My daughters are all struggling with the basics these days, particularly those with young children and teenagers. The price of the basics has escalated since the lockdowns but more importantly since the Ukraine war. Both created by government.
What ails the youth as they struggle to survive today? Intuitively, one would think that money, like that which it buys, would be an asset. But that second-order derivation is from a bygone, simpler time and these are not them (see “The Great Taking” download https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/1ee786fb-3c78-4903-9701-d614892d09d6/taking-ebook-c044a5e.pdf ). Now, we function on the other side of the Mobius strip, where Federal Reserve “Notes” are the coin of the realm and fractional reserve banking allows for financialization of debt (that is, creating debt and calling it money). Since money is now created (and not earned through production of assets) it can and is now being abused by too much money chasing too few necessities of life. This is debasement of the currency and functions as a secret tax on wage earners. Our government is akin to a teenager living in their parent’s basement, with no money of their own, but having secured the credit card of Mom and Pop, spending for today’s wants and kicking the payment down the road to our children's children’s children. This only proves Lord Acton’s dictum that we mere mortals cannot handle god-like power without spending everything on drugs and chicks, while hoping for the best. But there is a corollary to hoping for the best, and that is to expect the worst, which is what our parent’s grandchildren are now confronting. The problem is wholly created by a ruthless parasitic entity. We have tried talking therapy and even drugs to poison the behemoth . All that is left to try now is surgery.
There I present a new metric combining the velocity of money with the debt-to-GDP ratio. Bottom line: it looks terrifying... I don't know how you get out of a mess like this.
My daughters are all struggling with the basics these days, particularly those with young children and teenagers. The price of the basics has escalated since the lockdowns but more importantly since the Ukraine war. Both created by government.
Our Money is Debt
What ails the youth as they struggle to survive today? Intuitively, one would think that money, like that which it buys, would be an asset. But that second-order derivation is from a bygone, simpler time and these are not them (see “The Great Taking” download https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/1ee786fb-3c78-4903-9701-d614892d09d6/taking-ebook-c044a5e.pdf ). Now, we function on the other side of the Mobius strip, where Federal Reserve “Notes” are the coin of the realm and fractional reserve banking allows for financialization of debt (that is, creating debt and calling it money). Since money is now created (and not earned through production of assets) it can and is now being abused by too much money chasing too few necessities of life. This is debasement of the currency and functions as a secret tax on wage earners. Our government is akin to a teenager living in their parent’s basement, with no money of their own, but having secured the credit card of Mom and Pop, spending for today’s wants and kicking the payment down the road to our children's children’s children. This only proves Lord Acton’s dictum that we mere mortals cannot handle god-like power without spending everything on drugs and chicks, while hoping for the best. But there is a corollary to hoping for the best, and that is to expect the worst, which is what our parent’s grandchildren are now confronting. The problem is wholly created by a ruthless parasitic entity. We have tried talking therapy and even drugs to poison the behemoth . All that is left to try now is surgery.
Chuck, I think you will be interested in my earlier article, assuming you haven't read it already, regarding economic deception and collapse: https://surak.substack.com/p/economic-deception-and-collapse
There I present a new metric combining the velocity of money with the debt-to-GDP ratio. Bottom line: it looks terrifying... I don't know how you get out of a mess like this.