The Apocalypse of 1776

And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

-Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Inflationary Stock Market Recessions

Increasing stock prices in 1923 did not reflect the strength of the German economy; rather, the prices reflected how much value the German money was losing. Do not simply look to stocks declining to predict a recession. Look to banks printing money and why: debt.

Slovak Gold

The Slovaks have an additional reason to be wary of putting any new purchases of gold in London. In 1938 the NAZIs annexed the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. In 1939 the NAZIs invaded. The newly conquered Czechoslovakians had their gold transferred to the NAZIs by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in London

The End of Western Hegemony

Macron: “We are undoubtedly experiencing the end of Western hegemony over the world”

Putin: “Many countries are now turning away from the dollar as a reserve currency. US dollar will collapse soon.”

Recommended Reading

Spoiler alert: they dislike Socialism. Ludwig von Mises had to flee his native Austria for the USA because of Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers’ Party’s (NAZI) anti-Semitism.

Keynesianism

On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon defaulted on US gold payments. He said, “I am now a Keynesian in economics.”

To the Church

James 5:1 “Come, you men of riches, bemoan yourselves and cry aloud over the miseries that are to overtake you. Corruption has fallen on your riches; all the fine clothes are left moth-eaten, and the gold and silver have long lain rusting. That rust will bear witness against you.”

Warnings

The December 2000 rate cut preceded the recession in March 2001 and the July 2007 rate cut preceded the Great Recession beginning in December 2007. July 2019 was the first rate cut since 2008 and occurred 4 months ago as of November.

Not Worth a Continental

The phrase, “Not worth a Continental,” will soon be commonly known for the same reasons that it was said in the early Republic: the USA are broke and the paper money is becoming worthless.

October 30th and 31st

“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” -Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Meet the Press, August 7, 2011.

Augustus or Cincinnatus

“The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to ancient Rome.” -President of the USA, Donald Trump.

Not QE

There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.

The Rise and Fall of the New Roman Empire

From 1492-1914 the New Eastern Romans and New Western Romans discovered, conquered, and colonized the majority of the world; spreading their common Greco-Roman culture. In 2019, the USA has been bankrupted by foreign wars, debt, and Socialism. The USA, like the Western Romans, have transformed from a Republic to an Empire.

IORR, IOER, and FFR

This article seeks to explain how interest rates are set by the Fed. The subject is meant to sound complicated but it is not once one understands that the Fed is trying to keep interest rates low to inflate the stock, housing, and bond bubbles.