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The Dollar Collapse is now in motion
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The decline of a currency's world reserve status is often a long
process rife with denials. There are numerous economic "experts" out
there that have been dismissing any and all warnings of dollar collapse for
years. They just don't get it, or they don't want to get it. The idea that the
U.S. currency could ever be dethroned as the defacto global trade mechanism is
impossible in their minds.
One of the key pillars keeping the dollar in place as the world
reserve is its petro-status, and this factor is often held up as the reason why
the Greenback cannot fail. The other argument is that the dollar is backed by
the full force of the U.S. military, and the U.S. military is backed by the
U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve. In other words, the dollar is backed
by... the dollar; it's a very circular and silly position.
These sentiments are not only pervasive among mainstream
economists, but they are also all over the place within the alternative media.
I suspect the main hang-up of liberty movement analysts is the notion that the
globalist establishment would ever allow the dollar or the U.S. economy to
fail. Isn't the dollar system their "golden goose"?
The answer is no, it is not their
golden goose. The dollar is just another stepping stone toward their goal of a
one-world economy and a one-world currency. They have killed the world reserve
status of other currencies in the past, why wouldn't they do the same to the
dollar?
Globalist white papers and essays specifically outline the need
for a diminished role for the U.S. currency as well as a decline in the
American economy in order to make way for Central Bank Digital Currencies
(CBDCs) and a new global currency system controlled by the IMF. I warned about
this years ago, and my position has always been that the derailment of the
dollar would likely start with the end of its petro status.
In 2017 I noted that the sudden power shift over to crown prince
Mohammed Bin Salman signaled a change in Saudi Arabia's relationship with the
U.S. I stated that:
To understand how drastic this coup has been, consider this — for
decades Saudi Kings maintained political balance by doling out vital power
positions to separate, carefully chosen successors. Positions such as Defense
Minister, the Interior Ministry and the head of the National Guard. Today,
Mohammed Bin Salman controls all three positions. Foreign policy, defense
matters, oil and economic decisions and social changes are now all in the hands
of one man.
The rise of MBS was backed by something called the Public Investment
Fund (PIF), a fund comprised of trillions of dollars supplied by globalists
within Carlyle Group (Bush family, etc.), Goldman Sachs, Blackstone and
Blackrock. MBS garnered the favor of the globalists for one specific reason. He
openly backed their Vision For 2030, a plan for the dismantling of "fossil
fuel" based energy and the implementation of carbon controls. Yes, that's
right, the head of Saudi Arabia is backing the end of oil, and part of that
includes the end of the dollar as the petro currency.
In 2017 I stated that:
I believe the next phase of the global economic reset will begin
in part with the breaking of petrodollar dominance. An important element of my
analysis on the strategic shift away from the petrodollar has been the
symbiosis between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has been the single
most important key to the dollar remaining as the petrocurrency from the very
beginning.
I believed that the threat to petro status would ultimately be
spurred on by a proxy war between East and West. I noted that:
World economic war is the real name of the game here, as the
globalists play puppeteers to East and West. It is a geopolitical crisis they
will have created to engineer public support for a solution they predetermined.
Back then I thought that such a proxy war would be initiated in
the Middle East, possibly in Iran. However, it's clear that Ukraine is the
powder keg the globalists have chosen, at least for now.
In the years since I made these predictions, the relationship
between Saudi Arabia, Russia and China has grown very close. Arms deals and
energy deals are becoming a mainstay of trade, and this has led to a quiet but
steady distancing of the Saudis from the dollar. This past week, the dominoes
were set in motion for dollar collapse when Saudi Arabia announced
at Davos that they are now willing to trade oil in alternative currencies.
In response, Xi Jinping pledged to ramp up efforts to promote the
use of the Chinese yuan in energy deals. This falls in line with another
article I wrote in 2017 in which I how conflict with Eastern nations (China and
Russia) would be exploited to create a catalyst for the end of the dollar's
petro status.
The importance of the Saudi announcement cannot be overstated;
this is the beginning of the end of the dollar. The dollar's world reserve
status is largely dependent on its petro-status. Without one, you cannot have
the other. This is almost the exact same dynamic that led to the implosion of
the British Sterling decades ago as the global petro currency which resulted in
the rise of the dollar to take its place.
This time, though, it will not be a single foreign currency that
takes on the role of world reserve, it will be a basket currency system
controlled by the IMF called Special Drawing Rights, along with a single global
digital currency that is yet to be named but is now under development.
The consequences of the loss of reserve status will be devastating
to the U.S. economy. It is the only glue holding our system together. The
ability to defer inflation by exporting it overseas is a superpower only the
U.S. enjoys. The Fed can print money perpetually if it wants to in order to
fund the government or prop up U.S. markets, as long as foreign central banks
and corporate banks are willing to absorb dollars as a tool for global trade.
If the dollar is no longer the primary international trade mechanism, the
trillions upon trillions of dollars the Fed has printed from thin air over the
years will all come flooding back to the U.S. through various avenues, and
hyperinflation (or hyperstagflation) will be the result. It would be a veritable
disaster.
This dynamic is already in play, as foreign holders of
U.S. debt and dollars have been dumping them at a record pace since 2017. The process continues
at a time when the Federal Reserve is cutting its balance sheet and raising
interest rates, which means there is no longer a buyer of last resort.
The effects of the decline of the dollar may not be immediately
felt or become obvious for another year or two. What will happen is consistent
inflation on top of the high prices we are already dealing with. Meaning, the
Federal Reserve will continue to hold interest rates higher, and prices will
barely budge, or they will climb in spite of monetary tightening. Even in the
face of a major recessionary contraction, which I predict will be triggered
starting in April, prices will still remain
higher.
All the while the mainstream media and government economists will
say they have "no idea" why inflation is so persistent, and that
"nobody could have seen this coming." Some of us saw it coming, and
it's because we accept the reality that the dollar's days are numbered.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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