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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Fed is destroying our economy

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If red states want protection from collapse, they will have to establish alternative economies

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Economic centralization is the ultimate form of organized conspiratorial power, because it allows a small group of people to dictate the terms of trade, and therefore dictate the terms of each person's individual survival. For example, the Federal Reserve as a banking entity has free rein to assert policy controls that can disrupt the very fabric of the U.S. economy and the buying power of our currency. They can arbitrarily create trillions of dollars from thin air causing inflation, or arbitrarily raise interest rates and crash stock markets. And according to former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, they answer to no one, including the U.S. government.

I have started to see a new narrative being spread within the mainstream media platforms as well as alternative media platforms suggesting that the Fed is necessary because it is working to "counter" the agenda of Biden and the Democrats and is "protecting" America from the schemes of the U.N. and European interests.

This is perhaps the most moronic theory I've ever heard, but it makes sense that the central bank and its puppets would be trying to plant the notion that the Fed is some kind of "hero" secretly battling on our behalf. The money elites within the Fed and associated with it have over the past 14 years inflated perhaps the largest financial bubble in the history of the world. They did this with bailouts, they did this with QE, they did this with COVID pandemic checks and loans, and now the bubble is about to pop. They know it is about to pop because they want it to pop.

As I have warned for years, the Fed has been staging massive sabotage of the U.S. economy. Why? Because the U.S. economy must be diminished in order to make way for the "Great Reset," a term created by the World Economic Forum to describe an unprecedented paradigm shift in the global economy and how it operates, and a complete upending of society. The end game is openly admitted. A one-world digital currency system and one-world governance controlled by a league of corporate partners working in concert with politicians.

This is not a conspiracy theory; this is a conspiracy reality. This is an undeniable fact.

The Fed does not care about the U.S. economy, its loyalty is to a global agenda, and it takes its marching orders from a consortium of other banking institutions called the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). This is how global central banking policies are coordinated to either work in harmony to create artificial stability, or to work in conflict, creating artificial crisis events.

The truth is, the foundations of global governance already exist, but what the establishment does not have is public acceptance and submission to their authority. What the banks want is to create a crisis so frightening that the masses will run to them, begging for help. Once a population begs their captors for relief or resolution and it is given, it's far less likely that the people will revolt against those captors in the future.

Psychologically, the central banks and the establishment elites are trying to create mass Stockholm Syndrome, and we are seeing it already with the Federal Reserve being painted as the "shield" holding back the tide of economic ruin that they actually engineered.

The initial stages of the Great Reset have already been launched. With the economic bubble expanded to incredible levels, the Fed is not staging an aggressive implosion using interest rate hikes into economic weakness. There are multiple problems that come with the current dynamic:

Stagflation

With stagflation, normal credit market interventions do not necessarily work right away. As we saw recently with the official CPI print rising despite the Fed's rate hikes, price is not going to go down that easily. During the last stagflation event 40 years ago, the Fed raised rates to around 20 percent before prices finally stopped rising, and back then the U.S. did not have $31 trillion in debt, nor did it just print over $8 trillion in the span of two years. Rates are likely to go much higher than many people expect.

Treasury Bond Crisis

The Fed replaced foreign investors like Japan and China as the primary buyers of U.S. government Treasury bonds years ago. Now, with the Fed cutting purchases, reducing its balance sheet and raising rates, who is going to buy all that U.S. debt and keep the government funded? Well, the answer is no one. For now, foreign purchases are enough to give a semblance of stability, but with geopolitical tensions rising it's only a matter of time before countries like China dump their T-bond and dollar holdings completely. Then, the dollar's world reserve status will come into question and inflation becomes an even greater threat.

Stock Market Spiral

Without the Federal Reserve as the backstop fueling corporate share buybacks with cheap money, stocks will continue to slide. They'll jump every now and then on rumors that the Fed will pivot away from tightening, and when the Fed doesn't, stocks will start sliding again. Without stimulus and near-zero rates, there is no hope for equities beyond the occasional jawboning.

The Fed has the ability to slow down or speed up all of the conditions above, and so far, they appear to be speeding things up. We obviously can't rely on the Biden administration to do anything about these problems; in all likelihood, Biden and his handlers are joyful at the prospect of the inevitable calamity. No one in government is trying to do anything legitimate to stop the landslide and no one is trying to prepare Americans for the consequences.

Thus, it is up to individuals to prepare and warn their friends and family, but what about a larger organized response?

Despite numerous claims that conservatives would "do nothing" to stop the rise of medical fascism in the name of the COVID pandemic, almost half the states in the U.S. stood their ground against the mandates and the push for vaccine passports. If this had not happened, America would look like China does today with endless lockdowns and draconian tracking apps. I don't think enough people understand just how close we came to losing every freedom we have left. We were on the doorstep of an Orwellian hell, and probably civil war.

The red state defiance of COVID restrictions represented an organized action at the state and interstate levels. What if these states did the same thing in the face of the economic crisis?

Without organization at the state level to create alternatives to the mainstream economy, the plight of the public becomes much more daunting and dangerous. Rather than trying to start completely from scratch, there are solutions that can be pursued at the state level to help mitigate the disaster.

Currency Alternatives

States like Texas, Utah and Louisiana (Dem controlled) all have legislation in place to utilize gold and silver as legal tender. Such efforts need to be expanded to as many states as possible, and the list of alternatives needs to grow. Gold, silver, copper, and other commodities like oil, electricity, wheat and grains could be used to back a state-recognized currency system. Is it constitutional? Not technically, but the federal government violated the constitutional money creation mandate over a century ago when they allowed the institution of the Federal Reserve. The system is already broken.

If states were to offer commodity-backed currencies in parallel with the dollar, then they could actually stave off price inflation and possibly reverse it. This can't be achieved by only one or two states, though. It would have to be organized among multiple states with multiple trade agreements in place.

State Banks

North Dakota has its own state-run bank that provides credit opportunities specifically to ND locals and ND businesses. It has operated successfully for decades. Why has no other state adopted this model? Why should we rely on banks that are all tied back to corporate conglomerates that want to destroy us?

Localized Trade Alternatives

States should be utilizing the resources within their own borders to generate jobs and economic prosperity. Why are states and citizens in those states allowing the federal government under Biden to dictate the terms of how they grow their economies?

Leftists will claim that resource management needs to be supervised by federal agencies, but why? These people have consistently proven themselves to be incompetent and destructive. Why should they be trusted to control our ability to expand in our own states?

The only hope any state has to weather the coming storm is to localize production and manage its resources to kick-start trade. Local production would act as a redundancy should the mainstream economy collapse (which it will). States don't need Biden's permission to make this happen, they can and should act now before it's too late.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

The stagflation trap will lead to food rationing

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The stagflation trap will lead to Universal Basic Income & food rationing

This past week during a conference discussing Biden's "Build Back Better" scheme, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was confronted with questions on skyrocketing inflation. After referring to higher gas prices as the "Putin Tax," she went on to offer perhaps the dumbest (or most insidious) explanation on the causes of inflation that I have ever heard. She stated:

"When we're having this discussion, it's important to dispel some of those who say, well it's the government spending. No, it isn't. The government spending is doing the exact reverse, reducing the national debt. It is not inflationary."

Anyone with a basic understanding of economics and how central banks operate must have felt their brains explode when they heard this, I know I did. But before I get into the numerous reasons why this claim is completely false in every way, I want to give a warning... it's very easy in this situation to assume that Pelosi and even Biden are making these arguments because they are too stupid to grasp the fundamentals of debt creation, money velocity and fiat. That said, never mistake evil for mere ignorance.

All representatives of the White House are briefed by economic experts well before they answer any questions on inflation, and the things they say have been carefully scripted. It's possible Pelosi mixed her lies up a little bit, but the narrative the establishment is trying to promote is well planned. Asserting that money creation is a counterbalance to inflation instead of the cause is not brilliant, but it's not designed to convince many people, only create confusion.

Let's not forget that only last year these same people were telling the public that inflation was purely "transitory" and that there was nothing to worry about. Now they are trying to cover their tracks and the culpability of the Federal Reserve. I believe the goal here is to simply stall for time until the stagflationary collapse unfolds. They have the perfect scapegoat as they launch an economic war with Russia (and likely China in the near term), and the effects of this war will hurt the U.S. and Europe far more than many realize.

So, to quickly break down Pelosi's bizarre statement I will make a couple of root observations:

Paying down the national debt has nothing to do with reducing inflation. Even if you could somehow gather enough assets to pay off the national debt without creating new dollars from thin air the current inflationary problems would persist. There would still be the matter of the tens of trillions of dollars already fabricated and floating around the global economy. Inflation is directly related to money supply and money velocity. The national debt is secondary to the issue.

Now let's ask the most obvious question: If government spending "reduces the national debt" by paying it down, then why hasn't the national debt ever gone down?

The Fed and the U.S. government created over $6 trillion in fiat money in 2020 alone, and the national debt only went higher. In fact, the explosion of the national debt correlates directly to the number of dollars created by the Federal Reserve to supply various stimulus policies and bailouts over the years. The national debt in 2008, at the onset of the credit crash, was around $10 trillion. It took hundreds of years to reach that level. In the span of only 14 years of Fed money creation, the debt has now tripled to over $30 trillion.

I'll say it again... government spending and Fed stimulus has tripled the size of our national debt in less than 14 years. And, of course, inflation has spiked as the number of dollars injected into the global system causes the buying power of our currency to decline dramatically. More fiat dollars equal less buying power. This is reality.

Also, using Russia as a scapegoat just doesn't hold up. Russian crude oil only makes up 3 percent of U.S. imports. Therefore, there is no way that sanctions on Russian oil are the cause of rising prices. Inflation was hitting 40-year highs back in December of last year, well before the war in Ukraine. News on Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes moves oil far more than news on Ukraine.

To summarize, I have a special message for Nancy Pelosi: Shut up you blood-sucking crone. The American people are smarter than you, and your propaganda script is full of holes.

Onward to more important issues...

This narrative is not only about protecting the Biden administration, but also about protecting the central banks. As former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan once openly admitted, the central bank answers to no one, and that includes government officials. Many theorize that it is actually the central banks and international banks that make the majority of policy decisions for government, and politicians have very little say in matters. I'm inclined to agree given the number of banking elites and globalist Council on Foreign Relations members that seem to permeate every single presidential cabinet (this includes Trump's cabinet as much as Biden's).

Biden is an empty shell of a man barely able to maintain a semblance of sanity, who do you think really runs the country?

I have been writing a lot lately about how establishment elites and globalists actually benefit greatly from a stagflationary crisis, as long as they are able to divert blame to other sources and are not targeted for retribution by the public. Some of these benefits include a cover event for an agenda that the World Economic Forum calls the "Great Reset," which is essentially just another name for the "New World Order."

Isn't it marvelous that the hailstorm of COVID fear porn that was bombarding Americans only a few months ago has now suddenly vanished? What happened? Well, the establishment was defeated, that's what happened. With conservatives and moderates in red states in the U.S. and in nations around the world fighting back against the mandates, the globalists must have realized the battle was lost. Suddenly all talk of vaccine passports and medical tyranny is gone.

I realize there are some people out there that give the globalists too much credit and still argue the COVID scheme was some kind of success. These people are wrong. If you want to see what success looks like, go to China, where hundreds of millions are still suffering from lockdowns and no one can do anything without an up-to-date vaccine passport and QR code. In China, vax passports are also used for tracking the population as well as an element of their social credit scores. This is what the globalists wanted for all nations including the U.S., and they didn't get it. Therefore, it's on to the next crisis...

The stagflation threat worries me more than any other for a number of reasons, and it's not just because of the potential for extreme poverty. As we all know, the strategy of "order out of chaos" is about creating enough desperation within a target population that the people are willing to give up their freedoms in exchange for a semblance of safety and normalcy. But what specific controls would the establishment seek out?

Stagflation has the ability to trigger much higher prices in necessities, while it simultaneously drags GDP down along with wages, jobs, manufacturing, etc. There is also the very real threat of government price controls, which would suffocate production and reduce the supply of goods even further. There are two initiatives within the WEF's Great Reset agenda that parallel stagflation almost exactly and I predict we will be hearing about them often in the coming year.

First, there is the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). We heard a lot about this a few years ago, but the idea didn't stick too well with the American public. The truth, however, is that we already had UBI for a time in the form of "COVID stimulus checks." This helicopter money was funded by over $6 trillion in central bank fiat created from nothing, and then directly injected into citizen accounts. It was barely enough to live on by itself, but in conjunction with other welfare programs and unemployment checks, some people were living the easy life at home for well over a year.

This small taste of UBI might have given people the wrong impression about such stimulus programs. By themselves, the COVID checks would not have been enough to keep people housed and fed; the standard of living for the average person would have to fall dramatically for UBI to work at all. Enter stagflation...

With economic disaster already crushing our living standards, it could be easier for the establishment to lure the public into UBI. Along with communist-style price controls across the board (and a reduced population due to starvation and poverty), the public would be able to survive, but barely. There would no longer be such a thing as "personal wealth," only the scraps that governments and bankers are willing to throw people. On top of that, resistance to tyranny would be nearly impossible, because once the government becomes mommy and daddy as the only source of food and housing for the citizenry, they are far less likely to stand against any abuse the establishment wants to dish out.

UBI is a candy-coated trap that breeds dependency in a population.

This leads us into the second WEF program, which is the concept of the "shared economy." The danger here involves rationing. A government cannot institute UBI measures during a stagflationary crisis without also instituting price controls, because otherwise the fiat stimulus used to provide the UBI checks would only create more inflation in prices. If UBI is meant to offset inflation but creates more inflation, then UBI becomes useless. This is another little fact that people like Pelosi will try to gloss over when they claim that money printing helps "fight inflation."

When price controls are implemented, manufacturing will implode further, because price controls mean producers of necessities will not be able to make much of a profit (or no profit at all). There will be no incentive to produce among the people that actually know how to produce, and these people are not easy to replace. The supply of goods will not be able to meet demand. Naturally, the government will take the opportunity to limit the number of goods any single person or family is allowed to purchase or stockpile through rationing cards.

These kinds of measures have been used in the past, usually during wartime. But in this case, the rationing will be digital and permanent, and it will be designed to further control food and other goods as a means to prevent rebellion by the public. If you can't store more than a week's worth of necessities at any given time, then your ability to defy the government as they cut off your UBI is nonexistent unless you know how to live off the land.

I will cover solutions to these problems in an article coming soon. I think it's important that people within the liberty movement and outside of the liberty movement start thinking about the scale of the crisis we are facing. It's not just about economic disaster and adapting to the loss of supply chains and stable currencies, it's also about fighting back against the inevitable government response to the crisis. They will try to take advantage of people's pain and use it to lure those people into slavery. This cannot be allowed to happen.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith

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