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One could argue that many of the economic upheavals of the last fifty years were exacerbated by the federal government’s reliance on manipulation of the money supply to mitigate or obscure the consequences of lousy policies.

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Inflation is not rising. The inflation mechanism is an artificial manipulation of the market to devalue your worth as an individual and destroy your earnings generated in the previous economic cycle.

In simple terms: Why would the value of all services, products and labor be lower this year than it was last year?

It is the same time expenditure, the same volume of raw materials, the same amount of electricity and fuels, the same distribution channels, and the same retail procedures. All is the same. Manipulators skew the market to force you to pay more for the same work they have done this year as last year. Their net worth is increasing, your buying capacity (= survival) is going down. The official name for the game: capitalism.

Logically thinking, your earnings should increase with each year, because you are more experienced and more valuable for the economy. Big business companies do the same thing as 10 years ago, reduce their costs every step, trade in the artificial stock exchange, and earn more and more every day. Doing nothing.

The gap between you and them is always increasing. It is not inflation rising. It is a different name for the hidden transfer of money from your pocket to those who are a bit higher in the hierarchy. They raise inflation.

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Inflation and deflation are related to the value of currencies, not the economic activities that rely upon them as a medium of exchange. Governments manipulate currency supplies to mitigate the economic impact of their policy decisions. Any time you see inflation or deflation, look to the preceding economic policy decisions for the cause. Nine times out of ten, you can blame it on wrong headed government policies.

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Who said that nothing in politics is by accident?

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It’s discouraging to see that consumer prices are likely to rise, but you’ve got the data. All the MSM have is ‘spin’.

Honestly, those news outlets should use a commercial washing machine whirling around as their logo.

You’ve got a pretty good track record. Take the issue of China, for example. Every day I see headlines about China’s deflation, banking woes, Evergrande’s coming liquidation, etc. But I heard all the predictions from YOU first - days, weeks, even months ahead of other news sources. You are sharp!

Have you followed Ed Dowd’s ‘died suddenly’ accounts? He was a Wall Street hedge fund analyst who crunched data in order to discern trends before others. It occurs to me that you have the same kind of genius. Not that you’d maybe want to move to Manhattan and take on that kind of frenzied life, but I encourage you to ponder creatively where you could apply your talents. Making policy at a think tank, perhaps, or doing research for candidates during this election year. You have greatness in you, Peter, and you’re a long way from being done with this world.

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