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| #Post#: 240-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: July 10, 2020, 8:04 pm | |
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| Understanding the Problem � Debt-Based Fiat Currency | |
| [quote]Amidst the endless, brain-numbing talk between the | |
| parties of the centre-left and those centre-right in any given | |
| democratic country on the issues of privatisation, �leasing� | |
| (which is just privatisation in disguise), taxes and interest | |
| rates lies the inescapable existence of money. It is this object | |
| to which virtually every single politician will base their | |
| policies and arguments around as opposed to at � those who have | |
| historically chosen the latter approach turn out like John F. | |
| Kennedy or Gough Whitlam, assassinated or prematurely | |
| disenfranchised. None who are �representatives� in office dare | |
| actually question this God-like tool of social power directly | |
| when discussing the issues of poverty, the wealth gap or cuts to | |
| public funding; or more specifically, the issues that money � | |
| under its present mode of usage � cause. | |
| The current central banking practice that encompasses virtually | |
| all democratic nations of the world � and this includes | |
| Australia � is based on the �concept� (as if you could really | |
| call something that is purposely flawed a concept, but for lack | |
| of a better word �) of debt-based fiat currency. The official | |
| name of this concept is immediately off-setting to perhaps | |
| nine-out-of-ten people who hear it � no one really wants to know | |
| why �debt� and �currency� are appearing together in a term that | |
| is meant to imply wealth generation. Here this article will | |
| explain the debt-based fiat currency monetary model for what it | |
| really is � a government-approved, privatised, self-generating | |
| debt system. This exceptionally oppressive financial paradigm is | |
| responsible for every war which has involved the United States | |
| (Banks) of America in the last one hundred years (and counting) | |
| and is at the core root of why there is more slavery, social | |
| injustice, moral depravity, political corruption and poverty in | |
| the world today than ever before in the history of mankind. | |
| The system is simple to understand. The central (or reserve) | |
| bank of any democratic nation in the world today is a joint | |
| private-government trust. In fact, the only role the government | |
| plays is the official recognition of that said entity (e.g. the | |
| Reserve Bank of Australia) as the legal provider of the money | |
| supply. The actual running central bank is left solely to the | |
| initiative of the private aspect of the partnership. And here is | |
| how they do it � | |
| The government decides that it needs to increase the national | |
| money pool. In doing this, they (the government) establish a | |
| contract with the central bank whereby treasury bonds | |
| (meaningless pieces of paper) valued at �x� amount are traded | |
| with the central bank in exchange for an �x� amount of legal | |
| tender (money). However, the government bonds are only an | |
| artificial means of goodwill, the central bank actually loans | |
| the money to the government with interest attached � the | |
| government is obliged by contract to pay back the money borrowed | |
| plus interest. Since the central bank is the only source of more | |
| money, the government can never generate the interest it needs | |
| to pay without another loan from central bank, which again, | |
| comes with more interest. Hence, the government and, by | |
| extension, the nation as a whole, is constantly in debt to the | |
| central bank (which if you haven�t figured out by now, is really | |
| just a private loan sharking enterprise encompassing | |
| international dimensions). Even if a said government was to tax | |
| its citizens 100 per cent of their income, they still would not | |
| be able to pay off the debt they owe to the central bank � | |
| simply because the interest does not exist until the latter | |
| prints an additional batch of money with more new interest | |
| attached. This is how �debt� and �currency� go hand-in-hand | |
| regarding the term �debt-based fiat currency�.[/quote] | |
| https://federsgenius.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/understanding-the-problem-debt-ba… | |
| #Post#: 241-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: July 10, 2020, 8:07 pm | |
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| The Solution � Labour-based Currency | |
| [quote]Having established the fundamental problem of our current | |
| economic system, we will now present the essential principles of | |
| a viable solution � labour-based currency � and how this system | |
| would be practically be implemented. If you have not read our | |
| original essay, and don�t understand the problem of debt-based | |
| finance, then I recommend you first read Part 1 � Understanding | |
| the Problem. | |
| Under a labour-backed fiat currency model, the money supply is | |
| expanded via the government�s expenditures for the maintenance | |
| and developing of a particular public projects, be it in the | |
| form of social and emergency services (e.g. public | |
| transportation, garbage disposal, welfare, ambulances, fire | |
| control, police and all other typical government sector related | |
| jobs) or state infrastructure (e.g. roads, energy plants, water | |
| sanitation, government housing). What should be made clear is | |
| that under a labour-backed currency production model all banking | |
| � in both central and commercial capacities � is managed wholly | |
| by the state as a non-profit organisation for the safeguarding | |
| of the individual citizen�s monetary reserves, the provision of | |
| interest-free loans and the regulation of the national money | |
| supply. All costs regarding a given government-funded project | |
| are calculated � namely essential building materials and | |
| required human labour � and prices for the purchasing of needed | |
| materials and workers are rationalised by the government (i.e. | |
| the state dictates the value of certain materials, goods and | |
| labour). The entire focus of the labour-backed fiscal model is | |
| to base a given currency, unique to a single nation, on the | |
| ability of the central government of that one nation to mobilise | |
| its manpower and material resources for the production and | |
| maintenance of essential infrastructures and services. | |
| All payments by the government to workers and collaborating | |
| private enterprises (e.g. some materials [wood, concrete, wire, | |
| etc �] to build infrastructure may need to be acquired from a | |
| private source, which is fine) is made in the form of a receipt | |
| that can be cashed in at the state-run national bank. What | |
| should be remembered from all this is that the money supply can | |
| only be expanded at the behest of the government�s ability to | |
| provide jobs to those who do not own a business or work within | |
| the private sector. The private sector will only ever be able to | |
| utilise money that the public sector produced. Where private | |
| enterprise fails to generate jobs, the government takes over. | |
| This guarantees that a significant degree of a nation�s labour | |
| pool remains in government hands for the maintenance of public | |
| welfare and not for achieving the private interests of a | |
| wealth-laden elite. A currency bound to this system also becomes | |
| inflation-proof. | |
| Regarding private enterprise in and on its own, the state still | |
| plays a regulating role by encouraging more business to thrive | |
| in areas where the generation of privately produced essential | |
| goods and services (e.g. foodstuffs, clothing and hair salons) | |
| is deemed to be insufficient and by discouraging business in | |
| areas where there is deemed to be a surplus of unessential goods | |
| and services (e.g. makeup, perfume, iPhones and entertainment | |
| television). This prevents private enterprise from hijacking | |
| government-standardised prices by means of either purposely | |
| holding back on the production of certain essential goods and | |
| services to force a rise in value or by fabricating over-demand | |
| (namely through advertisement) for the selling of surplus | |
| numbers of unessential goods. | |
| Since all government services to a nation are monetarily | |
| compensated by the government�s own means (i.e. the state | |
| produces the money it needs to spend), income tax becomes | |
| irrelevant, even for those working in the private sector. Since | |
| the government also regulates private enterprises enough insofar | |
| as how much they can produce and limiting them to a single facet | |
| of goods or services production, company tax also becomes | |
| unnecessary as a means to prevent unchecked expansionist urges | |
| (as if company tax ever served to cap aggressive business | |
| practices and wealth hoarding in the first place). | |
| Under a labour-backed currency model, the government does not | |
| own the economy; rather the government directs the economy. | |
| Nonetheless certain key services for the maintenance of a modern | |
| state must never be privatised in order to prevent the private | |
| sector from eroding state authority over a population. This | |
| includes essential services such as water sanitation, media, | |
| postal delivery, electricity, public transportation, disaster | |
| relief, armaments production, both reserve and commercial | |
| banking, security and healthcare. | |
| Accepting the reality that some nations lack the raw materials | |
| and means for producing certain finished goods to become truly | |
| self-sufficient, it becomes obvious that international trade is | |
| still necessary. The solution to minimise exploitation during | |
| such an exchange is to enforce � although never through an | |
| international body � that trade between nations be conducted in | |
| a fashion whereby the essential goods and/or resources of one | |
| nation are exchanged only for the essential goods and/or | |
| resources of another nation on terms reached by both trading | |
| parties. Here, exploitation by one nation against another is | |
| still, technically, possible, however never to the degree that | |
| the international trade of a given �global� currency by one | |
| nation (as if people can eat or build houses out of a foreign | |
| currency) in exchange for base goods or resources of another | |
| nation allows for. Finally, labour must never be exported or | |
| imported in order to prevent private corporate interests from | |
| neglecting the available labour pool of their home nation in | |
| pursuit of greater profit. | |
| Because money creation is relevant to government efficiency in | |
| hiring the citizens of a nation to play a pivotal role in | |
| maintaining and building-up the existence of their state, a | |
| given currency based on this model is freed from the hostile | |
| control of international finance which insists that the currency | |
| of one (x) nation is inferior to currency of another (y) nation | |
| � either because X has less gold reserves (as if people can eat | |
| or build houses out of gold) or simply because an established | |
| power group simply says that X�s money is of less value (this | |
| representing the so-called �modern� system of �floating� | |
| currencies) � and that the former is destined to be economically | |
| exploited by the latter. It should be noted that the existence | |
| of metal-based (historical) and debt-based (current) currencies | |
| in the Western civilisational tradition have only served to | |
| demonstrate how selfishly-orientated international banking | |
| interests (and the multi-national, multi-faceted corporations | |
| that collude with these interests) can hold entire populations | |
| hostage in what has become an inherently rigged, global | |
| resource-grabbing game.[/quote] | |
| https://federsgenius.wordpress.com/ | |
| #Post#: 1576-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: October 16, 2020, 12:54 pm | |
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| No One Understands Money, and It's Becoming a $14 Trillion | |
| Problem | |
| [quote]Financial literacy may have been your least favorite High | |
| School class, but here is why it�s so important.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdTM26i9bY | |
| Most people do not understand money in this Jewish capitalist | |
| system and it was intentionally designed that way. | |
| Lack of understanding the problem is not the real issue, the | |
| system is. | |
| Reminder: | |
| [quote]In the 20th century, Rothschild developed into a | |
| pre-eminent global organisation, which enhanced its ability to | |
| secure key advisory roles in some of the most important, complex | |
| and recognizable mergers and acquisitions. In the 1980s, | |
| Rothschild took a leading role in the international phenomenon | |
| of privatization. The company was involved from the beginning | |
| and developed a pioneering role which spread out to more than | |
| thirty countries worldwide. In recent years, Rothschild advised | |
| on nearly a thousand completed mergers and acquisitions with a | |
| cumulative value in excess of US$1 trillion. Rothschild also | |
| advised on some of the largest and most high-profile corporate | |
| restructurings around the world.[16] | |
| The price of gold was fixed for years, twice daily at 10:30 am | |
| and 3:00 pm, in a small room at Rothschild's New Court | |
| headquarters on St Swithin's Lane.[17] The world's main bullion | |
| houses: Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Scotia-Mocatta and Soci�t� G�n�rale | |
| used the agreed rate as a price benchmark for gold products and | |
| derivatives in the world's markets. The chairperson, | |
| traditionally appointed by the Rothschild bank, sat in the | |
| center, although the bank itself has largely withdrawn from | |
| trading. The five members of the London Bullion Association: | |
| Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, Scotiabank, HSBC and Soci�t� | |
| G�n�rale, now conduct their twice-daily meetings over the | |
| telephone. The meetings were a tradition as great as the ringing | |
| of the bell at the New York Stock Exchange until 2004.[18] | |
| [/quote] | |
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_%26_Co | |
| Another reminder: | |
| https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M_GbNeUHwSA/UL4GW88Nc7I/AAAAAAAAZNo/tsZ4BcIFpBE/s160… | |
| http://aryanism.net/wp-content/uploads/anthro.png | |
| [quote]From the deluge is born a new world, while the Pharisees | |
| whine about their miserable pennies! The liberation of humanity | |
| from the curse of gold stands before us! � Dietrich | |
| Eckart[/quote] | |
| [quote]The basis of Jewish commercial policy is to make matters | |
| incomprehensible for a normal brain. � Adolf Hitler[/quote] | |
| To this day, how many people on this planet can accurately | |
| describe what a derivative is, even though they caused the 2008 | |
| financial crash? | |
| #Post#: 1611-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Africa lost $836bn from 'illicit capital flight' from 2000-2015 | |
| By: guest5 Date: October 18, 2020, 2:19 pm | |
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| Africa lost $836bn from 'illicit capital flight' from 2000-2015 | |
| [quote]A new report from the United Nations says the continent | |
| would be debt free if money hadn't left illegally. Much of the | |
| loss is through corruption, tax evasion and mis-invoicing of | |
| exports such as gold. The UN says the problem is robbing the | |
| continent and its people of their future. But what can be done | |
| to stop these practices?[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nhDphl5HzA | |
| Colonial Era Map of Africa: | |
| http://aryanism.net/wp-content/uploads/Colonial-Africa.jpg | |
| #Post#: 1828-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: October 28, 2020, 1:18 am | |
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| The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke Is Now Officially Broke | |
| [quote]Charles �Chuck� Feeney, 89, who cofounded airport | |
| retailer Duty Free Shoppers with Robert Miller in 1960, amassed | |
| billions while living a life of monklike frugality. As a | |
| philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While | |
| Living�spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity | |
| bets instead of funding a foundation upon death. Since you can't | |
| take it with you�why not give it all away, have control of where | |
| it goes and see the results with your own eyes? | |
| Over the last four decades, Feeney has donated more than $8 | |
| billion to charities, universities and foundations worldwide | |
| through his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies. When I | |
| first met him in 2012, he estimated he had set aside about $2 | |
| million for his and his wife's retirement. In other words, he's | |
| given away 375,000% more money than his current net worth. And | |
| he gave it away anonymously. While many wealthy philanthropists | |
| enlist an army of publicists to trumpet their donations, Feeney | |
| went to great lengths to keep his gifts secret. Because of his | |
| clandestine, globe-trotting philanthropy campaign, Forbes called | |
| him the  James Bond of Philanthropy. | |
| On September 14, 2020, Feeney completed his four-decade mission | |
| and signed the documents to shutter the Atlantic Philanthropies. | |
| The ceremony, which happened over Zoom with the Atlantic | |
| Philanthropies� board, included video messages from Bill Gates | |
| and former California Gov. Jerry Brown. Speaker of the House | |
| Nancy Pelosi sent an official letter from the U.S. Congress | |
| thanking Feeney for his work. | |
| At its height, the Atlantic Philanthropies had 300-plus | |
| employees and ten global offices across seven time zones. The | |
| specific closure date was set years ago as part of his long-term | |
| plan to make high-risk, high-impact donations by setting a hard | |
| deadline to give away all his money and close shop. The 2020 | |
| expiration date added urgency and discipline. It gave the | |
| Atlantic Philanthropies the time to document its history, | |
| reflect on wins and losses and create a strategy for other | |
| institutions to follow. As Feeney told me in 2019: �Our giving | |
| is based on the opportunities, not a plan to stay in business | |
| for a long time.�  [/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALt5Jil9JM | |
| #Post#: 1898-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: October 31, 2020, 1:18 am | |
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| Surviving an Unlivable Wage | Full Documentary | |
| [quote]"The restaurant industry has driven a significant amount | |
| of economic growth since the Great Recession, but many | |
| restaurant employees continue to end up hungry due to a | |
| two-tiered wage system that allows tipped workers to be paid as | |
| little as $2.13 an hour. CBSN Originals' Adam Yamaguchi travels | |
| to Indiana to explore the impact of tipping as a primary source | |
| of income for people in one of America�s fastest-growing | |
| workforces.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvNhQ4lYLE | |
| How poor people survive in the USA | DW Documentary | |
| [quote]Homelessness, hunger and shame: poverty is rampant in the | |
| richest country in the world. Over 40 million people in the | |
| United States live below the poverty line, twice as many as it | |
| was fifty years ago. It can happen very quickly. | |
| Many people in the United States fall through the social safety | |
| net. In the structurally weak mining region of the Appalachians, | |
| it has become almost normal for people to go shopping with food | |
| stamps. And those who lose their home often have no choice but | |
| to live in a car. There are so many homeless people in Los | |
| Angeles that relief organizations have started to build small | |
| wooden huts to provide them with a roof over their heads. The | |
| number of homeless children has also risen dramatically, | |
| reaching 1.5 million, three times more than during the Great | |
| Depression the 1930s. A documentary about the fate of the poor | |
| in the United States today.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDkALRz5Rk | |
| #Post#: 2473-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: November 25, 2020, 3:54 pm | |
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| The stock market is not the economy | |
| [quote]But as we�ve said before and we�ll surely say again: The | |
| stock market is not the economy. | |
| �The stock market is a market where stocks, a type of investment | |
| that represents ownership in a company are traded,� said Jessica | |
| Schieder, a federal tax policy fellow at the Institute on | |
| Taxation and Economic Policy. | |
| �The stock market is where people make bets on what�s going to | |
| happen in the economy.� [/quote] | |
| https://www.marketplace.org/2019/09/30/the-stock-market-is-not-the-economy/ | |
| Repeat After Me: The Markets Are Not the Economy | |
| [quote]The two have been intertwined in the American psyche | |
| since the 1929 stock crash and the onset of the Great | |
| Depression. But stocks are not a reliable gauge of overall | |
| economic health.[/quote] | |
| [quote]The stock market looks increasingly divorced from | |
| economic reality. | |
| The United States is on the brink of the worst economic collapse | |
| since the Hoover administration. Corporate profits have | |
| crumpled. More than a million Americans have contracted the | |
| coronavirus, and hundreds are dying each day. There is no | |
| turnaround in sight. | |
| Yet stocks keep climbing. Even as 20.5 million people lost their | |
| jobs in April, the S&P 500 stock index logged its best month in | |
| 33 years. After a few weeks of wild swings, the market is down a | |
| mere 9.3 percent this year and 13.5 percent from its peak � what | |
| most investors would consider a correction. On Friday, after the | |
| government released the staggering unemployment figures, the S&P | |
| 500 closed up 1.7 percent.[/quote] | |
| https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/stock-market-economy-coronavirus.ht… | |
| #Post#: 2615-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Everything You Know About Global Order Is Wrong | |
| By: guest5 Date: December 3, 2020, 12:40 am | |
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| Everything You Know About Global Order Is Wrong | |
| [quote]If Western elites understood how the postwar liberal | |
| system was created, they�d think twice about asking for its | |
| renewal.[/quote] | |
| [quote]Klaus Schwab, impresario of the World Economic Forum, | |
| released a manifesto in the run-up to 2019's annual meeting at | |
| Davos, Switzerland, in which he called for a contemporary | |
| equivalent to the postwar conferences that established the | |
| liberal international order. �After the Second World War, | |
| leaders from across the globe came together to design a new set | |
| of institutional structures to enable the post-war world to | |
| collaborate towards building a shared future,� he wrote. �The | |
| world has changed, and as a matter of urgency, we must undertake | |
| this process again.� Schwab went on to call for a new moment of | |
| collective design for globalization�s alleged fourth iteration | |
| (creatively labeled Globalization 4.0). | |
| Schwab is not the first to make this kind of appeal. Since the | |
| financial crisis, there have been repeated calls for a �new | |
| Bretton Woods��the conference in 1944 at which, in Schwab�s | |
| words, �leaders from across the globe came together to design� a | |
| financial system for the postwar era, establishing the | |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank in the | |
| process. It was the moment at which U.S. hegemony proved its | |
| most comprehensive and enlightened by empowering | |
| economist-statesmen, foremost among them John Maynard Keynes, to | |
| lead the world out of the postwar ruins and the preceding | |
| decades of crisis. Under Washington�s wise leadership, even | |
| rancorous Europe moved toward peaceful and prosperous | |
| integration. | |
| This is a story with wide support in places like Davos. It�s | |
| also one that deserves far more scrutiny. Its history of the | |
| founding of the postwar order is wrong; more important, its | |
| implicit theory about how international order emerges�through a | |
| collective design effort by world leaders coming together to | |
| reconcile their interests�is fundamentally mistaken. What | |
| history actually suggests is that order tends to emerge not from | |
| cooperation and deliberation but from a cruder calculus of power | |
| and material constraints. | |
| Bretton Woods may have been a conference of experts and | |
| officials, but it was first and foremost a gathering of a | |
| wartime alliance engaged in the massive mobilization effort of | |
| total war. The conference met in July 1944 in the weeks | |
| following D-Day and the final Soviet breakthrough on the Eastern | |
| Front. As a wartime rather than a postwar meeting, disagreements | |
| were minimized. Though the conference was about the future order | |
| of the international economy and though the aim of the talks was | |
| to link national economies back together, the building blocks | |
| were centralized, state-controlled war economies. The Bretton | |
| Woods negotiators were government officials, not businessmen or | |
| bankers. As they had done since the collapse of the global | |
| financial system in the early 1930s, central bankers played | |
| second fiddle to treasury officials. The Americans who were | |
| bankrolling the Allied war effort called the shots. | |
| The basic monetary vision of Bretton Woods was to create order | |
| by establishing fully convertible currencies at fixed exchange | |
| rates, with the dollar pegged to gold. But the tough conditions | |
| of the Bretton Woods monetary architecture set by the United | |
| States proved far too demanding for war-weakened European | |
| economies. When Britain, the least damaged economy in Europe, | |
| tried to implement free convertibility of pounds into dollars, | |
| its attempt collapsed at the first hurdle in 1947; the social | |
| democratic Labour Party government in London quickly moved to | |
| stop the subsequent drain of precious dollars by reimposing | |
| exchange controls and tightening import quotas. Meanwhile, the | |
| grand design for a free trade order embodied by the Havana | |
| Charter and the International Trade Organization fell afoul of | |
| the U.S. Congress and was thus stopped in its tracks. The | |
| General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was its cumbersome | |
| and slow-moving replacement. | |
| The talk of a connection between the present and the Bretton | |
| Woods moment is legitimated perhaps above all by the claimed | |
| continuity of the IMF and the World Bank, which were duly set up | |
| in December 1945. But beyond institutional titles, this supposed | |
| continuity is largely false. Within a year of the founding of | |
| its key institutions, almost the entire global agenda of Bretton | |
| Woods was put on ice. Already in 1946 the Soviet Union absented | |
| itself from the formation of the IMF and the World Bank. | |
| With the Cold War paralyzing the U.N. institutions that had | |
| originally been intended to frame Bretton Woods, what emerged | |
| under U.S. hegemony was a far narrower postwar order centered on | |
| the North Atlantic. The Marshall Plan of 1948 was not so much a | |
| complement to Bretton Woods as an acknowledgement of its | |
| failure. For true liberals in both the United States and Europe, | |
| who hankered after the golden age of globalization in the late | |
| 19th century, the resulting Cold War economic order was a | |
| profound disappointment. The U.S. Treasury and the first | |
| generation of neoliberals in Europe fretted against the U.S. | |
| State Department and its interventionist economic tendencies. | |
| Mavericks such as the young Milton Friedman�true advocates of | |
| free markets in the way we take for granted today�demanded a | |
| bonfire of all regulations. They insisted that rather than | |
| exchange rates being fixed, currencies should be allowed to | |
| float with their value defined by competitive markets. In the | |
| 1950s, Friedman could be dismissed as eccentric. | |
| The reality of the liberal order that supposedly came into | |
| existence in the postwar moment was the more or less haphazard | |
| continuation of wartime controls. It would take until 1958 | |
| before the Bretton Woods vision was finally implemented. Even | |
| then it was not a �liberal� order by the standard of the gilded | |
| age of the 19th century or in the sense that Davos understands | |
| it today. International mobility of capital for anything other | |
| than long-term investment was strictly limited. Liberalization | |
| of trade also made slow progress. The gradual abolition of | |
| exchange controls went hand in hand with the lifting of trade | |
| quotas. Only when these more elementary limitations on foreign | |
| trade were removed did tariff negotiations become relevant. | |
| GATT�s lumbering deliberations did not begin making major | |
| inroads until the Kennedy round of the 1960s, 20 years after the | |
| end of the war. And rising global trade was a mixed blessing. | |
| Huge German and Japanese trade surpluses put pressure on the | |
| Bretton Woods exchange rate system. This was compounded in the | |
| 1960s by the connivance of U.S. Treasury and U.K. authorities in | |
| enabling Wall Street to sidestep financial repression and launch | |
| the unregulated eurodollar market, based in bank accounts in | |
| London. | |
| By the late 1960s, barely more than 10 years old, Bretton Woods | |
| was already in terminal trouble. And when confronted with | |
| demands for deflation, U.S. President Richard Nixon reverted to | |
| economic nationalism. Between 1971 and 1973, he unhitched the | |
| dollar from gold and abandoned any effort to defend the exchange | |
| rate, sending the dollar plunging and helping to restore | |
| something closer to trade balance. If our own world has a | |
| historic birthplace, it was not in 1945 but in the early 1970s | |
| with the advent of fiat money and floating exchange rates. The | |
| unpalatable truth is that our world was born not out of wise | |
| collective agreement but out of chaos, unleashed by America�s | |
| unilateral refusal any longer to underwrite the global monetary | |
| order. | |
| As the tensions built up in the 1960s exploded, foreign exchange | |
| instability contributed to a historically unprecedented surge in | |
| inflation across the Western world. We now know that this era of | |
| inflationary instability would be concluded by the market | |
| revolution and what Ben Bernanke dubbed the �great moderation.� | |
| But once again hindsight should not blind us to the depth of the | |
| crisis and uncertainty prevailing at the time. The first | |
| attempts to restore order were not by way of the market | |
| revolution but by the means of corporatism�direct negotiations | |
| among governments, trade unions, and employers with a view of | |
| limiting the vicious spiral of prices and wages. This promised a | |
| direct control of inflation by way of price setting. But its | |
| effect was to stoke an ever-greater politicization of the | |
| economy. With left-wing social theorists diagnosing a crisis of | |
| capitalist democracy, the trilateral commission warned of | |
| democratic ungovernability. | |
| What broke the deadlock was not some inclusive conference of | |
| stakeholders. The stakeholders in the 1970s were obstreperous | |
| trade unions, and that kind of consultation was precisely the | |
| bad habit that the neoliberal revolutionaries set out to break. | |
| The solution, as U.S. Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker�s | |
| recent memoirs make embarrassingly clear, was blunt force | |
| wielded by the Fed. Volcker�s unilateral interest rate hike, the | |
| sharp revaluation of the dollar, deindustrialization, and the | |
| crash of surging unemployment dealt a death blow to organized | |
| labor and tamed inflationary pressure. The Volcker shock | |
| established so-called independent central bankers as the true | |
| arbiters of the new dispensation. | |
| They put paid to what Margaret Thatcher referred to as the | |
| �enemy within.� But the global victory of the liberal order | |
| required a more far-reaching struggle. The world of the market | |
| revolution of the 1980s was still divided between communism and | |
| capitalism, between first, second, and third worlds. The | |
| overcoming of those divisions was a matter of power politics | |
| first and foremost, negotiation second. The United States and | |
| its allies in Europe raised the pressure on the Soviet Union, | |
| and after a period of spectacularly heightened tension, Mikhail | |
| Gorbachev chose to de-escalate, unwittingly precipitating the | |
| union�s collapse. | |
| The truth is that the postwar moment that the Davos crowd truly | |
| hankers after is not that of 1945 but the aftermath of the Cold | |
| War, the moment of Western triumph. It was finally in 1995 that | |
| the Bretton Woods vision of a comprehensive world trade | |
| organization was realized. A sanitized version of this moment | |
| would describe it as a third triumph of enlightened technocracy. | |
| After Bretton Woods and the defeat of inflation, this was the | |
| age of the Washington Consensus. But as in those previous | |
| moments, its underpinnings were power politics: at home the | |
| humbling of organized labor, abroad the collapse of Soviet | |
| challenge and the decision by the Beijing regime to embark on | |
| the incorporation of China into the world economy. | |
| Since 2008, that new order has come under threat from its own | |
| internal dysfunction, oppositional domestic politics, and the | |
| geopolitical power shift engendered by truly widespread | |
| convergent growth. The crisis goes deep. It is not surprising | |
| that there should be calls for a new institutional design. But | |
| we should be careful what we wish for. If history is anything to | |
| go by, that new order will not emerge from an enlightened act of | |
| collective leadership. Ideas and leadership matter. But to think | |
| that they by themselves found international order is to put the | |
| cart before the horse. What will resolve the current tension is | |
| a power grab by a new stakeholder determined to have its way. | |
| And the central question of the current moment is whether the | |
| West is ready for that. If not, we should get comfortable with | |
| the new disorder.[/quote] | |
| https://getpocket.com/explore/item/everything-you-know-about-global-order-is-wr… | |
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Paris_Tuileries_Garde… | |
| Carroll Quigley happens to be an American historian. What is | |
| wrong with these people? Can't look at Hitler's economics, that | |
| would be "anti-Semitism" of course.... ;D | |
| https://www.quotationof.com/images/political-decisions-quotes-3.jpg<br | |
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| #Post#: 2699-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: December 6, 2020, 1:01 pm | |
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| Let's talk about how the stock market isn't the economy.... | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DeGZ_M-yg | |
| #Post#: 2700-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Monetary Wealth | |
| By: guest5 Date: December 6, 2020, 1:06 pm | |
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| Your Guide to the Great Monetary Reset | |
| [quote]Do you know what it means when the Managing Director of | |
| the IMF warns of a "new Bretton Woods moment?" How about when | |
| the head of the BIS revels in the total surveillance power that | |
| digital currencies will afford the central bankers? Well, you're | |
| about to. Don't miss this info-packed edition of The Corbett | |
| Report podcast where James peels back the layers of the great | |
| currency reset onion and uncovers the New World (Monetary) | |
| Order.[/quote] | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGQBR2NOeE | |
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