Imagine a $45 minimum wage, with full employment, and the same prices as today.
Inflation doesn't just happen, like the weather. We were robbed blind.
Imagine a $45 minimum wage, with full employment, and the same prices as today. Families living on one salary, in single-family homes, with housewives staying home to raise their kids. That was America, before we were robbed blind.
1963: JFK is assassinated.
1964: Millions of silver JFK half dollars are minted.
1965: Silver coins are changed to painted copper. The start of the great robbery.
1968: Silver certificate dollars redeemable in actual physical silver are switched to bogus “federal reserve notes” redeemable in nothing. They are backed only by “the full faint and credit of the U.S. government,” ROTFLMAO. The great robbery expands.
1971: President Nixon closes the gold window when French warships arrive in New York to claim their physical gold and carry it home to France. Hear him for yourself on YouTube.
1971-2025: Budgets are blown sky-high to infinity with the private Federal Reserve printing trillions of federal reserve note “dollars” out of thin air backed by nothing.
Well-connected banks and financial institutions benefit the most by the “Cantillon Effect.” New money creation is actually a wealth transfer from the middle class to the most wealthy and politically connected.
2025: The U.S. federal debt stands at 38 TRILLION dollars, and is growing at 180 BILLION dollars per month. A crash and collapse worse than the 1930s is now inevitable. This is why the prices of gold and silver are soaring. Banks and knowledgeable investors are buying all the physical, delivered gold and silver they can get their hands on. They know what’s coming, even while they assure Joe Sixpack that all is well, so just keep watching sportsball . . . They don’t want to compete in a panic stampede to the lifeboats, not until they are already motoring far away from the Titanic in their own lifeboats, if not megayachts.
Below at the YouTube link is an excellent analysis of gold vs everything else since 1971. There are many powerful insights in it. Most highly recommended.
“They Don’t Want You To Own Gold!” by Parallel Systems, October 8, 2025
That’s all for now. Protect yourself. All paper “assets,” including crypto, can disappear into the ether in a puff of pixel smoke. The great reset to the next monetary system may take weeks or years. During that interim period, your paper dollars and “online” electronic “assets” may be as useless as Confederate dollars and bonds.
Only actual physical gold and silver, in your possession, is going to get you through that period of hard times. A government can print unlimited dollars, but this will not put food on the shelves. See Weimar Germany, or Zimbabwe. And a government declaration of a new emergency Central Bank Digital Currency will also fail to restart broken supply chains.
Yes, of necessity, barter will be the first new economic system to arise, but barter will only serve your most immediate survival needs. Obviously we should all have plenty of firearms, ammunition, long term storage food, an independent water source, etc, and we’ll all be happy to trade among ourselves in the local free markets that will spring up. But eventually, barter reaches a limit and jams up like traffic gridlock.
You can’t pay a dentist with 1/20th of a horse. You can’t pay for a woodstove with hunting dogs if the guy doesn’t want or need hunting dogs. And it will be a major hassle to haul 100s of pounds of your goods to swap markets miles away, just hoping to find mutual trades. And if not, haul all your stuff home. Especially if gasoline and diesel are already difficult or impossible to find. And this is assuming you are not hijacked by robbers while you are going or coming.
Silver coins will be the most practical means of exchange to purchase your weekly food, or a few gallons of gasoline or diesel or propane (if you can find it.) Gold coins will be reserved for larger purchases, such as land, houses, or vehicles. A great website for finding out the melt value of coins at the current spot price is CoinApps.com. That link takes you to the silver coin price conversion page.
Bracken—Out.
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Great post Matt! So simple even the commie left can understand it, but they won't.
Spot on Matt! Spot price-Spot on...hah!
You hit the nail on the head but perhaps we can add to part of the equation in the excellent timeline and result you have laid out. The question of those lucky few might be, "What if I'm a business owner or can grow food to become a business inside the collapsed economy?"
During the Crusades, the small businesspeople who survived the years of thrashing back and forth
in between the massive war battles, did so rarely but they did. This space is too small to give examples but that Gold, Silver and bartering items need a way to safely exchange for products. And then there is the problem of storage of wealth for the businesspeople after the exchanges. Perhaps one could also study how the economy of the Colony of Pennsylvania worked it out, before the King came in and blew it apart by confiscating the Gold and Silver. PA, expanded quite nicely before that with shopkeepers acting as bankers from everything from Goods to Real Estate.
They built their own currency system, backed on Gold and Silver to make loans for expansion of Farms and trades.
Later on as a new nation, the farmers and ranchers, also made their own currency, which, you could get into by way of trade or purchases.
All of those variants are why the new US, added the creation and controlling of "money" to the Constitution. It was no accident.
I know you remember the McDonald's motto of "Feed a family of four for under a dollar." Not more than two years after Nixon stripped the Dollar of its actual backing, in order to pump up the War machine in Vietnam; McDonald's changed their motto. In 1973, it became "Feed a family of Four for under Four dollars." That lasted a couple of years and then inflation passed it by in the late 70's under the Carter expansion, so Mac's just dropped it to, "McDonald's is your kind of place." Remember those days Matt?
I think your graphic with the Home description is also spot on. The earth will become void of old people and children by the end of that proposed timeline, and that's exactly what the rulers of this world want and it is all steeped in Sociology, which for those who don't know, was built by Karl Marx. Yep and that's how people like John Dewey showed up with it to destroy our nation through the destruction of education. So, get educated! To survive and thrive is your victory now, no matter who comes for you in the future.
Again, excellent work Matt!
Yours in liberty,
Vince Agnelli