Pulling the conclusions from my article;

TL; DR

America manipulated its citizenry to steal its gold reserves

Hoarded and adjusted the pricing of gold after the heist, to increase profit

Decoupled the dollar from gold reserves sending it free-floating in valuation

Rigged the valuations of other currencies to prevent other countries from gaining against the USD

The decoupling allowed the Federal Reserve to print at their heart’s content

The unlimited money printer allowed stocks to become highly over-priced

Central Banks pushed American Citizens and American Businesses to spend beyond their means, and take on more debt then they’re realistically capable of servicing

Banks punish American Citizens for placing money in savings accounts with laughably minute interest rates, all while charging them for even holding funds in these accounts through hidden fees

Big Business gets continuously bailed out for making stupid decisions, and then using the funds to pull their money from the market and then purchase small business that bleed into bankruptcy, increasing their market share of control indirectly

Cost-of-living has inflated out of control

Wages have not been kept up to the rapid pace of inflation

The population growth rate is negative

Retirees are pulling funds from the system through social security, under-funded pensions, IRA’s and 401ks being cashed out

That system doesn’t sound like a system that I want to be involved in, let alone suggest those that I care about get involved with.

Why would you want your loved ones to go play a game that is designed to prevent them from winning?

Inflationary vs Deflationary

The current system is inflationary. We were raised on the thought that “inflation is a good thing.” As the population swells, and more individuals enter the job/spending market we need more money in circulation to fill all of those bank accounts, right?

But then when you print more money to dump into circulation that devalues every dollar that is being held in checking accounts, wallets, safes, and mattresses. Every one of those dollars now has less purchasing power because the market share of that $1 dollar was decreased when the total supply was increased. When you take the fraction of (1/2) and increase the value of the denominator without increasing the numerator to maintain the status quo… you end up with a loss in value.

1/2 to 1/3 = 50% to 33.3%, resulting in a loss. “THAT’S WHAT INFLATION IS” in simplest terms*

More specifically it is classified as Demand-Pull Inflation. But imagine just how much less potent you and I’s dollars are when they are being printed on a trillions-at-a-time scale.

The funny thing is that many of us understand that the cost of goods (i.e. milk, clothes, gas) tends to react to inflation with increased cost. Now, there’s some supply vs demand mechanics at play as well but for the sake of argument, we’ll assume that S&D is in harmony. More money; the cost of goods goes up; the cost of living then goes up, rent goes up, utilities go up, BUT wages stay relatively the same. That right there is a net loss. MASSIVE net loss.

Now let's look at deflation.

Deflationary systems are what the Gold Standard was. Money backed by a rare commodity that is deemed desirable by the market that nobody can print away. This commodity is rare by nature and requires effort to acquire it, causing its value to go up because of the work, the rarity, and the demand vs the supply.

Over time, as more and more individuals desire this commodity and fewer and fewer individuals are willing to sell — price goes up. And it goes up until sellers arrive at the market to allow values to change hands. As the market works its self through price discovery, the dollar is losing power against the commodity itself, but gaining in purchasing power vs goods & services on the market because the dollar is backed by the commodity. Allowing for individuals [and countries] to earn purchasing power in return for goods & services provided.

The US doesn’t like this because as we started out-sourcing labors, to maximize profit margins, and started consuming more than we were producing we began to diminish in value as a whole — crazy how a fair economy works huh?

Gold^= dollar < Gold (dollar gets weaker vs Gold),

*BUT* dollar > goods & services (dollar gains against goods & services because it’s backed by gold)

Which also brings into question technology. Tech is deflationary. New tech is expensive — we all know this. The latest iPhone? Hardly cheap.

BUT, as that tech becomes easier to attain and generic versions are made and the tech is mimicked, the higher standard of technology becomes THEE standard and thus cheaper.