Exposing Operation Choke Point 2.0 and Government's Financial Weaponization Tactics

And you know, I talk about this each and every week, and we talked about the signposts that are happening, so we can see what's happening, we can understand what we need to be doing to protect ourselves and manage ourselves through this. And some of these signposts that we see are more subtle, right, And it's like lots of people ask me, you know on social media, which, by the way, if you're not following on social media, should check it out. It's just at one Mark Moss. It's the number one

Mark Moss. But you know, a post of thing talking about the pendulum swinging back and how you know globalization is ending, and people like Mark, what are you talking about? I don't see that happening at all. It seems like the world's getting more centralized. So a lot of these signs are more subtle. But what we've seen going on this last week, maybe last two weeks, is really accelerating. It's really accelerating a lot. And so I'm gonna talk

about that. We're gonna talk about the death of the dollar. We're gonna talk about the death of the dollar. Is it greatly exaggerated? Is it really happening right now? We're gonna talk about that. I'm gonna go and do some historical context so you can really understand how this works, why this works. Then we're gonna talk about actually what's been happening in the last two weeks, d dollarization, how

our trading partners training against us. Then we're gonna jump into what's been backing the dollar for the last fifty years and how that is just literally changed right before ever eyes. And then ultimately I want to go down to like what does all this mean? And why do you care? Why should you even pay attention to this? What does it mean to you? What should you be watching and what should you be doing with this information? If anything at all? So I wanna talk about all

of that. We got a big show coming up. I'm gonna have to talk pretty fast year because I've got a lot of ground to cover, So we'll go through this pretty quickly. But like I said, this is a big show and it's a big topic, something that you should be concerned with. Now. I want to go back into a little bit of historical narrative with you for a minute first, And the reason why is because you need to kind of understand this from a first principle's level.

You have to understand this from its most basic concepts. You can learn to build and formulate your own ideas on top of this, all right, And so the first thing you have to understand is that we don't want money. We don't care about money. What we want is the things that money buys us. And ultimately, money is just a way to store our value, to store our labor or energy until such a time that we're ready to

use that. So what we really want is we want a new house, a new car, We want to go out to dinner, want to want vacation, and money is just what allows me to exchange for those things. So I don't care if it's a dollar or a rupee or a wand, or a gold coin or a bitcoin. I don't care about any of that as long as what I'm storing my wealth in will continue to buy

me more goods and service in the future. It's important understand that distinction because as we start talking about the way that the dollar is changing and different currencies that are being used, it's important understand it's only really a medium of exchange. You can also be used as a store of value as well, but we use lots of things to store of value. Now, it's important understand that. Another thing I want to talk about, just real quick, is a little bit of a history lessons. You can

understand the way this works. So it's all of economics is actually super simple, and I know that a lot of people talk about it make it a complex I do as well, because it is a complex topic, but at the same time it's very simple. Economics always works off of the law of scarcity, the supply and demand. So if there were if there's more demand then there is supply, the price goes up, and the vice versa

is also true. So for example, if there were five houses for sale but only one buyer, the price of those homes would have to come down because those home sellers are competing for the one buyer. If the opposite were true, if there were five buyers but only one house for sale, the price of the home would go up as those five buyers would now compete for the one single house supply and demands. So the reason why it's important understand that is because as the supply of

money increases, which is actually the definition of inflation. If you think about inflation, if I was going to inflate a balloon, I'm increasing the volume of air. So if you inflate the money, you're increasing the volume, You're increasing the amount of money. And the problem is is as you create more money, that new larger supply money is trying to compete or chase the same amount of goods. So more demand than there are supply, the price of

goods goes up. Obviously, now it's important to understand that so you can understand in context what's exactly happening in the world today with the supply of money, but more importantly, with the supply or i should say, the prices of everything. And let's go back into a little bit of historical narrative, so you can understand this real quick. So if you think back to the stories of the of the Roman Empire, the greatest empire, the greatest country in history of the world,

the world's ever known. It covered the entire known world at the time. The problem is is as it continue to expand that empire, it became very expensive sound familiar. And as they continue to expand and to build and gain new territory, they had to protect that new territories. They had to build outposts, they had to put troops out there to defend that. And now they had all these people that they took over, so they had to give them food and all these things. It became very,

very expensive to do that. The problem is is that at the time silver was money. Their silver coin was money, and they needed more money to afford to expand the empire to me and to hang on and maintain the empire that they had. And so how do they get more money. They couldn't just go get a bunch more silver out of the ground. So what they did is they had this great idea, what we'll do is we'll

just make our coin. Instead of one hundred percents over, we'll make it ninety percents over and by doing that, we can increase the amount of money we have by ten percent. And so they did, and that worked pretty good. So let's do it again, and let's make it eighty percents over, and then seventy percents over, and then fifty percent over, and then twenty percent over. Over two hundred years, they debased the currency by ninety percent. That allowed their

money supplied to increase. But the problem is it led to massive price inflation, and eventually their currency was worthless and the Roman Empire fell apart. You know the story, right, Roman empires around anymore. And that's why. Now what it took the Roman Empire two hundred years to do, the United States has managed to do that in only ninety years. Say hold my beer, right, we'll see what we can

do there. Now, I want to bring your attention back to one of the historical historical story that's kind of recently kind of come back up, and I was reading about it, which is the early days of the United States in a very similar type of story. In seventeen seventy five, during the you know, during the revolutionary period,

the government needed money in a war. You need money typically sounds sounds about right, okay, So in seventeen seventy five, Continental Congress at the time issue two million dollars in paper money to be created. By the end of seventeen seventy six, one year later, twenty five million was in circulation from two to twenty five. But what that did is then that money, that paper money, which used to be redeemable one for one for the silver coins, was

now at a thirty percent discount relative to silver. So because they went from two million to twenty five million in circulation, they inflated the money supply. Now it bought them thirty percent less silver less goods. One year later, by the end of seventy seven, they now had thirty eight million in circulation and now was trading at a

seventy percent discount relative to silver. By the end of seventeen seventy nine, which was now four years later, there was a hundred and ninety two million in circulation, and now the one dollar in paper money was worth only about one cents of silver. Now, all this money creation made it worth less money, just like their own empire

and just like we're today now. Was important to love the thing at one point, said George Washington, who was the commander of the Continent Army remarked that a wagon load of money wouldn't buy a wagon load of provisions anymore, And in October of seventeen seventy nine, just four years later, Continental Congress requested no more money from the States. They didn't want the money that they had created. Now, what they wanted was actual supplies such as corn, such as wheat,

such as hey and oats. So they inflated the money supply so fast and so big that it wasn't worth anything. It wouldn't buy them the goods and services they want anymore. And it got to the point where four years later the government itself, Continental Congress said, no more money. We don't want money from the States. We want the actual supplies.

Does that sound familiar. That's exactly where we're in. We're seeing the United States dollar follow the exact same path as its predecessor of the Continental dollar, and the exact same path that the Roman inn Aias silver coin had. Print a bunch of money, it continues to buy you less and less and less good services until nobody wants is anymore. And that's exactly the path that we're in. If you're just tuning and listen to the Mark mo Show.

I'm gonna take a very quick break. We're gonna come back to talk about the death of the dollar, what happened with the oil, and so much more. I'll be back with all that a minute. Don't go away, I'll be were back. All right, Welcome back. If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Mark Moa Show. We're talking about the death of the US dollar. Greatly exaggerated. What's going on with US dollar now? It's been all over the news. You've been seeing on CNN, You've seen

it on Fox, You're seen it everywhere. The dollars days are over, everyone starts stopping to use the dollar. And there's a lot of truth to that, and then maybe a lot of it might be over exaggerated, and there might be a lot of fiction in that. And so I want to bring some fact back to this so you can kind of understand this week, I should say I saw a CNN do a video about it. I saw Tucker Carlson do a video on it. And while it certainly makes for good media, it's a little bit overhyped.

Talk about this now, what is actually happening? Well, What is actually happening is the dollar is being dropped all around the world. And the reason why is back to what we talked about in the first segment, is when you continue to print more dollars, they buy you less and less in goods and services. Also, what really, in my opinion, were not my opinion. I believe this is fact. What really exaggerated this was not just that the dollar is buying less goods and services in the future. The

dollar has been weaponized against these countries. And so when the US seized Russia's bank account, when the whole world saw the Canadians bank accounts get seized because they donated twenty five dollars to go fund Me. But more importantly, when Russia had their bank account seas, the whole world realized, shoot, there's no rule of law anymore. There's no such thing as like due process anymore. And what I think is

my property, my money, isn't. As a matter of fact, the government can just take it from any time they want. And if it can happen to Russia, which is one of three global superpowers with nuclear webs, if it can happen to them, it can happen to anybody. It can certainly happened to meet in any other nation will as well. So two things. One, the rapid increase of money, supply of dollars means it's buying less and less and good services,

so they don't want to hold it. But second of all, they don't want to hold it because they knew it could just be seized at any given time. And so the world has already been on a path of what's called de dollarization. So China really announced this back in twenty thirteen. Russia has been de dollarizing. China's been de dollarizing knowing that this day was going to come. In my opinion, now when it happened to Russia, China took extra measures to really start to speed up de dollarization.

But what's been all over the news headlines in the last week or two is that the rest of the world is all following suit. Now, as a matter of fact, it's like the world is dropping the dollar like a bad habit. Now there's been news headlines everywhere the bricks nations, which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. But now there's a whole other group of nations that are joining in the bricks nations, they're all going to start

a new currency to replace the dollar potentially. We see that China and Russia are working on an alternative payment system, an alternative to Swift. So if you don't know what Swift is, I'm sure you do. If you if you ever sent a wire transfer, you know Swift like a Swift coade and Swift is the network, the US dollar payment network that allows you to send dollars anywhere in the world. And so if you want to send money anywhere in the world, just to use a Swift system.

But if the US can control that and block you out, they need to build a new alternative. So China, Russi are doing that. We saw that Malaysia and India are now doing trade outside the dollar, and they're doing trade where it's where it's actually settled in their own currencies, not the dollar at all. We're seeing now in Russia the most traded currency in Russia now is the Chinese yuan, which again they were kicked out of the dollars, so

they really had no choice. We saw Brazil and China are now settling their trade in yuan, not dollars, and so this is a big deal. Now, this is the death of a thousand cuts, if you will. These are all little things that are happening that are just ultimately speeding us down this path where the dollar just loses all of its power. Now, as this is rapidly happening, like I said, we're seeing the rise of these bricks nations.

It's important to understand that kind of back what I said in the first segment is that remember, we don't want money. What we want is the things that money buys us. And what are the things that we need money to buy us? Well, we need the most important things in life if we want to stay alive, which is food and energy. We need food and energy, right, So the bricks nations produce the things that we actually need. They produce food and energy. Russia, which is the r

and bricks, is the world's number one exporter. I believe Brazil is the second largest exporter, or maybe just the largest exporter in this hemisphere. And they export actual goods and services, actual goods, I should say, so. They produce food like wheat and corn. They produce metals like nickel and lithium, They produce fertilizer to grow the food. They produce real things, energy, like oil and natural gas, and they ship this to the rest of the world. What

does the US export? Us exports dollars. And as long as those dollars have been in demand, it's worked out really well. But as these nations are d dollarizing, the demand for the dollar is falling very fast. Now what else does the US export? Will the US exports financial services? So we have the largest financial markets in the world.

So our traders in the US are trading complex derivative contracts. Okay, does India or Iran or Malaisia do they care about our derivatives contract No, they want natural gas, they want oil. What else does the US export? Will we export? Services? Like social media? We have the Facebook stocks, the Apple, Netflix, Google, and actually Putin called us out on that as we try, as I should say not we, as the US government, try to punish Russia and said, you know, we're going

to crush your bank acouts, et cetera. Russia's fine because they're continuing to produce the goods and services that the world wants. And Putin called called out the United States. He said, what are you guys going to do? Live off of each your social media stocks? Like that's what we have, that's what we produce. But the bricks are

all trading in other currencies. They're trading in their own Now it's important to understand that while the US is definitely losing trust, and not not just because they're printing more dollars, but because they seize Russia's bank account, these nations don't trust China either. They probably even as even as much trust has been damaged with the US dollar, there's probably still more trusted in the US dollar than

there is in China. And none of these countries, the bricks, this coalition that they formed, none of them trust anybody. So what they're willing to do is they're all wanting to trade in their own current sees. So we saw this week India ditches the US dollar to trade in rupees for example. We see that China and Malaysia are now discussing a new fund called Asian Monetary Fund to reduce dependence on the US dollar. We saw China and Brazil recently struck a deal to ditch the US dollar

in favor of their own currencies. Now this is a pretty big deal because Russia, as I'm sorry Brazil, has been one of the US's you know what we would call friendlies. They're one of the largest commodity exporters in the world. The US needs Brazil as the world continues to decentralize deglobalize. The US needs Brazil needs South America in its orbit. But we've done a lot to destabilize

that relationship. And now here's China and Brazil getting cozy cozy, and now they're decided to do trade in financial transactions, exchanging in Chinese yuan for real, without converting to the dollar. We saw. Kenya in Africa now says that they're going to buy oil using local current see instead of US dollars. Kenyan President William Rudaus signed an agreement with Audi Arabia to buy oil for Kenyan shillings instead of US dollars. Russia is calling on these bricks nations to explore trading

in new currencies. Now, I don't believe they're gonna be able to find a new reserve currency. I don't think that this way it's going to work. I see a decentralized world. So I'm gonna explain to you what that means. What does a decentralized world mean? How do we move forward when one of these none of these nations trust the US, and they don't trust each other. We're gonna

talk about that. We're gonna talk about these thousand cuts, But more importantly, I want to talk about the death blow that just came across this week that's really, really big. And then ultimately I want to explain to you what does all this mean? Why do you even care? Why should you even pay attention to this? What should you be watching? And more importantly, what should you be doing with this information. I'm going to cover all of that.

It's a big show coming up. If you're just tuning in and you're listening to the Mark Moss Show, I gotta take a quick break and be back with more about the dollar and oil and all that's good stuff. I'm back in a second. Don't go away, all right, Welcome back. If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Moss Show. Of course, we always talk about the decentralized revolution. Boy are we talking about that today?

We're talking about how the world is breaking apart the US globals what we call homogeney, the US dollar, the US as a country's global dominance as well as their dominance imposed by the US dollar is falling, and it's falling fast. However, it's not quite as sensational as Tucker Carlson and CNN are trying to make it out to be. It is happening, yes, and it is a big thing to be a pay attention to do, yes, but it's

more like a death by a thousand cuts. So, like I said, all these other countries are starting to do trade outside of the US dollar, but so far it's again it's a slow, slow, slow bleed bleed out. But something really big did happen this week. And this is a big deal for a lot of reasons. So for quick history in the United States, you probably already know this, but just super real fast, just to go through it

up until you know. The US dollar took over the reserve currency status of the world from the pounds sterling. During World War One and two. England printed way too much money to fight their World wars and devalued debased their currency. The US didn't want their currency because it was continue to be devalued, and so the US demanded gold. Over the course of those two wars, the US brought

in more gold than any other nation. At some point, the United States had about two thirds of all the gold in the world was in the US, and so then under nineteen forty four the Breton Woods Agreement, the world agreed that the US dollar would be the reserve currency the world would be backed by gold. So thirty five dollars was dampable before announced gold. Any nation of the world could redeem their dollars for gold whenever they wanted. All right, nineteen seventy one, the world was well, not

just ninety seventy one. Leading up to that, the US kept printing more dollars, sort of like we talked about in the first segment, how the continental dollars. So they printed so many continental dollars, and in this case they printed so many dollars. The nations of the world realized this and they said, look, we don't want yours dollars anymore, and since they're redeemable for gold, we want the gold. And so all these nations were redeeming for gold old,

over and over and over. Finally the US was over there. They probably ran out of gold. The gold suppli has never been audited since then, so we don't know if there's any gold left. But basically these nations were demanding their gold and a nine seventy one President Richard Nixon said enough, I'm closing the gold window. You could no longer redeem any of those dollars for gold anymore. Now that's a pretty big deal. A lot of people haven't really talked about that in depth. It's a big deal

because basically, the US defaulted on its obligations. The world had made an agreement with the United States under Breton Woods Agreement, that they would use dollars, but they could be even for golden time they wanted, and the US just broke that agreement. Now, why would the world continue to use dollars after that happened. Well, it's a good question,

and the answer is they wouldn't. So in nineteen seventy four, a new deal was made with Saudi Arabia to back the dollars with oil what's called it was known as the Petro dollar. Now that's a big deal. The agreement was that basically Saudi Arabia would always price oil in dollars so that there would always be demand for dollars in exchange. The US would always have Saudi Arabia's back, our military would protect them. So they've been our trading partner.

They've been key in keeping the US dollars dominance for the last fifty years, and that's been a big deal, except for President Biden came in on a campaign saying that he was going to put them in their place. He was going to push back on them, he was going to take this thug of a kingdom and check

them and put them in their place. At the same time, as Biden went on this rampage to destroy relations with Saudi Arabia, he also went on a binge to destroy our oil output in the United States, which is pretty weird. You would think if you're going to destroy your relationship with an oil producing nation that we depend on, you would try to increase your oil supply so we could offset the damage that would cause. But of course that's

not what President Biden would do. He would destroy our oil producing nation partner and destroy our own oil economy at the same time. But basically it's a big deal because as this has continued to break down, then we saw, you know, inflation, this is a key piece here. We saw inflation running rampant. Now, inflation in this case being the prices of goods and services were going through the roof. And this is mainly being driven by energy prices going up.

The price of oil and natural gas went through the roof. And when the price of energy goes up, the price of everything goes up because everything requires energy. So what is the US president, President Biden and the Federal Reserve going to do. Well, they need to bring prices back down. So Biden starts releasing oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So again, supply and demand. If the price is too high,

well let's increase the supply now. Instead of increasing the supply like he should have done, which is like, hey, oil producers in the US, produce more oil. That would have been the smart thing. Instead, he said, let's just drain our savings account. It's sort of like, you know, let's say that you lost your job, and instead of just going, hey, I should probably go get another job and produce my own and you know, create wealth, produce

more income, let's just drain our savings account. And that's basically what he did, and so we've been we've been doing that. Of course, Biden, in addition to draining our oil supply, begged the world to produce more oil, begged Saudi Arabia to produce more oil, begged Venezuela to produce more oil. He tried to get a meeting with Saudi Arabia and they didn't want him to come. They denied him, which of course they would after he said all those

mean things about him. Finally they let him come over. And I think this was a very key moment is when President Biden finally went to go meet with there with the King Mohammed Ben Salmon MBS as he's referred to. There's a famous picture. It was a it was an embarrassing picture where basically Biden and MBS are doing a fist pump. Now, you know, a fist bump is maybe something you do with like one of your boys when you see him real quick, and it's kind of like

done in done in jest or in fun. But if you're particularly a man, but anybody and you're gonna do a serious deal, you're gonna do a business, you're gonna shake a hand. And so I think that was kind of the shot heard around the world. And even worse that really seem into this was that then we saw President g from China over there shaking hands. That's the way it's done now. So this has continue to curate

this relationship with Saudi Arabia. And the big thing was is that this week Saudi Arabia came out and said

that they no longer care about the United States. They no longer care what the United States thanks, and Saudi Arabia and the rest of the oil produced nations over there, collectively known as OPEC plus agreed that they are going to slash supply by one point six million barrels a day now as the Biden administration, as the Federal Reserve is on a campaign to crush inflation bring prices down.

They're doing that by crushing demand. If they make you bro by crushing your retirement account and crushing your home, making you lose your job. If they make you broke, then you won't buy as much, you won't order Amazon anymore, you won't go onification. Then your energy supply will be less or demand will be less. And so if they can crush the demand for oil, then they could somehow bring inflation down. But OPEC says, we see what you're doing,

So here's what we're gonna do. You want to crush demand, fine, we'll just shut off supply. See two can play that game, and that's exactly what they did. So OPEC this agreed to cut restriction back by one point six million barrels a day. That's a big deal. Now, of course this starts next month through the end of this year. Of course, that happens right in the middle of summer, when demand for energy goes through the roof. What is that going

to do to inflation for this summer? So while the Fed's trying everything you can to cut inflation, OPEC just chopped them at the knees. Now, the FED can continue to fight inflation by raising rates. But as we've already talked about in other episodes, as they can do to raise rates, they made the FED broke, then they made the US government the Treasury broke, and now they broke the banks. Now we're seeing the banks collapse. So they're

going to keep raising rates to fight off inflation. But as they continue to raise rates, they're going to continue to bankrupt themselves, the treasury and the banks. And they're not going to have any dent in oil because OPEX says work's going to keep cutting supply, then what are we gonna do. It's a pretty big deal. Now, on top of that, Saudi Arabia has now in bed with China. Saudi Arabia now says they're going to adopt economic strategy

without US dependence. They said that they're now going to cut oil production. They're now partnering with China to build Chinese oil refineries. They entered a trade alliance with China, Russia, India, Pakistan and four Central Asian nations to step away from the US dollar. They partnered with India to create an investment bridge, emphasizing greater economic interconnectedness. I mean, this is

a really big deal. Now, if you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Markmas Show, we're talking about the death of the dollar. We're talking about the death of the petro dollar. And I want to talk about, now, what does all this mean to you? What should you be watching? What should be doing about this? Because you gotta do something. If you just sit back sitting in your hand, it's not gonna work out well for you. So I'm gonna be back, I take a quick break,

I'm wanna come back. I'm gonna tell you that what should be watching? What should you be doing? Why do you care about this? So I'm gonna cover all that when I come back, and more in a minute. If you're just tuning and you listening to the markmas Show, don't go away. You definitely don't want to miss this last section. I'll be right back, all right, welcome back. If you're just tune, you're listening to the Mark Moas Show.

We're talking about, of course he should ever waked the decentralized revolution, and we are talking about today specifically, yes, the decentralized revolution. We're talking about the way the world is literally breaking apart as the US as a nation continues to lose its dominance, and the US dollar as the reserve currency of the world continues to lose its dollar dominance. And so I've gone through a lot. You know, we went through history lessons, We went through the reduction

of using the dollar as a currency. We just went through the destruction of the US dollars backing in oil and the OPEC nations. If you missed any of this, don't worry. I got you back. Just you can search it on your favorite podcast player, just search the Mark Moss Show and your favorite podcast player. Or you can check it out on YouTube and just search Market Disruptors on YouTube and you'll find all these on it. You

can watch me and listen to me at the same time. Also, if you're on social media, I'd love to hear from you. Just ask me any questions, shout me out, tell me that you you heard the show. You can find me on social media at one Mark Moss at one Mark Moss. That's just the number one now. Also, I do want to say, um I you know, I speak around the country quite a bit. I'm going to be speaking at

the Bitcoin conference that's coming up here next month. That's a pretty big deal for you to be paying attention to because as the US dollar loses dominance, there's not going to be another single reserve currency. In my opinion, there's there's no global power to come and unilaterally from on high you say this is the new reserve currency.

It's not the way it works. All of these nations, these new trade alliances, are trying to come up with their own currency, their own monetary system, but now never going to trust each other. So that's why they're all want to trade in their own currencies. And he wants to trade in the rupee, Brazil wants to trade in the real China wants to trade the Nuuan, and so

we're going to continue to see the monetary system decentralize. Ultimately, none of them are going to trust each other, so some are going to argue to go back to gold. The problem with gold is it doesn't work in the information age. Now I light gold, I hold gold. I think you should own some gold, But it doesn't work in the information age. And that's why I think bitcoin is what will ultimately take over, because it's something that is what we call trust lists. That means you don't

have to trust bitcoin. You don't have to trust the other person. There's no counterparty to that. So in a gold back system, I have to trust that whoever's holding the gold in their vault really has the gold in their vaults. And if I'm trusting the US dollar or the Chinese yuan, I have to trust that won't seize my bank accounts. With bitcoin, nobody controls the network and so there is no trust that's required with bitcoin. Now you may not trust it because it's, you know, brand

new technology. You don't understand it, and I get that most of the world doesn't, but it's it's growing, it's growing really fast. As a matter of fact, the bitcoin conference has gone from like fifteen hundred people few years ago to like thirty thousand people this year. Like I said, I'll be speaking. If you want to come hang out

with me, I have a special deal for you. You can get a ten percent discount off of your tickets if you use code Mark Moss at Checkout ten percent off and just go to their website Bitcoin Conferences, Google that and just use Mark Moss get ten percent off. And if you use my discount code and send me a message on social media or on email, then I am organizing a special get together with just people from

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to continue and it's going to accelerate. And so what does that mean for you? Well, it means a couple of things. One, it means that the US's influence in the world of politics will continue to wane. I think that's a given. You already already know that. It also means that the US dollar will continue to be used less and less in trade. And what happens with that is that other nations are going to stop buying US treasuries.

They don't want to. They don't want to hold their reserves, their savings in US dollar treasures anymore, and instead they'd rather have the commodities, the real goods and services. And so we're seeing this all over. As a matter of fact, I put a chart on Twitter the other day. Again, if you're not following me on Twitter, check it out at one Mark Moss and it shows since two thousand thirteen, the amount of central banks purchasing US treasuries has basically

stayed flat. From twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one was basically flat, But since twenty twenty one it has fallen

off of a cliff. But in the meantime, and in the exact same time period since twenty thirteen, the amount of central bank purchases of gold have been rising, as a matter of fact, have risen quite a bit, and so what does that tell us, Well, with central bank currencies central demand for US treasuries staying flat but gold going up, it shows that these central banks are deciding to not hold US treasuries and instead hold something else. We've seen that China has cut their supply of US

treasuries down big time. Even Japan has been cutting its supply of US treasuries. And we're seeing nations that would rather hold the assets in the ground. Maybe that's part of the reason why Opec has cut their oil production. They'd rather have the oil in the ground than the dollars because they know those dollars will not buy them more goods and services in the future. And so this is what what's happening now. If they're doing that, then

what should you be doing. If they're increasing their reserves, their savings and commodities and other assets out of the US dollars, then you should probably be doing that. Why, Well, for the same two reasons. One, what would you expect? Well, what we would expect is that we already know that

the US is spending more than it brings in. As a matter of fact, the US is running trillion dollar deficits that will probably go to two trillion dollar deficits here pretty soon, and that means they have to continue to print more money and print more, more money, and more money. As they continue to print more money, your dollars buy you less goods and services. So this means that your dollars will buy you less goods and services

in the future. So that means inflation. I mean, home prices are gonna go up, car prices is gonna go up, gasting is gonna go up, steak, milk, cheese, it's all going to go up. It's all going to go up. So you don't want to save in dollars, You want to save in something else, something that will keep up

with the price of inflation or beat it. Now, as they continue to use less and less dollars and they buy less US treasuries, that means we have to print even more, which means the prices go up even more and even faster. And so one thing I would expect is I would expect inflation to continue to rage on. The FED does not have inflation under control. OPEC just made sure the FED doesn't have controlled. OPEC basically took away the fed's control. Now, Remember, nothing moves up or

down in a straight line. So we might see a couple more CPI prints PC prints coming out in a couple of months that look like it's going down, because nothing goes up and down in a straight line. But if you zoom out over the next year or two, three, four, five years, we're expecting a lot more inflation. The other thing that I would expect is I would expect to see, Unfortunately,

it continued, you know, volatility in geopolitics as well. This means more supply chains, supply chain issues and things like that, and so we want to be prepared to deal with that. A couple of ways that we want to do that is one, not only just securing our wealth, investing our well so it buys us more goods and services in the future, but we also want to secure our freedoms.

So one we want to think about our communication. We can see that all over the world our communications are under attack, and so we need to think about how can we set up our communications that we can control. How can we do that using decentralized communication that works like Noster for example. Zion is another one that I'm using for example, as we want to do that. Open monetary networks of course, like Bitcoin like I was talking about before, holding some gold as well, and then holding

real assets, holding real estate, holding land, holding cattle. It's part of the reason why I'm actually recording this. I'm coming to you from my ranch in Texas right here. I got five cows, I got eight goats. You know, most of you guys know, I live on the beach most of the time, but I have this ranch just in case I might need some of those hard assets. And so we're going to continue to see volatility there. We'll continue to expect to see higher prices, specifically around

energy oil. You know, the basically the markets are teel is that oil probably about a hundred dollars a barrel this summer. So expect for gas prices to go back up in a big way, and so you have to be able to protect yourself and offset that. Now, ultimately, why do you care about this, Well, over the long run, this inflation really takes hold, and unfortunately, if the US doesn't pivot back pretty quickly here, it's gonna just start accelerating and so you're gonna have to take even more

action to keep your head above water. I think inflation can happen so fast it can be like Zimbabwe, where you know, the Zimbabwe dollars to be pegged one to one with the dollar, but it inflated so fast that everybody became a billionaire in Zimbabwe. But it was three hundred billion dollars for one single egg. If you're just

tune in, you're listening to the Mark Ball Show. We've been talking about the decentralized revolution, talking about the death of the US dollar by a thousand cuts, how OPEC is ganging up and just took the power away from the FED, and how you should expect higher inflation and why shoul do about it. Hopefully enjoyed it. Hit me up on social media out one Mark Moss let me know, and that's what I got. Thanks for listening.