Red Rain
The biggest source of US power, however, is not its military, but it’s money. As long as the dollar remains the cornerstone of international commerce, the US remains the world’s great Caesar.
Commentary
Home Improvement
The new money system distorted just about everything, leaving the world with a vast fake economy…and more than $300 trillion in debt. In the US alone total debt rose from about $1.5 trillion in 1971
Emergency Bypass
Even at today’s relatively low inflation levels, the dollar will lose about one-third of its value over the next ten years. No wonder foreign nations are increasingly joining together to by-pass it.
Plowshares into Swords
The welfare state model no longer works; the center — consensual democracy — wobbles towards the extremes. What to do? Beat our plowshares into swords?
A Pack of Wolves
It’s one thing to skim the profits. It’s another to own the business. The feds don’t know, and don’t care, how to manage an enterprise. They are parasites, not producers; wolves, not shepherds.
It’s a Trap
Thanks largely to the EZ money era wrought by America’s funny money, the world’s reserve currency, feds everywhere spend too much money. Economies adapted to the cash flow.
