Man: It seems changing the money so that governments can have more control over people is a big part of this plan. How do you see it?

Nick Giambruno: I see it like this.

Don’t let any government, whether it’s the US government, the Chinese government, or a global government entity like the IMF, tell you what money is.

Money does not need to come from the government. That’s a total misnomer that the average person has been brainwashed into believing.

It would be similar to transporting yourself back in time and asking the average person in the Soviet Union, “Where do shoes come from?”

They would say, “Well, the government makes the shoes. Where else could they come from? Who else could make the shoes?”

It’s the same mentality here regarding money today—except it’s much more widespread.

The truth is money doesn’t need to come from the government any more than shoes do.

People have used stones, glass beads, salt, cattle, seashells, gold, silver, and other commodities as money at different times.

However, for over 2,500 years, gold has been mankind’s most enduring form of money.

Gold didn’t become money by accident or because some politicians decreed it. Instead, it became money because countless individuals throughout history and across many different civilizations subjectively came to the same conclusion: gold is money.

It resulted from a market process of people looking for the best way to store and exchange value.

So, why did they go to gold? What makes gold attractive as money?

Here’s why.

Gold has a set of unique characteristics that make it suitable as money.

Gold is durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, scarce, and most important, it’s the “hardest” of all physical commodities. In other words, gold is “hard to produce” relative to existing stockpiles and the one physical commodity most resistant to inflation. That’s what gives gold its monetary properties.

Bitcoin shares many of gold’s monetary characteristics. Like gold, Bitcoin does not have counterparty risk, and nobody can arbitrarily inflate the supply.

Here’s the bottom line.

I would encourage people to be sovereign individuals and recognize what works best for them as a vehicle to store and exchange value, rather than thoughtlessly accepting whatever the government gives them as money.

International Man: What makes government money dangerous?

Nick Giambruno: Governments reap enormous power from their racket of printing fake money out of thin air and forcing their citizens to use it. Whether it’s Venezuela, Lebanon, Argentina, or the US, it’s the same scam. It allows governments to act like vampires and feast on their citizens’ savings.

Imagine if you had that kind of immense power?

You could create something with little to no effort and then force everyone else to accept and use it as money. You could create paper wealth out of thin air and cut your enemies off from the economy. You’d be very powerful.

That’s why all governments treasure their monopoly on money.

Remember, government money is political money. It’s a potent tool to steal from and control you.

Consider what happened to the truckers in Canada in early 2022. With no due process or judicial review, the Canadian government seized their bank accounts at the flip of a switch. The government granted itself the power and made it a simple administrative task.

We will see many more of these kinds of actions—and more severe ones—soon.

International Man: What can the average person do about this?

Nick Giambruno: The incident with the truckers in Canada and other recent events have been stark illustrations of the dangers of government money.

On the other hand, they’ve been terrific advertisements for real money.

I’ve studied money, monetary policy, and monetary history. I’ve been to Zimbabwe, Argentina, Lebanon, and other countries that have experienced hyperinflation.

In my view, the most important attribute of money is that it is hard to produce—its “hardness.” In other words, something that is resistant to inflation.

Think of money like a claim on human time. It’s like stored life or energy.

Would you want to put that in something that somebody else can create with no effort or cost?

Of course, you wouldn’t.

It would be like storing your life savings in Chuck E. Cheese arcade tokens or airline frequent flyer miles. Putting your savings into government currencies isn’t that much different.

What you want to do is to put your money into something that someone else cannot make easily.

Here’s the bottom line.

The vast majority of humanity does not understand what makes for a good money. Instead, they’ve been hypnotized into believing something inferior—the scraps of paper or digital entries that governments can create with no effort—is good money.

It’s a sad state of affairs and one of the biggest swindles in human history.

To enact their Great Reset agenda, the elites count on the average person not understanding the issues around money. They are relying on people blindly swallowing their poisonous CBDCs.

The most effective thing the average person can do to fight against this agenda is not to store their life force in government currencies. That way, the government—and the elites behind them—cannot use inflation to siphon off your monetary energy to fund their nefarious plans.

The idea is to put a meaningful portion of your savings into hard assets, apolitical, neutral money that has no counterparty risk and is resistant to inflation.

I put physical gold coins in your possession, as well as Bitcoin, in that category. But only Bitcoin where you control the private keys and do not depend on the permission of a third party—like an exchange or custodian—to access your money.

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The Duke of New York
The Duke of New York
May 1, 2022 6:07 pm

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Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  The Duke of New York
May 1, 2022 9:27 pm

How is it these Khazarian Mafia, like Henry Kissinger, are still breathing?
When will someone “take one for the team” and have a Kamikaze moment?
Asking for a friend….

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Saxons Wrath
May 2, 2022 5:28 am

Really? When You look around, on a % basis, will You?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
May 2, 2022 10:26 am

More people are ready for that than you think.

BL
BL
May 1, 2022 6:17 pm

Why are these tards pretending we won’t get CBDC shoved down our throats? Just make up your own money…. right.

How far do you think I would get if I took a Silver Eagle to Kroger and tried to pay for my food? Maybe I could swap the store manager a calf for my week’s groceries. I rest my case.

We will have to live in conclaves and produce all of our own products in order to issue our own payment system, TBPville anyone?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  BL
May 1, 2022 6:36 pm

TBPville anyone

You have seen the forum. This, in physicality?

Two weeks to gunfire, tops.

But I’m in.

Red River D
Red River D
  Anonymous
May 1, 2022 10:11 pm

“…Two weeks to gunfire, tops…”

Nah. The trick is every man has to have his own plot of land, over which he makes the rules and can kick anyone off his property he pleases, for any reason, at any time.

Good fences and shit.

People are still way more respectful and courteous face to face than they are online or behind the wheel of their conveyance. It’s just one of those things.

And two grown ass men cannot live under the same roof. There’s another one of those things. Call them Maxims to live by.

BL
BL
  Red River D
May 1, 2022 11:22 pm

Red- I’m pretty sure Stucky would shoot me dead or 2 x 4 me into my next lifetime within 2 weeks. 🙂

Red River D
Red River D
  BL
May 2, 2022 12:07 am

Stucky is a pussycat. He only wants to slay commies and other deviants.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Red River D
May 2, 2022 5:41 am

Don’t forget Issac, And his 2 sons, Jacob and Esau. Think they all lived under the same roof. Jacob and his mommy conspired to obtain Issacs’ blessing under false pretenses, successfully. And it was clearly OK with God.

Trading Your Birthright for a bowl of soup? AS ALWAYS, God was correct.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
May 2, 2022 5:31 am

And who is the enemy, and what are You killing for?

“Thou shall not Kill”. Pretty emphatic.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
May 2, 2022 12:52 pm

Thou shall not murder not kill…

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
May 1, 2022 6:39 pm

“In short, they want total control over you in all domains—a new feudalism.”

Welcome to Neo Feudalism. Same as old feudalism except worse.

“The best scenario for mankind would be for most major governments to go bankrupt—which they are well on their way to—before they can implement the Great Reset agenda.”

Why are we allowing them to use the grid to further our enslavement. The grid is their friend not ours.

If the US grid went down right now the entire world grid would collapse. Why? Credit is needed for everything now. Shipping, farming, manufacturing etc.

Bill Holter on credit. Everything you do and use relies on credit.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 6:40 pm

People who cannot control their own weight problems are going to control everyone on Earth?

Think about it.

These people are fantasists living in a dream world where all the weird looking, stuttering, oddballs who never fit in as children seek revenge for their unhappy past.

It isn’t real, it’s theater.

Meg
Meg
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 6:56 pm

Exactly 1000%. My Dad’s first cousin was an H K minion in DC. I was born into the system and didn’t realize it until my 40s (10 years ago). I wish it were as simple as to just leave the system. It is not but with my new awareness I am building a new life, thank God for husband #2. Thank you Lord for discernment.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 7:06 pm

I was a nerd once. Maybe still am. But not seeking revenge.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 7:57 pm

It isn’t about their intelligence or competence, and certainly not about their good ideas.

It’s about everyone else. The vast majority demands that someone (besides themselves) be in control. The more control, the better. The majority wants to cede control of their lives to some grand benefactor. And they absolutely will not believe that their benefactor is anything but beneficent.

To fill this need for a benefactor, the egomaniacal control freaks step into the gap. It doesn’t matter if their ideas are crap, or brilliant. If they work, great. If not, they always get another chance. If one control freak is too bad, another will be voted in or appointed to replace him (there’s no shortage of ’em).

They can control everyone. They can do so because almost everyone demands it.

You and I are the oddballs who don’t fit in. Neither those who want to be in control, nor those who want to be controlled can countenance our continued exposing of their lives as inhuman.

Saying they can’t is like saying that they can’t surveil every bit of digital, and a huge amount of non-digital information about everyone. They may not have something purposeful to do with all that collected data; but rest assured there’s a small army of taxpayer funded, over-educated, government drones busy figuring out something to do with it. And when they figure it out, it’ll be implemented whether it makes any damned sense or not.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Anonymous
May 1, 2022 8:08 pm

Well said.

BL
BL
  Fleabaggs
May 1, 2022 8:14 pm

Anon nailed it.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Anonymous
May 1, 2022 8:26 pm

Saying they can’t is like saying that they can’t surveil every bit of digital, and a huge amount of non-digital information about everyone. They may not have something purposeful to do with all that collected data; but rest assured there’s a small army of taxpayer funded, over-educated, government drones busy figuring out something to do with it.

That’s another lie. They haven’t got any kind of digital surveillance worth a damn. Everytime someone goes into a jail cell the cameras fail. Everytime a court orders emails to be turned over they get erased. Everytime a fat retard with a limp shoots up a subway, they vanish into thin air. Remember when they were going to install sensors in every city so no one would ever get away with a gun crime because they could triangulate the shots instantly? Remember Carnivore? The Fusion Centers? It’s so clearly a joke I can’t believe anyone continues to buy into it.

Do I think they have nothing? Of course not. Do I believe they have the tools to create a panopticon worthy of anything but ridicule?

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I binge watched a bunch of crime documentaries when I was bedridden a few years back with the broken foot- serial murderers, small town murders, Ponzi schemes, criminal conspiracies, you name it. At the end it became crystal clear that 90% of all crimes would go unpunished if it weren’t for either a confession or a random traffic stop with a body in the trunk. Detectives may be among some of the stupidest people with gainful employment on Earth. And that’s when they have a crime and they are actively investigating. The diea that the lives of everyone on Earth are being watched is simpleton territory.

It just isn’t true.

Not that they won’t fuck your life up if you become the target, but then they just create whatever evidence they want and formulate whatever Narrative they’re instructed to- not a pleasant thought, but definitely SOP.

You have to discard this perpetual fear of these pathetic creatures and their fabulist fantasies.

“For the only safe harbour in this life’s tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.” — Seneca

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 8:51 pm

Jesus Christ instructed us not to worry about tomorrow.

Ken31
Ken31
  YourAverageJoe
May 1, 2022 11:07 pm

But he also said to prepare.

Red River D
Red River D
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 10:18 pm

“…You have to discard this perpetual fear of these pathetic creatures and their fabulist fantasies…”

The ONLY way to live. And not for nothing Farmer…

…but that sounds rather like something THE LORD Himself would have said — and certainly has, in other words to that effect.

Ken31
Ken31
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2022 11:06 pm

Those sound triangulation things never worked in theater. They stopped talking about them kind of abruptly, come to think of it. You can’t fool the guys on the ground.

I have been in fusion centers, and it is impressive on the surface, but it is really just a lot of money to do what an simple intranet feed does better.

Your take makes sense to me, like ICE-9’s on the food thing did earlier.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
May 2, 2022 6:02 am

I generally admire everything You write. In Fact, One of the earliest to inspire the WOW factor in me many yrs. ago. Shamefully, can’t remember if it was actually on ZH, or just from a link to this site, when it had one.

I can’t thank You enough, and would consider it an Honor to shake your hand if the situation ever arose, with Your consent.

Given the ‘failure’ of video proof on various auspicious occasions, (pentagon plane attack for instance)…You really believe it’s ineptitude? And that…”They haven’t got any kind of digital surveillance worth a damn.”?

On the off chance that you would be bedridden ever again, My mother was addicted to the same viewing genre. Appalling mental impact. Bad as Faux News.

ICE-9
ICE-9
May 1, 2022 7:20 pm

I’ve got a new money money system and it’s backed with beans, rice, and ammo.

BL
BL
  ICE-9
May 1, 2022 8:16 pm

Better have some gold to pay those property taxes Ice or you’ll be “livin’ like a refugee”.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  BL
May 2, 2022 6:05 am

Kinda ‘guaranteed’ that stratospheric property taxation is in the pipeline.

Svarga Loka
Svarga Loka
  ICE-9
May 1, 2022 8:43 pm

Better than the current currency.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Svarga Loka
May 2, 2022 6:28 am

Really? tons of people couldn’t make change unless the cash register told the the amount. Met plenty of tradesman who can’t read a tape measure properly after 1, 5, 10, 20, etc. Yrs of ‘experience’. It’s EXACTLY the same in any occupation, from ditch diggers to literal rocket scientists. Challenger explosion, compliments of NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts, Blind Hubble telescope, Not withstanding.

Ya think people are going to haul around a triple-beam scale and pare off the correct amount of gold/silver? Please.

Cash U.S. in all forms including change is never going away. At least until we are at the point of trading food for water/ other necessities. The irony being that even a child perceives ‘Value’ in cash/change.

CBDC’s or not.

tr4head
tr4head
May 1, 2022 7:41 pm

If the Reset happens, and all of us should pray it never happens and actively fight its forces, Bitcoin and other cryptos will be made illegal and MAYBE be bought back via eminent domain at less than you have invested like the Roosevelt Gov did in the 30s. I wont touch it for that reason. Besides, we all know Bitcoin is worth its weight on Gold.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  tr4head
May 1, 2022 9:48 pm

I would never consider Shitcoin. When the grid goes down and the internet is cyber attacked good luck with shitcoin. When the EMP weapon is used or a massive solar flare which would have the same result how ya gonna get it out of your wallet? HaHa
The only thing I can think of worse than paper money with imaginary value is Invisible money with imaginary value.

Red River D
Red River D
  Anonymous
May 1, 2022 10:25 pm

Reading between the lines issued by official and “accepted” sources, Bitcoin does seem to have something of a target painted on it.

I don’t give financial advice, except for when I do. Give that sucker a wide berth!!! She’s going under.

BL
BL
  Red River D
May 1, 2022 10:28 pm

Warren Buffet said he would not buy all the Bitcoin in the world for $25. You could be spot on Red.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Anonymous
May 1, 2022 10:48 pm

Exactly. Imagine gathering by a barrel fire at the landfill trying to trade your thumbnail drive with your HOPEy HOPEYcoins worth bazzillions for a moldy potato.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  tr4head
May 2, 2022 1:04 pm

I’ll take the most worthless currency in the world and be happy… IF you give me enough of it. Everyone is complaining about stuff that never happened, and may never happen.

card802
card802
  tr4head
May 2, 2022 7:49 pm

From Armstrong:

“These governments will confiscate all cryptocurrencies and say thank you very much for Blockchain that can trace everyone who ever handled a Bitcoin. Since Cryptos are on the grid, they can easily seize them and in combination with terminating paper money, outlawing gold and silver futures in Europe will allow the New World Order to take hold. Perhaps now you can see the strength in the dollar into 2023. Biden will not make a similar move before the mid-term election.”

Boogieman
Boogieman
May 1, 2022 7:43 pm

A little group called the illuminati put these men in charge. There, I said it. You don’t hear it much anymore, but their still there. They’ve always been there, at least for the last millennium.

Ashkenazi and the secret under world. Make no mistake, they have the power to move mountains. That is, when good men choose to do nothing.

Fielding Mellish
Fielding Mellish
May 2, 2022 7:41 am

I don’t know why anyone would listen to Henry the Kraut anymore. He’s just a sour old man. A Sourkraut.

OSCAR
OSCAR
May 2, 2022 9:20 am

Excellent article and a very important warning. I agree that hard money is an important method of skirting govt control. But I was disappointed to read the author’s push towards Bicoin WITHOUT even mentioning cybercurrencies’ downside – it is traded using electricity and the internet and will be a target of govt overreach. That he didn’t mention that the internet is suspectible to solar flares shutting it down, tolling energy blackouts shutting it down, or worse, coming government controls shutting it down, was a bad oversight in the midst of an outstanding warning. Despite that one mistake, the author’s overall claims stand and his column remains vital information in these bizarre times.

Shemp Hawking
Shemp Hawking
May 2, 2022 10:17 am

Ok, gold. A one oz. Gold Eagle coin is worth $1897. Asking price is right around two grand. So you put the majority of your life savings into gold. Then TSHTF and there’s a shortage of everything. Who’s going to have change if you want to buy or barter for a loaf of bread, a box of ammo, gasoline, basically anything? A $2K gold coin will be almost worthless.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Shemp Hawking
May 2, 2022 10:46 am

You guys aren’t very good at this. You never take the time to properly infiltrate, you always use the same tired old midwit rhetoric that’s been used for the past 25 years and then you fail to follow up.

It is like you don’t care.

No one minds an occasional disruptor, in fact around here people love to play smear the queer with you guys, but you don’t put any effort into it.

Sad.

DRUD
DRUD
  hardscrabble farmer
May 2, 2022 2:36 pm

Why are you certain “Shemp” here is a bot or paid troll? Not doubting you, I just tend to take everyone at face value and assuming good faith. I suppose you could say its a weakness, but maybe not.

It is a valid question and one I like to address from time to time, because it is worth thinking about. I hear this “you can’t eat gold” and it is too valuable argument all the time.

It may well come to pass. But I don’t think it the most likely outcome. Does anyone suppose that even in a serious collapse there won’t be rich people? Or that there will no longer be high value trades occurring? Again, maybe some day, but there is a lot of floor on that elevator trip to hell before we get there. Also, there will most likely be a new, and assuredly less corrupt, system set up sometime in the future. If so, Gold will have value in it. Even if I’m too old or too dead to utilize it, my daughter might be able to.

And, of course, there is the too obvious point to make: most of use here already have ammo, food, gasoline stored up. Plus, of course there is also silver, which goes into a quite small denomination.

Like this ( a stacking addict’s version of a Dime Bag):

https://www.providentmetals.com/100-face-value-90-roosevelt-silver-dimes.html

mike
mike
May 2, 2022 11:00 am

can you put more pop ups on this site?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  mike
May 2, 2022 1:48 pm

Working on it as we speak.

Tom
Tom
May 2, 2022 1:37 pm

Bit coin is not money, period.
Gold is a valuable commodity as is bit coin currently, but gold is not money until it becomes “monetized” by creating a denominated coin out of it.
At issue is that people do not understand that every dollar in the US economy is backed by an equal amount of assets held by the FRB. Most of those assets are US bonds and other debt instruments. It’s your promise to pay your car loan and mortgage that backs the US dollar. But much of it is gold and silver.
Asset values, like gold and bit coin, are determined by the market.
This is the main reason the Govt cannot simply create 30 platinum $1 trillion dollar coins and purchase all the US bonds back from the FRB, the market says those coins are only worth the platinum they are minted with so the PRIVATE FRB will not take the government coins.
We have a ridiculously awesome financial system, but the government keeps abusing its borrow and spending power. COVID brought an additional $5.7 trillion in debt to the US, expanding the money supply exponentially. Of course we are going to have inflation. The FRB’s hands are tied by the ridiculous spending of the government. If we want to maintain the dollars superiority, the government must stop spending beyond it’s means.

DRUD
DRUD
  Tom
May 2, 2022 2:26 pm

Bit coin is not money, period.

Agreed. Not sure where is fits, but its price (as opposed to value) is determined emotionally. That alone sets it up for collapse. However, it is also the very high up in the complexity hierarchy…meaning it relies on the flawless operation of many complex system in order to function. In a systemic collapse it will be one of the first things to go.

At issue is that people do not understand that every dollar in the US economy is backed by an equal amount of assets held by the FRB. Most of those assets are US bonds and other debt instruments. It’s your promise to pay your car loan and mortgage that backs the US dollar. But much of it is gold and silver.

No…but close. The Fed’s “assets” (a term of art for imaginary things of imaginary value) are reserve assets. It’s right there in the name. Only certain banks can receive these funds and exchange these funds between them and back to the Fed. It is a gigantic and unnecessary (wasteful) circle jerk.
The money we use, is created by those banks. Lent into existence based upon (primarily) their reserve assets. This leverage gives banks extraordinary power for a short period of time, but inevitably ends in conflagration, as debt builds exponentially over time and then implodes.

Asset values, like gold and bit coin, are determined by the market.

Ultimately yes. But while the system is running, said banks have a large degree of control over the price of Gold and Silver. The “value” of these assets is best measured in pure weight terms–grams or Troy Ounces. That is a paradigm shift that will come….has come many times in history and occurring right now in places like Venezuela. The purchasing power these grams and ounces is determined by markets.

But, here is the key aspect of gold and silver. They have been money for millennia. The question is Why?

Because, as the article states, they have all the properties of money….more or less a sound, but somewhat circular argument. Who determines what these properties are? Governments? Markets? Well, yes and no. As far as I can tell, these are entirely emergent properties. Meaning they will show up anywhere and anytime human societies do. Gold emerging as money is as natural and immutable a process as major and minor scales showing up in music. As natural as whales singing and dung beetles making balls of shit.

If we want to maintain the dollars superiority, the government must stop spending beyond it’s means.

I have a simple rubric…every time I even see the word “we” I ask who is meant. A lot of bodies are buried under those two letters. I assume you mean we American citizens who use the dollar. Well, yes and no. Right now it is convenient and beneficial to use dollars…it is also a prison.

Of course, the US government wants the dollar to maintain its superiority. BUT, they will never do the second part of that statement. For the same reasons listed above. Thinking government can cease to spend above its means is like asking whales to climb Everest or dung beetles to eat only fresh veggies.

Bruiser in Houston
Bruiser in Houston
May 2, 2022 3:29 pm

Oh look, another gold advertisement.