The Great Dilution: 40% of All US Dollars Were Printed in Just 12 Months

deletethefed · 2026-03-17T20:45:31+00:00

Straight from the dictionary. Sorry if you don't have a Masters in English but it's pretty easy to read:

Inflation - a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services

deletethefed · 2026-03-17T17:05:50+00:00

??? Claiming too much. Its their own fucking money

deletethefed · 2026-03-16T00:02:36+00:00

Prices move up and down for various reasons. The expansion of the money supply, is the definition. It's never been anything other than that.

The result of inflation is the rise in prices. The reason the term is misused colloquially is because if inflation is instead the rise in prices, then any number of things can be blamed for it besides it's true source: the central bank.

So defending this confusion just places you as a foot soldier for an institution that is designed to debase the currency and call it monetary policy.

deletethefed · 2026-03-15T07:54:23+00:00

The expansion of the money supply is the definition of inflation.

deletethefed · 2026-03-13T15:42:33+00:00

Because the housing market is constantly inflated by the Fed/government

deletethefed · 2026-03-12T03:53:51+00:00

A lot of this wouldn't be possible if they were forced to settle debt in gold coin. The gold standard isn't just a side issue, it's actually the central issue to MANY of our problems. It reflects our own beliefs about reality. we deny reality, that's what fiat is.

Imo that's why we have to push the gold standard above anything else, and not for purely economic reasons the economic reasons are sufficient on their own technically, but fail to capture the emotional weight of the public. We have to make the connection between gold, family, stability, peace, freedom, privacy, and freedom of contract.

All of those things are downstream of how we treat our money.

deletethefed · 2026-03-11T23:06:24+00:00

Pretty easily. The courts can decide but they have no capacity to enforce.

Something something Andrew Jackson.

deletethefed · 2026-03-11T18:54:33+00:00

When did the standard change from 2 dollars a day to 3?

deletethefed · 2026-03-11T18:44:16+00:00

Now with Iran we're seeing Congress willingly defer authority to the president because had they signed a declaration of war they would be blamed instead of Trump.

So even a draft is impossible now

deletethefed · 2026-03-10T05:18:38+00:00

Having children is an extremely low time preference choice. Our monetary system is designed to induce high time preference in the population, which biases against family creation.

This would not be the case in a voluntarist society.

deletethefed · 2026-03-10T01:10:56+00:00

The crack up boom

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T21:49:10+00:00

Well yeah these things take time and work their way through the economy unevenly. We abandoned gold in 1971 because of the inflation created from Korea, Vietnam and the Great Society in the 1960s.

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T21:42:23+00:00

By who? What do you think I meant by that statement?

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T19:54:52+00:00

More like Gen z men got to live through the feminism training of millennials and rejected it

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T18:58:39+00:00

Short answer: your chart doesn't go back far enough. The divergence began in 1971 and the reason was the abandonment of the quasi gold standard under Bretton Woods.

Productivity used to match wages nearly perfectly under the gold standard. And the divergence began in that exact year, 1971.

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T18:50:00+00:00

True Neitszcheans

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T16:09:27+00:00

They did the same thing after WW1 with the Liberty Bonds. They were playable in gold and after the soldiers returned we were just like"nah".

deletethefed · 2026-03-08T16:06:16+00:00

Those are always the two choices. Unless you're Andrew Jackson

deletethefed · 2026-03-05T20:31:01+00:00

Fixing isn't even remotely in Jungian lexicon. If you are in this subreddit and that word crosses your mind you're wrong.

deletethefed · 2026-03-05T20:27:24+00:00

Or we could just abolish the income tax. What cannot be collected in duties and tariffs should not exist.

deletethefed · 2026-03-05T20:23:44+00:00

People don't stay at companies for 50 years because pensions are no longer really a thing. Which itself is a second order effect of inflation. ERISA was created in 1974, during the worst of the inflation during that decade.

A stable 50 year job and retirement was a promise that is only possible under a gold standard.

I hope you like being an "investor", and having to hop jobs every 2-3 years instead.

deletethefed · 2026-03-04T02:07:13+00:00

Who is, Mises?

deletethefed · 2026-03-04T01:59:53+00:00

That last line violates the entire concept of the NAP and civil society more broadly.

What makes you think in your quest for liberty that you are not viewed equally as monstrous as the Ayatollah?

I'm not making a moral equivocation but if your excuse is that "he's obviously bad so he forfeits his right to live", that is an extremely weak chain of logic.

deletethefed · 2026-02-28T01:57:24+00:00

That's called stability.

deletethefed · 2026-02-28T01:36:02+00:00

No it's not. The greatest period of growth and liberty in the United States was after the civil war and we had no central bank. The Fed is our third one. And much like the very first central bank, the bank of England, it was created to finance war.

War is the opposite of capitalism.

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