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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Knowledge to prepare and prosper

 

 

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Knowledge to prepare and prosper

For those of us who are not well-connected elites (those of us who are not in the 1 percent), there has been no relief since The Great Recession. While the banksters got bailouts and Wall Street and the banksters benefited from the money printers, retirement savings were wiped out.

More working-age people than ever before are not working. More young workers than ever before are still living with their parents. More people than ever before are on the government dole. Retirement funds have been cashed out and spent on living expenses. Wages have not kept up with inflation — not the phony inflation numbers peddled by the Fed and the propaganda media, but real inflation.

Printing-press money is fertile ground for expanding world crisis. Crisis and war are excellent covers for national and international chicanery. Boy, we have it!

How can anyone who is paying attention not recognize these signs for what they are?

In the last days of Rome, the Emperor, Senate, and whomever else of influence attempted to literally cut their coin currency in half. They tried, through full faith and credit of the Roman government, to establish the belief that the currency was worth the same amount as when it was a full-size coin.

Does this sound familiar to you?

It is time to realize that the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is simply a machine used to continually cut the currency in half by producing more currency. How do they do this? They simply increase "liquidity," which means making loans available — creating debt. And to Banksters, debt equals money.

Government(s) and their partners, the central banks, are involved in history's greatest fraud and deception. They are stealing and have stolen the wealth of the world with bank credit ("dollars") while forcing the deception upon the people that they work no longer to build real wealth, but to accumulate depreciating currency.

We "save" in depreciating currency. We buy life insurance in depreciating currency. And we leave our estates in depreciating currency.

Did you know that in the progression of time, the U.S. currency is depreciating toward zero? The public is trained to accept this as "rising prices" or inflation. But it is more specifically depreciating paper money.

The only money that doesn't depreciate over time is that made of precious metals. Gold and silver allow no such monopoly of credit by central banks. Gold and silver are not only long- term value, they are forever. They survive the deception and tyranny of political governments that always turn to dust.

Turning point

The critical point in awareness is reached when the people en-masse realize that inflation is permanent.

The result is that they quickly exchange cash for "things," as they did in Greece a few years ago, and in Venezuela. I've written to you about how Greek businessmen exchanged their devalued and inaccessible currency for machinery and equipment, and people bought appliances and cars. Eventually, this results in economic breakdown and social chaos unless there is barter and a medium of exchange/store of value like gold.

Even Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, said in a speech recently, "We are also seeing increased accumulation of gold as an alternative reserve asset, possibly driven by countries with closer geopolitical ties to China and Russia." Those countries are also buying gold instead of foreign currencies like the dollar. But you're not supposed to notice that.

There are many ways to extend the life of paper money by controlling information. The monetary authorities suppress the price of gold as long as they can; they manipulate public perceptions with a fabricated consumer price index (CPI); they remove monetary indicators like M3; and they constantly talk about "managing inflation." They control the media; and, yes, they constantly talk about the debt ceiling and limiting the national debt. They talk about the trade imbalance.

All this is spurious nonsense, as anyone listening can hear the money printing presses roll in the background around the clock. Note that the government and its politicians never talk about the depreciation and loss of purchasing power of paper money.

Precious metals are the substance of economic survival. They are the essence of privacy and the preservation of wealth.

The government reacts to its interpretation of public perceptions which are closely monitored. At some point, a segment of the population will become aware of the worthlessness of paper money and trigger an alert to the greater population. By reading this, you are in this group already. Good for you!

What are some options for you?

If your pension or retirement fund is in the form of computer symbols in some bank, and it is, you should consider putting a percentage in gold coins to keep in your possession. It may turn out to be all you have. And brother, this is not fear hysteria when you understand how fast things can implode into financial disaster.

When mainstream "personal finance" websites like Nerdwallet and Marketwatch start publishing pieces asking "Is it time to become a financial doomsday prepper?" you know it is past time to turn to gold.

Many things lie beneath the mystique of gold besides greed and fear. What I mean is that most Americans think of gold in terms of dollars. This fact demonstrates the unbelievable power of propaganda over our thought processes. Yet, the time will come again when we will think of gold in terms of value, not "dollars." This will be a move back toward the restriction of politicians and an expansion of and a new birth of human liberty.

Governments hoard gold to stabilize their political and economic power. At the same time, they downplay gold to the people to destabilize their psychic and make them dependent on government credit.

Gold stabilizes human emotions, dissipates fear of authority, and promotes individualism and human dignity. Government-created money (credit) destabilizes emotions, creates fear of unseen authority, creates political tyranny, and it expropriates the wealth of the people.

Currency is faith itself — a belief system. When you think of money or currency, you think of green paper, but 95 percent of "money" is computer symbols in bank computers. More specifically, your money is a pure psychological entity that evaporates as confidence fails.

Gold is substance. It is hard currency. It is the only hard currency. Gold stands on its own.

For gold to be all that we say it is, it needs to be in your possession. We don't mean in your "safe deposit box" at the bank, and we certainly don't mean in some "trust" account or being held (although they usually hold no physical gold) by an ETF (exchange-traded fund) that can go under, as a record number are right now. Precious metals should be in your private safe with other valuable effects.

Why gold really, though?

You ask what we're really buying precious metals for. The answer is threefold: As an investment, as a hedge against inflation, or for reasons of survival should the entire economic system collapse.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to know your mind as you read this. I don't know your tolerance for capital losses, how patient you are, or what your cash flow situation is. I only relate to you what I am doing and it is up to you to decide what strategy and asset class is most suitable.

For example, recently we wrote in The Bob Livingston Letter® about asset protection in the "natural vs artificial" economy, the best high-yielding stocks that pay you to own them, and government financial sleight of hand with accounting and interest rates.

The prospect of their shenanigans reinforces our position that you should invest in hard assets that will appreciate in value. Gold and silver valued at low four figures in paper money are now on the bargain counter as history will record.

Propaganda keeps the crowd asleep. Some find themselves impoverished — too late to recover... their good life is gone and their pomp and circumstance now as silent as a funeral march.

When we mention you should look into investing in gold and silver with reliable companies like Allegiance Gold, it is to preserve and grow your wealth for future generations of your family. When I ask you to visit them and download their latest report "A Safe Investment In An Unsafe World" because their detailed report shows us the simplest and most obvious way to buy gold — in its physical or bullion form — it is for your protection.



I wrote for years, "Don't trust the banks. Most are bankrupt. Don't put your gold and silver coins in the safe deposit box. Keep them at home and keep them secret. Don't keep more cash in the bank than is necessary to cover about a month's worth of bills. This is a flashing red alert."

Those alerts became a three-alarm fire with one of the biggest bank collapses in history.

Therefore in all my years writing The Bob Livingston Letter®, the longest-running investment and health newsletter in the world today, I have never spoken to you about a necessity more urgent than what I have presented to you today.

This is serious business. It is also a serious opportunity to take charge of your assets and wealth, if you pay attention. But, as always, information is the key. And avoiding misinformation. We research for you so that you can offset this and preserve assets. Our priority is long-term value not short-term paper. One is wealth and one is poverty.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, 
The Bob Livingston Letter®

 

 

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Gang of Criminals Trying Trump 

 

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (PCR), former Assistant Treasury Secretary and international award-winning journalist, is worried about freedom and liberty.  PCR says with the latest arrest and prosecution of President Trump, freedom and liberty is dead in America.  PCR explains, “What they do makes it clear they have no claim that they are representatives of justice holding lawbreakers responsible. 

 They are the lawbreakers — they themselves.  You go to trial and it’s the criminals who are trying you, and that’s what’s happened in the United States.  This is happening to President Trump.  This is exactly what is happening to him.  The Department of Justice, which is a gang of criminals, is trying Trump, and they are getting away with it.  

To see top notch analysis and journalism on a regular basis, go to PaulCraigRoberts.org.  All the articles are free, and PCR is a prolific writer.

 


Recent discussions about the possibility of the US dollar losing its status as the world reserve currency have raised concerns about the potential consequences for the global economy.

Some experts argue that if the US dollar were to lose its status, it could lead to significant economic, political, and geopolitical consequences.

The importance of the topic cannot be overstated, as the US dollar's status as the world reserve currency has played a significant role in shaping the global economy.

Any changes to this status could have far-reaching consequences for international trade, financial markets, and geopolitical power dynamics.

Therefore, it is crucial to understand the potential consequences of the US dollar losing its status as the world reserve currency, as well as the possible alternatives that could emerge as replacements."

 

Bad news for the US dollar…

If it loses its status as the world's reserve currency, the consequences across the economy, global power and influence, geopolitics, trade lines, and more would be devastating.

 

[Gold and silver are trading sideways on low volume as traders wait in anticipation for tomorrow's Fed announcement.

Current expectations are for a pause in rate hikes, but not necessarily an end to the Fed's 15-month hiking campaign.]

 

 


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5 comments:

Sam said...

All I can say to those who didn't or won't prepare [expecting gov't to help]-good luck. Don't come knocking on my door when you're in trouble.

Harriet said...

Democrats are skating on thin ice with these indictments of President Trump. They know their cases, especially the one put out by Biden’s DOJ, are flimsy. They are trying to condemn a former president for holding onto documents, something both Barack Obama and Joe Biden did

Hal said...

President Donald J. Trump was officially indicted in a federal courthouse on the false charge that he, the President of the United States, mishandled documents that he, the sole elected member of the Executive Branch, had the singular and total authority to possess in any manner he pleased

Tina said...

Biden's $5M Bribe Caught On Voice Recording-few in lamestream media seem to notice---rats of a feather I guess.

Brad said...

Most everyone we know is sick n tired of BS dem-communists & the leftist stuff they push-may they all rot in hell.