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Is there a way to stop
inflation without crushing the economy?
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One of the most dishonest games being played in
economics today is the attempt by various groups (political and financial) to
deflect blame for the rise of inflation. The Biden White House and Democrats
desperately want to blame Russia and the war in Ukraine, even though inflation
was spiking long before the war ever started. The Federal Reserve pretended for
years that inflation was not a threat at all despite numerous alternative
economists warning what would happen. Now they blame supply chain disruptions
instead of their own monetary policies. The GOP wants to blame Biden for the
crisis while ignoring the dominant role of the Fed in the economy (and their
unilateral power).
In the alternative sphere, there are some people
that try to deny the fact that there is more than one type of inflation. They
want to claim it's all about money creation, but this is simply not true. There
is inflation in money supply, but there is also price inflation caused by
numerous factors including bottlenecks in production, bottlenecks in resources,
bottlenecks in shipping, bottlenecks in energy, etc. Anyone that denies this
fact is blinded by bias or just doesn't understand how inflation really works.
Overall, it's fair according to the evidence to
put most of the blame on the central banks and their 14-year
program of bailouts and QE policies. If you have read my previous articles on
the Fed's involvement you know that my position has remained the same for
years. I predicted a stagflationary crisis based on the position that the Fed
was deliberately creating a monetary disaster to make way for a new digital
currency system tied to a global framework, and this is exactly what has
happened so far.
That said, too much money chasing too few goods
is not the only problem we face as a nation. There is also the issue of
globalist interdependency and our reliance on other countries, some of them
hostile, for production and resources. With supply chain disruptions an
ever-present danger, it's not enough to focus on money velocity and the central
bank alone... we won't be solving the crisis that way.
In the liberty movement, there is always debate
about solutions. We all seem to agree on the core problems but can't ever seem
to agree on what to do about them.
There are those that suggest there's nothing
that can be done economically except prepare and wait for collapse so we can
rebuild once the dust has settled. I find myself in this camp more often than
not. Then there are those that believe a political approach is possible. After
nearly half the states in the U.S. blocked the COVID mandates and lockdowns, I
am starting to think solutions at the state level might be viable. Then there
are those that want to build an alternative system, a parallel economy that competes
with the mainstream economy.
This is something I have talked about for a long time. It's the
ideal solution because it is proactive. Instead of waiting around for other
people to fix the crisis for us, regular people simply establish their own
trade and production systems based on necessities, separating from the dying
economy so that when it collapses, they are mostly unaffected.
This, however, is a short-term solution in that large-scale
domestic production is eventually needed to return a country and economy to
greater prosperity. Growing gardens, making trade items and forming local
barter markets is only a way to weather the storm; it is not a long-term path
to growth. What we need is home-based large-scale production of necessities as
well as our own domestic resource discovery.
In order to fight back against monetary decline, the U.S. needs to
produce the majority of its own goods again. If the problem is too much money
chasing too few goods, then we can make our own goods here at home instead of
relying on countries like China and the unstable global supply chain.
Furthermore, what if we focused on quality manufacturing
instead of just creating a supply? It's a notion that might have been suggested
by others, but if this is the case, I have not seen it promoted anywhere,
Consider this for a moment: What if home-based producers were
given incentives by states to manufacture high-quality long-lasting goods?
Remember when a washing machine used to last for years? Remember when a
lawnmower or a chainsaw was made from quality metals instead of loaded with
plastic parts and they rarely broke down? Quality used to be a thing, and the
idea has been all but erased from economic theory.
Today, it's all about quantity because quantity makes a bigger profit.
If items break constantly, it means they need to be replaced constantly, which
means companies make more money. In fact, there are many corporations that
deliberately design products to break quickly so that the consumer must buy
another. But this model does not work in an inflationary environment; it
actually adds to the problem by forcing more money velocity and reducing the
number of functional goods in the system.
Let's say that instead we had numerous manufacturers that operate
out of the U.S., and they are offered a tax jubilee for as long as they are
willing to produce high-quality long-lasting models of their goods. With the
tax incentives, they could offer such goods at a lower price in order to
compete with poor-quality goods from places like China. Now, you have given the
public access to items that they only need to replace every five years, or 10
years, instead of every 12 months.
Money velocity slows down. Now there are more goods on the market
because they last longer. Savings go up because people don't need to spend as
often. Prices in general start to go down. Inflation is subdued and eventually
defeated, because what is money other than a means to provide necessities and
amenities? If those goods last longer, money becomes less relevant to the
health of the economy.
To be sure, there is the argument that higher quality goods and
more savings could lead to decadent spending. In other words, there is the
theory that the more money people have the more they will spend on frivolity,
and this might keep inflation alive. The problem is we have not lived in an
economy based on quality for several decades, so it's hard to say how people
will react. If people have long-lasting items and are secure in their basic
necessities, then what is compelling them to spend with wild abandon? Not much.
The establishment would like to keep the public dependent on the
system by reducing our buying power and controlling access to goods. I suspect
that they will one day offer the same kind of solution... a return to quality.
But only at the price of subservience. The World Economic Forum's "Shared
Economy" concept which they clearly plan to introduce after there is a
major financial collapse would require quality-based production. If everyone in
the world is going to be sharing everything and private property is outlawed,
then the goods that are shared would have to be designed to last.
My suggestion is that we circumvent the establishment entirely and
create our own economic model, still based in private property but also adapted
to quality production. And we manufacture all our goods locally within our own
states and country. I believe this would end inflation, not just today, but for
all time.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
SIDEBAR
America is losing its sense of consensual government under
Biden & his socialist slugs; our DOJ has become like the pigs in Orwell’s Animal
Farm where some are more equal than others in its drive to a two-tiered
system of ‘justice.’
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Towards a Global Food Disaster, Engineered Through Acts
of Political Sabotage
Our power grid is stretched thin and vulnerable [Biden’s spending bill
did nothing for our grid]…I think DC rats want this because if the grid is
attacked, as has happened nine times this year, politicians can use this as an
excuse to take it over and then ration power to consumers in the name of
‘national security.’
The state of the energy
grid: You’ll recall earlier this week there was a “targeted attack”, or simply
aggressive vandalization, on the energy grid in Moore County in North Carolina.
The residents were left without electricity, heat or water during a cooling
spell in early December.
As
I’m sure you’re aware, the attack caused a maelstrom of media speculation about
extremism and terrorists and the fragility of the power grid. For us, we simply
remembered the David Tice and his documentary “Grid Down, Power Up”.
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