"Fix the Money, Fix the World!"

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Originally published at: https://peakprosperity.com/fix-the-money-fix-the-world/

I can count the number of people who have accurately diagnosed that it is our very system of money that is rotten. There are no laws, no rule sets, no social nudges that can fix a system of money that has a serious design flaw at its core. Debt-based fiat money always has to keep expanding. And while it’s doing that, the wealth gap just keeps growing and growing. Carry it on long enough, and the entire world will be in debt to a single entity.

And I can count on just two hands the number of financial and economic observers who have taken that insight down to its very essence: “You can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet.”

Of course, this is the core message of The Crash Course, and something that this week’s Finance U guest, Larry Lepard, gets deeply.

Like me, Larry is a sound money advocate. His tagline is “Fix the money, fix the world.”

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And he’s right. While sound money alone is insufficient – laws and rules are still needed – it is the necessary first condition of getting back to a future of prosperity and economic well-being.

The hardest part about living through an era such as ours, one dominated by fake news, bad ideas, and narrative enforcement, is maintaining a proper outlook so one can make good decisions.

These days, what’s most important is separating the truth from the lies, and the real news from the avalanche of fake noise. This is where Larry truly shines.

So, if you want to be properly oriented, to understand Larry’s motivations for investing heavily in gold and Bitcoin, then tune in.

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More employees losing their jobs so that “stakeholders” benefit.
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What is baffling is why only the libertarian conservatives are talking about this issue.

“Progressives” supposedly care about “the working class”/“average person”, yet the resulting inflation from a rotten money system impacts poorer people the most and is why your average person can’t afford a house any more and is struggling to buy groceries.

It is why in a family, both parents have to work with high incomes to afford a house.

It is why health insurance is outrageous.

It is why property taxes are insane.

Instead, they just want to apply patches with money loaned into existence which makes the problem worse.

Said progressives also supposedly care about the environment, but they are obsessed with climate change; do they not realize the absolute worst thing for the environment is a monetary system that requires continuous growth on a finite planet?
Do they not realize if the climate change theories are accurate (which I doubt), excess co2 emissions are just a symptom of a growth based economy?

On the other hand, libertarian leaning conservatives are against having any social safety nets and want super low taxes which is not really a good idea either.
They are also opposed to good regulations like minimum wage and protections for tenants.

We need a sane informed moderate left to counter-balance libertarians and contribute.

Right now the libertarians are the only ones that are making any sense, and I am politically homeless. I hold my nose and vote for right wing parties (like new-blue provincially in ontario which is right of PCs) because I have no other choice.

It shouldn’t be this way, what the heck happened?
What will it take to cure the masses of the current far-left mind virus? Why have the progressives embraced evil? Can they even be cured?

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Chris is talking lot of this maths problem. He is also PhD. Is there new model somewhere in PP to look at? To get grasp what we should be looking at once this crash is happening.

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Their “side of the debate” is controlled opposition, like the Tea Party after it was co-opted and destroyed.

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Progressives control most of the levers of power, and so as Chris pointed out, they are making bank. They have no interest in stopping the gravy train. Also, they never gave a shit about the little guy, that’s just window dressing.

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I don’t think either progressives, libertarians, conservatives, or any other “ives” control the levers of power. That belongs to our oligarch overlords. Some like Soros pull the levers from the left, others pull the levers from the right. But none of the parties really control anything. That’s why the little guys are rapidly all becoming the poors no matter who is temporarily in charge.

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Business as usual on Planet Earth :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Larry’s argument for an uprising to prevent the descent into digital prison assumes much. First, he assumes like-minded people with ideas antithetical to the descent (sound money, individual rights) will unite and somehow revolt against the leviathon – but using what media, with all the surveillance (and ratcheting-up surveillance controlled by AI)?

Also, not all the people who oppose socialism agree on what the government should be responsible for. Larry himself stated that the only roles of the government should be the courts and the roads. Roads? Why should the government control the roads?

Then there’s the issue of the military; obviously, there is a need to defend against foreign invaders, but the U.S. military has been the world’s biggest foreign invader possibly in history. Funding is unaccounted for and questioning the military crusades is denounced as “unpatriotic.”

Also, the military selects for people who will unquestioningly follow orders, and reinforces that fundamental requirement among its rank and file constantly with “psychological conditioning.” Basic Training weeds out those who will refuse to carry out orders they find immoral or even mildly objectionable, and “conditions” them to carry out any atrocity that is ordered from the top.

What was that experiment where normal people were convinced to apply increasingly dangerous electric shocks to victims even when they believed the shocks would be fatal? This military, which is controlled by the same people that print the currency to pay them, could quickly and effectively be turned against any nascent revolution.

The complicit media would be sure to keep a lid on it, too, so it wouldn’t make national news and social media would be censored by AI. Or, the media would spin it as a domestic terrorism event that had to be stopped to prevent wide-spread destruction.

Bottom line: I think Larry underestimates the amount of control we’re already under and overestimates chances to prevent the digital prison ahead. I think most people are so dependent on government right now to provide the basics of life (food, shelter, water) that their choice will be comply or die from starvation/exposure/dehydration. The few who can resist will likely not be ideologically aligned or unable to organize before being discovered and stopped.

I hope I’m wrong, but Larry didn’t address these major problems in his argument and I don’t see a way around them.

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The same media that enabled you to hear him say it.

There are two or three degrees of separation between Chris Martenson, Bret Weinstein, Jimmy Dore, Viva Frei, Mike Maloney, Neil McCoy Ward, Nate Polson (Canadian Prepper), Jim Breuer, Ian Carrol, Tucker Carlson, Peter Schiff, Aaron Day, Clayton and Natali Morris, Casey the Car Guy, Yankee Stacking, Jack Gamble (Nobody Special), Gerald Celente, Johnny Bravo, Vince Lanci, Kim Iverson, George Gammon, Lynette Zang and dozens of others. They are all connected. And they have a combined viewership of millions of people. CNN, ABC news and The New York Times should be so lucky.

If we could get them on a Zoom call and get half to agree on a plan with focused messaging, a grassroots campaign could be launched that would blow people’s minds. I don’t know what that plan is, but I know it’s possible.

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“ It’s almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.”
Will Rogers

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It appears MAGA has been co-opted in much the same way.

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Ol’ proverb,”When the elephants fight, the grass suffers.”

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Spit the black pill out friendo. It’s what “they” want.

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The Crozier book: U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency, delineating the Aldrich Plan (c)1912 is online & for download.

(A LibriVox Free AudioBook)

(two links, since one scan has better pics and the other better text)
The Alfred Owen Crozier pics are classics, text very detailed and numbers a small fraction of current.

Appreciate the comments in this thread. Eyeing at buying some more books for family and friends and an updated Crash Course.

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That seems to be either an incomplete process, or a process still in motion.

I am hooked on the Promethean Action Networks regular updates following the MAGA operation in the White House, and their framing of the situation seems to me to fit reality a bit better than a declaration that MAGA is captured.

If anything, it was captured, but has clearly broken out again in places and destabilized numerous influence operations run against the MAGA coalition that voted Trump into office.

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And we got the Aldrich Plan!

The report bluntly said that such central institution not only could control the “money market,” but also the “public opinion” of the United States, by arbitrarily increasing and decreasing interest rates and inflating and contracting its circulating notes, or currency. This power to increase and decrease the supply or quantity of money and credit, and the interest or price charged for same, is the power of absolute life and death over the 24,392 banks and the business of every individual and corporation in the United States. If carried to extremes it would cause general panic, disaster, bankruptcy and ruin.

The selective extension or retraction of credit is one of the greatest powers one group or person can have over entire nations.

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Progressives are subject to group think - their epistemology is that of herd animals, steered by emotions. Shepherds have moved in and make them go anywhere. So no, they don’t realise anything at all. There’s a significant part of the right that also operates the same way.

Can’t do anything with them unless you want to play shepherd. Reasoning with them is about as impactful as reasoning with your dog.

A friend of mine was with them, but he predicted that ending the lockdowns would be a disaster with deaths everywhere, and then… nothing. None of the others were even slightly concerned about that prediction failure. Now it’s an unbearable itch for him. We may recover some of them, like him. Most not.

Price controls on the value of someone’s labour? Going into an age of robotics? That’s hard core right wing. I wouldn’t do that to the lesser people, but if you want to put in a skill floor and declare those people below it to be fundamentally worthless, then you’re even more brutal than I am! I thought I was pretty far on the brutal, Darwinist side, but wow, I tip my hat!

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My favorite line…"you know, you have PhD in this shit":rofl:
Myself I’m butt shit dumb in regards of finances and economy etc but boy… After 4 years of following guys like Chris I feel like PhD among my peers…:person_facepalming:

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