We never stopped working hard; we simply failed to notice the yoke quietly settling on our shoulders. I say we because I include myself. For most of my life, I chalked up rising costs and shrinking savings to bad luck and poor planning, assuming that if people were...
In the 1950s, a single income comfortably supported a large family and a home. By the 1970s, that dream demanded two incomes. In the 1990s, saving was a relic, and heading into the 2000s, survival hinged on credit: mortgaging tomorrow’s work to cover...
Nations holding dollars in their reserves, often to settle international trade, discover they must import inflation as a result. Each new round of Federal Reserve money-printing ripples outward, artificially inflating prices worldwide, destabilizing foreign economies,...
The dollar is neither a “just weight” nor a “just balance.” Dollars, presented as fungible units of exchange, are in fact instruments of deception. The “one dollar equals one dollar” premise is a lie. The value each dollar commands is not equal; dollars are not...
Artificial inflation is not some mild annoyance, akin to a crumb falling from a man’s sandwich; it is an active instrument of exploitation, manipulated by human hands and engineered for extraction. There is a world of difference between stealing someone’s property and...
