Are you caught up on your history of what happened in the fifteen hundreds with the separation of church and state and the battle went down. Well, you might know about the story when the ninety five thesis was put under the church store, but do you understand how was
technology that forced that change? And more importantly, how does understanding that story reflect and tell us, maybe highlight and show us exactly what is happening today when it comes to the terms of not just our information today, but
as well as our finances and our money. We're going to break down what happened in the past fifteen hundred so we can understand the rhymes of history and how it's repeating, how we can see the same things playing out, how that leads into what's happening in the world today, and more importantly, what we can do to counteract these changes so we can still win even as things are devolving.
And then eventually where this all leads. It's going to be an amazing conversation, one that I've talked about before in different bits and pieces, but I haven't put it all together. So let's just jump into it. If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Markomall Show. I like to talk about the way the world is changing as we look at through the lens of politics, finance,
and technology. So today we're going to be talking about finance and technology, not really so much politics, mostly finance and technology, and we're going.
To be used history as our guide.
I love history because you know, there's the saying those who don't understand history are bound to repeat it. And I know that a lot of times we hear these cliches so often that we start to overlook them, but it's true. So for example, if I had touched a hot stove and burned my hand, that was in the past, that was history. Well I would know that if I touched that hot stove again, the same outcome is most likely to happen.
I'll probably burn my hand again.
And so when we look through history, it's not that the exact same things happen. That's why it doesn't repeat. It rhymes, it's the rhyme. And the reason why is when you understand the mechanics of how that worked, what are the cause and effects that transpired, So it's not going to happen the exact same way. So, for example, I touched the hot stove before and I burned my hand. Next time I bumped into the hot stove with my
arm and I burned my arm. Right, the cause and effect you touch something hot, you get a burn is real. Whether I burn my hand or my arm changes. That makes sense.
And so when we look at history, we.
Want to understand the cause and effect so we can understand what happens. And let's dig into that. So let's go back in time. Now, I say I've broken this dow many times that on a two hundred and fifty year time frame, we have a pendulum. The world swings back and forth on a tune and fete your time frame. Now, there's lots of cycles. There's lots of cycles. Let's just jump to the eighty four year cycle. It's been popularized by the book The Fourth Turning. This talks about eighty
year cycles. Really it breaks down to about an eighty four year cycle. It's not exact, and they're like seasons and about every eighty four years. We sort of have this Fourth Turning generational theory. But we also have what's called like a populist uprising or a regime change about every eighty years eighty four years. So eighty years ago was the Indworld Two. We saw you know, Hitler, Mussolini, you know FDR's New Deal.
In the United States.
About eighty four years before that we had Karl Milk Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto led to the largest revolution that we saw in European history. About eighty four years before that was the American and the French Revolution. Now, if you know much about cycles or charts, the third time is the big strong one. So three times eighty four equals two hundred and fifty fifty two to be exact, and that puts us two and fife year cycle, which basically is like a pendulum swinging back and forth to
centralization and decentralization. So right now you could argue we are at peak centralization. Two and fifty years ago, you could argue we were at peak decentralization. We set up a decentralized government the United States, a republic. Now two and fife years before that brings us back to fifteen
hundred when we were at peak centralization. You're tracking with me here, Now, what was going on in the fifteen hundred is that led to peak central Well, it was technology that really got us there, But we're not going to go further back than that. But at that time, the church and the state ruled everything right, So the Catholic Church and the government were working together to enforce
their will. Now, just like any government organization, just like any central planned government, they have to control the flow of information. They have to control the narrative. They have to tell you the story they want you to believe so that they can maintain power. They can maintain that power and control over you.
If you start to see a.
Different viewpoint, then they'll lose their power, which is why you see like in China, for example, they've had the Great Firewall where they haven't allowed Western Internet to get into their country. So you know, they don't have Google or Amazon or Facebook. They have their own versions of those things that they can control because they don't want their people in China to be influenced by Western ideology. Now,
I don't think that's a good thing. I think we should all be free to have information and we can make up our own minds. Unfortunately, what I'm seeing today is in Europe and the United States they're going down the same path. Europe is fast tracking having their own Great Firewall up.
If you will. At the rate.
Europe is on right now, their internet could probably even be dare I say, more restrictive than what China's is. It's insane to think like that. I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole. But basically, controlling the flow of information more importantly, like I said, controlling the narrative is always the key. Now, going back to this point, the church and the state had that power, that control.
They had the.
Narrative and they told the people what to believe. When it came to religion, the people didn't have access to the Bible, they couldn't hear directly, so you could only come to the church to believe what they told you.
And the only way to get to God was through the church.
Very central. It was a central point. But technology changed that. About seventy years previous, we had the invention of a new technology and it had been around longer, but a sort of fit mass production of the printing press, and the printing press then allowed the first thing that was
printed were Bibles. If people started getting the Bibles, they started reading the information and they said, wait a minute, this isn't what we've been told our whole life, this isn't true that we don't have to go through the church to get to God. We can have our own direct path. Now, anybody that read that, anybody that talked about it, spread that information, was labeled a heretic. It was called heresy, and they were put to death. I
don't know the stats. I'm guessing one hundreds of thousands, potentially maybe millions of people were probably killed over this.
But it didn't matter.
Once that information got out, then it spread.
It spread like a virus. The information got.
Out because humans want truth, we want information, and so it spread and no matter what they could do, they couldn't stop it. And eventually the monopoly that the church and state held over knowledge came part. All right, now, what does that story have anything to do with today?
Well, there's a.
Lot of parallels today, but specifically I want to talk about it in regards to the financial system. I like to say on my main YouTube, Pianel Mark Moss, if you're not checking out Mark Moss, you should check me out over there. I use a lot of charts and graphs and things like I can't do on the radio and podcast.
It's a lot more visual.
But I start out my show by saying trying to change the way you think about money because almost everything you've learned is wrong. Because what we've learned is wrong. The central power that controls the world today has intentionally withheld information from us in regards to finance and money
as well as they've misled us. Now, about one hundred years ago, Henry Ford, the father of the automobile and mass production, said that if the American people knew how the banking system worked, there'd be a revolution before the morning. I've used that quote before, you've probably heard it, but let's just break that down.
What does that mean.
So if they knew how the banking system worked, really, how the money system worked, is what he's saying. And more importantly, the banks creating money, issuing money, controlling the price of money.
That's what he's talking about. And then he goes on to.
Say that there would be a revolution before the morning. There wouldn't be a revolution next week, wouldn't be a revolution coming, not next year, not next week, not vote them out in four years from now. No before the morning. They wouldn't even go to bed, they'd go do it right now. That's how upset people would be. I remember
years ago when my daughter was much younger. How old was she maybe eight or nine years old, and we were driving down the freeway and I was kind of explaining to her how the banking system worked and how you know, basically the Fed Federal Reserve of just print money, which then devalue steals the value from our money that
we still have in our bank account. And I kind of broke this down to her in a very simple way that she could understand, and she kind of looked at me puzzled, and she said, why do.
People put up with this? Why do they allow it?
And that was the mind of like an eight nine year old however Shield was at that time, but it's exactly what Henry Ford was saying. Now, how are they able to do this? And how does this relate back to the story. Well, today's finance is very similar. Like I said, they don't teach us these things, they don't allow us access to this information. So I want to break down what financial literacy looks like country by country.
I want to look at some of the stats that we can see inside the United States, and it.
Is very very scary, talk about.
Ways that we can sort of counteract this ways that it's being counteracted. Now, just like the technology of the printing press broke that monopoly, and how technology today is breaking that monopoly, how you and I have a chance to front run that both on our education side and our money side, and a whole lot more. So I'm gonna take a very quick break. You don't want to miss it. Don't go away.
I'll be right back. All right, welcome back.
If you just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Mass Show. We're talking about how history from five hundred years ago is rhyming today and how the church and the state tried to control just like any central power central government does, had to control the flow of information, had to control the narrative in order to control or keep their place of power and control. And it was technology that broke the gap. Now, like I said, today,
we're seeing the same thing. Back then, it was the church and state that wanted its members to remain actually illiterate. They didn't want them to learn how to read, and they wanted them to stay a literally so the state could protect its monopoly on information. Right, they had to protect their monopoly on knowledge via the scriptorium. So the scriptorium was how they would transfer that knowledge from generation
to generation. But again it was technology, the printing press that broke that and the church's monopoly and it was broken. And today we're seeing the same thing where the central planners the government want its people, its members to remain illiterate as well. They want to protect their monopoly on money printing and on financial policy, so it doesn't happen. If they're able to break that, then we could break
the multi century monopoly on money. All right, So let's just break down some of this a little bit here for you. So what are we talking about here exactly? Well, as I said, it's always technology to change things. But let's just start with what are we seeing in terms of education around finance. So what we might call financial literacy is the knowledge and understanding of key financial skills.
So some of these skills that you should probably have is like budgeting and saving, investing, retirement planning, things like that, the ability to put them to use, you know, in your life, in your fares and things like that. But let's break that down a little bit. So budgeting great. Sure, we should live on less than we we should, we should consume less than we produce, we should live on
less than we created or produced. Right, So if I make a thousand dollars, I should live on less than a thousand dollars so I can save.
Okay, Look, that's budgeting. One on one. That's saving. I get it.
Like I told you that you understand the importance of it. Cool, we should understand investing. Okay, So I need a way to put that difference, that that money that I've saved, and I need a way for me to put it somewhere so it grows, so it's more in the future. Retirement planning, So investing retirement planning is sort of the same thing. First of all, let me let me break this down into another comparison. So there's no shortage of
diet plans out there right just here we are. We just entered the second month.
Of the year.
At the first of the year, everybody starts certain New Year's resolutions. Everybody wants to get in shape. And probably a lot of people listening to this, and certainly a lot of people around the world think about getting in shape. And so what diet should I start? Should I do a katogenic diet? Should I do the Atkins diet? Should I just count my calories and try and eat less or whatever. Right, And there's like I said, there's no shortage of diets. There's always a new diet fad that
comes out. You have weight Watchers and Jenny Craig and all these different things that can help you with a diet. Right, sort of like all these different things you can do for investing and budgeting and saving and retirement planning.
But here's the thing.
If all you did was eat real food, real food, being food that was either was living or is living, so animals and plants, right, If all you did was eat real food stuff that was living or is living, stuff that's not processed, you can't overeat. So if all you ate was organic, chemical free, hormone free, let's say, steak cows and chickens, and then you ate some vegetables, you ate broccoli and green beans, you wouldn't over eat.
If you stayed away from processed foods, if you stayed away from the sugary foods, you stayed away from high carb foods, if you stayed away from stuff that comes in a box, if you stayed away from stuff that has a label on it. I remember a long time we listened to an interview and they were talking with a dietician, and they said, when I'm looking at a label, what am I looking at? Like? What should I be avoiding and looking for? And they said, if it has
a label, don't eat it. So if you think about it, like steak and chicken doesn't have a label on it, it's just steak or chicken, right, Broccoli doesn't have a label on It's just broccoli, all right. So if you're stuck with that, you wouldn't have to you wouldn't You would over eat, and then you wouldn't need all the diets. So what am I saying here? All of these diets, all these new fads and diets that pop all the time, are designed to help you man edge the fiat food
system we have. It's all designed to help you manage eating fake food. If you ate real food, you wouldn't need that. Okay, Now what am I talking about here? How does this relate to money? Well, as you're probably aware by now, the government's roll the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world. Their goal or stated goal, they tell you all the time. Right now, they're trying
to get inflation back down to what two percent? So their goal is to steal through inflation two percent of your wealth per year, ten percent every five years.
That's their goal.
Now it's been running way too hot, and that's of course, that's their fake goal. They said it was at nine percent at one point. It was probably closer to twenty five. It's now supposedly down to in the threes, but it's probably closer to ten, right, But that's their goal two percent. So think about this. You're not able to just go be the best heart surgeon or brain surgeon, or rocket scientist or contractor coach, whatever you are. You're not able to do that and then go save your money because
they're causing inflation through printing money. They're stealing the value of your wealth because of that, Because your money is buying you less goods and services in the future instead of more, you're now forced to become an investor. Just like if you eat fake processed food, you're forced to now come up with start counting calories and do some diet fads. If you're in an inflationary monetary system, you're
forced to go be an investor. If I had a sound money system, if I had a way to store my wealth in a way that couldn't be debased, that the value couldn't be stolen from me in a way that my money bought me more goods and service in the future instead of less. I wouldn't have to learn
about investing and retirement planning. Now what does that mean. Well, that means that now instead of being a half whatever rocket scientist and a half or a half a radio host at this point, and then half investor, because if I'm focused on both, I'm not going to be very good at either, right, So instead of having to focus on both, I could just be the best whatever professional I am, and I could really start to work on that and excel at my craft, which is a net
gain for the economy and for the world overall, because I wouldn't have to worry about investing. Now, some of you might be going, well, that's why I don't worry about investing. I just give my money to somebody else to invest for me.
Sure, So then.
We've built this entire Wall Street complex to help you invest your money, sort of like we built this entire diet food and diet complex.
To help you eat fake processed food.
But we wouldn't need that if we ate real food, and we wouldn't need the investment community or economy, if we just had sound money, all right, So that's the first thing, if we understood how the banking system works. So what we're being told is that, sure, in high school, we're going to teach you financial literacy, we're going to
teach you about budgeting, saving, investing in retirement planning. But of course they don't all right now, what we can see just based off of that, so that was a little bit of a tangent to sort of break that down. When we look at what they teach for financial literacy around the world, we can see that Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, supposedly per the Information, are the best of the best
of the best. The United States, unfortunately, I think, is ranked twenty four out of thirty six, which is pretty interesting.
Now, why is that and does that really tell us what we want to see?
As a matter of fact, in the United States, there are people who are actually against giving financial education out they think that it actually could do more harm than good. I want to tell you what they're talking about. We're going to break that down a minute, and then I want to break to some mind breaking, mind blowing stats of what the education system is happening, and then we'll
talk about how technology changes this and fixes this. If you're just tuning in listening to the Mark Maas Show talking about how history's rhyming and we're seeing it play out right now, I gotta take a very quick break. We're going to be right back. Go way, I'll be right back, all.
Right, Welcome back.
If you just tune in, you're listening to the Markmas Show, we're talking about how history is rhyming. We're always seeing at rhyming. I talk about cycles a lot, and we're talking about how five hundred years ago, with the separation of the church and state, when the printing press brought bibles out, how that is rhyming today. And we're talking
about it from a financial lens all right now. Before the break, I was making the case that financial literacy and the way that we look at it through education is false in the first place, just as false it as do have a diet training. If you just ate real food, you wouldn't have to worry about it, And same with our financial education of learning how to invest is like I wouldn't need to do that if my money just held its value. But let's table that for a minute, and let's go back to how well are
we even doing in financial education. I remember a couple of years ago, I was working with my church and I was helping in the high school ministry, and I remember we went on a trip, a road trip up north, and I was driving a van with a bunch of kids, and I had another adult with me in the van, and she was a school teacher. And you know, of course I'm going to engage and we're going to talk about school, We're going to talk about education and all
these things. Of course I'm going to have that conversation. And we're talking, talking, talking, and she made a statement which a lot of people do. We just make these statements because it's things that we've hurt our whole lives, but we've never really taken the time to stop and think about what we're even saying. And she said, but everybody needs an education, don't we. I think at the time we were talking about college specifically. I'm not a
fan of college education. And she just made the statement, but Mark, everybody needs education. And I said, I agree, everybody needs education. I said to the teacher.
What do they need to be educated in? She couldn't answer. The question.
She had never taken the time to even think through what does a good adult, a well functioning, successful adult look like? And what are the things we would teach them in order for them to become that person. She had never even thought about that. She couldn't answer the question without blinking. I said, well, I can tell you what I think they should learn. See, I'm a big proponent of education. I'm not a big proponent of what the school system.
Teaches you as education.
So I said, sure, here's what they should learn. They should learn that we get paid for the value we provide. We should learn how to create value by offering goods and services to the market.
Once.
We should learn that free markets work by everybody win win relationships. We should learn communication skills. We should learn how to get along better. We should learn how to win friends and influence people. The book that change My life shout out. You should read that book how to win friends and influence people. We should learn how to win friends and influence people. We should learn how to influence people through our communication skills. We should learn sales and marketing skills.
Right.
We should learn time management skills. We should learn how to manage your time cut out distractions. We should learn obviously, all types about health, not how to manage a fake diet, a process food diet. We should learn about real health just you know what food we should eat, but gut health and how the body works, and how you know physical fitness and all those types of things. Anyway, I'm not gonna go on, but I could list a whole bunch of things that we should learn. But let's go
back to this. So schools should be teaching this, but are they. So let's take a look some of these stats that blew my mind when I looked at this. Now I'm going to single out, as I already said, the United States is way down in the bottom I think, bottom third or bottom twenty five percent of the world on financial literacy. But let's look at a couple instances in the United States for example.
Now, well, go.
Back to the argument. So I didn't I can finish that. So there's some people in the education system in the US that thinks that we should not be teaching financial education materials. And the reason why they say that is because they believe that it would make students overconfident in their financial decisions and that would result in consumers making foolish mistakes.
Think about that, that is real.
Think about how in saying that argument is nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, don't We don't want to teach them anything because then they could be too over confident and they could make mistakes.
Think about that for a second.
I mean, like, so we shouldn't teach high school students anything about health because if we teach them about health, they're gonna be over confident and they're not gonna care about their health.
Like what I mean.
We shouldn't teach people how to swim because if we teach people how to swim, they can be over confident and get in the water and drowned. So we should not teach them how to swim. I mean, it's just insane. This is the mental gymnastics that these teachers have. But let's let's take into some facts here in the city of Baltimore in Maryland. Really it's the state and I'm going to single out Baltimore. It's it's the big city there,
and it's horrible. Twenty three Baltimore schools have zero students that are proficient in math. That's per the state test results. Zero as in not one single one, not even one out of twenty three schools, not one single student is proficient in math. Now we're not even talking about the financial subjects, Like if you can't even do math, if you can't even be proficient in math, how are you ever going to figure out compound interest for retirement planning?
Right?
So they're talking about retirement planning, so investing things like that, How are you ever going to figure out how to invest if you can't even read a balance sheet because you're not even proficient in math. One of the big misconceptions about investing, and hopefully none of you are dealing with this, but investing is not gambling. When you're investing, you're buying a business. You're buying a company, So you should be able to look at that business and see
if it's a good business or not. I should be able to look at their revenues and their profits and their balance sheets and projections.
And things like that.
But if you don't understand basic math, you're not proficient math, how can you ever do that? So anyway, we're a long way from teaching people about money. We haven't even got the proficient in math. Now, seven percent of students oh, there was just out of all the school rules in Baltimore, only seven percent of the students were proficient. So there's twenty three that had not even one student proficient. But out of all of the schools, only seven percent of
the students were proficient in math. In Chicago, another big city, fifty five schools reported no proficiency in math either. Fifty five not one single student.
And it's worse.
Not just they were not proficient in math, they were not proficient.
In reading either.
Fifty five schools not one single student.
Proficient in math or reading.
So how the heck are you going to learn how to balance a budget or invest into a company or plan for your retirement if you can't do math or read. Now, sure before you did no maths, so you couldn't do the math on the company's balance sheet, But now you can't even read the balance sheet.
That's a big problem. Now that's Chicago and.
Marks this cherry picking data. So you know, I'm sure there's other places in Illinois that are good. Okay, So statewide, there were fifty three schools that reported no students who were proficient in math.
There were another.
Thirty schools reported zero students who were able to read at grade level. I mean, is that insane or what. So it's not that we're just not giving them financial literacy. We're not teaching them about money at all. But here's where we pivot on this. I know this sounds bad, but remember the state wants citizens to remain illiterate. So five hundred years ago, the church and state wanted you to remain at literate so you couldn't read the Bible for yourself.
Just let us tell you what it says.
Today, the states want citizens to remain financially illiterate for the same reason, the same principal reason. They want you to remain illiterate so you can stay a servant, a surf of the state. More importantly, they can protect their monopoly on money through the central bank. Right for the church, it was to protect its monopoly on knowledge. Today for the state it's to control its monopoly on money and money printing. They can't have you becoming successful and not
being dependent on the state. Nor can they have you understanding how money works so you don't continue to buy into the system.
You see, we can just opt out. I have.
I just pulled my money out of the bank. I don't use their money.
You know other.
Countries where you see money failing all the time, in Argentina, for example, or Venezuela or Lebanon. They don't use that nation's money. They use the dollar instead. And we don't have to use our state's money if we were smart enough to know that, And that's what they don't want to happen. However, again, we have the Internet. This is
again technology changes everything. So just like seventy years before, the printing press brought information to the forefront, today, well about thirty years ago we had sort of the explosion of the Internet.
And now that's changing people's minds.
We'll talk about that in a minute. Obviously you're listening to me, probably over the internet. We're going to talk about exactly how that's changing things and how we can use this technology not just to get ahead, not just to protect ourselves, our families, our loved ones, and maybe change the world, but how this relates to our money, and then where this and how this plays out, how would you get.
Positioned for all this.
We'll be back with more on that in a minute. I gotta take a very quick break. If you just tune in your listening to the Mark mass Show. We'll be right back.
Don't go away, all right, welcome back.
If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Maas Show. We're talking about how five hundred years ago, the history from five hundred years ago is literally repeating again right now. We talked about how the church and the state controlled well, any government for that matter, any central power is going to try to control their power through control in the narrative. They have to tell the story. They can't have people thinking different things. Now, this is sinister, let's say that.
Right.
So when it's somebody trying to hold you down by lying to you, gaslighting and you withholding information from you for bad purposes, that that's that's bad. I'm not for that, right, that's sinister. However, I think it is important that there's information. It's a very very touch subject. I think, like when you think about the United States, for example, like we used to have a shared set of values, and as those values have broken apart, it's much harder for this
central government to stay together. It's a little bit of a tangent here. But one thing that I've often thought about is that you know, when I grew up as a kid, and probably a lot of you listening. We all listen to the same music. We listen you know, we watched the same movies. We wore the same clothes, right, because there wasn't that much selection, right, we had the nightly news, three channels on TV. I remember, you know, like I said, the same movies. We all did the
same things. And so because we all watched and read the same things, wore the same things, we did the same things more or less, we all basically had these shared circumstances and experiences that sort of made us all similar. You could almost be friends with anybody. Oh did you see that movie?
Do you listen to music?
And so we're all being shaped by the same culture. What the Internet did. Back to technology changing things, the Internet has allowed all of those things to splinter into a million pieces. No longer do we all listen to the same music anymore. As a matter of fact, you know, I used to buy well, I used to buy cassette tapes and then CDs. I'm old, not vinyl, I'm not that old. But I did buy cassette tapes. I bought a lot of CDs. But now we don't listen to it.
Now we just have streaming and now like some DJ in the cloud just spins up music for me, I'm not even sure what I'm listening to right, So it's like we're listening to all different types of music, all these different types of genres. We're all on the Internet onto different message boards and forums, We're reading different substacks, blogs, articles, things like that. You're here listening to me talking about some subject and somebody else is listening to someone el
talk about some other subjects. And so now our interests have become very diversified. Everything has been splintered into a million pieces, and we see this affecting society in a lot of ways. So for example, you know, we used to have megabands, rock bands that would sell out entire stadiums.
I guess Taylor Swift is still.
Doing that, but that's kind of it, right, Like we don't have this megaband anymore, you know. I know, I'm coming from the action sports industry, like in the surf industry, and we used to have these megasurf brands, Quicksilver, Billabong, it might have heard of.
Some of these.
And these companies were megabig and they had mega money and they were able.
To pay the athletes at big salary.
But now that industry has gotten broken up because now through the Internet, now companies can spin up, they can do print on demand and they can just launch a brand sellut over the internet. And now that's eaten into these big companies monopolies, and now the surf industry is filled with hundreds of small brands. Which is cool, it gives more opportunity. But the problem is now this wealth isn't being concentrated, and no longer are these these big
contracts for these big surfers. So this is the way the world changes, all right, this is the way the world changes. So it is important to have a shared narrative, not when it's being used for sinister reasons against us. But going back to this for example, So now, just like the printing press had come out seventy years before, the church and the state really got threatened by the printing of the Bible, today we have the Internet and that allows us to go into these little niches of
the market. And a lot of us have learned that it's the FED that creates the problems. Ron Paul led the charge within the Fed. That's kind of what woke me up and all of a sudden, eyes are on the Fed, now, the Federal Reserve, and what's his Fed policy? I mean, now we're all watching Jerome Powell come out and tell us what our fate is. Are they going to make money cheaper? Are they going to make money more expensive? And what will that do for my retirement account?
And well, I'm be able to buy a house next year. And we can see now that our hands are in our lives are in the hands of these central bankers, these central planners.
We can see that now.
And at the same time, you can listen to people like me who give you alternative information and advice, and it's starting to break that monopoly again. Henry Ford said, if if the people knew how the money system worked well today they do today. There's hundreds, I mean there's thousands, I don't know, millions of videos that explained to you how banking works, and how printing money eats away at
your inflation, debasing the currency eats way of inflation. We can see the societal impacts of this now after fifty years.
We have the data, we have the charts.
There's the website I like to go to all the time, WTF happened nineteen seventy one, like what happened in nineteen seventy one when we got off the gold standard, we started debasing the c and printing lots of money. We can see through a series of charts now that it's not just destroyed our purchasing power, earning power, or quality of life, but it's led to the obesity rate, it's led to the divorce rate, it's led to the unwed
mother rate. It's had all types of social implications, and we would have never seen that if it wasn't for the Internet. But we also have something else and that I would throw out is bitcoin, and so bitcoin is also breaking that monopoly.
Right.
So it's one thing to know about it. It's one thing to see it. It's one thing to understand it. But what can you do about it right now? In a previous segment I talked about, and I've talked about extensively, the three attack vectors are control the food, control the people, control the energy, control the colon, and control the money, control the world. Hend Kissinger told us that, and so we can see that those are the three attack vectors.
They're attacking our food system, our energy system, and now the money. Now, if we learned I talked about diet earlier, if all a was real food, I wouldn't have to worry about all the diet stuff I told you. But what if they take away our real food? Then I don't have an option Today we do, But what if we don't. But what about the money? Well, in Lebanon or Turkey or Venezuela, they could choose to not use that local currency and they could use the dollars instead.
But what about if you are to using the dollar? Then what you see? People want to look at the rate of change and how all of these currencies have lost value to the dollar.
Oh, look at the Dollar's still so strong.
You look at the Dixie Index, right, But if you look at the dollar compared to the S and P five hundred, or to gold, or to oil, or to bitcoin, or to real estate, you can see it's a whole different story. The dollar is crashing just as hard as those other currencies are. It's just not crashing against other currencies. It's crashing against real things. We see. Bitcoin gives us this safety net. It gives us A better term would be like a lifeboat. Right, We're on a sinking ship.
The dollar is sinking slower than the other currencies, and so you could jump from one boat to the next sinking boat if it's still going to be up for a while, but eventually that boat is going down as well. So rather than jumping from one sinking boat to the next sinking boat to the next inking boat, what you'd want to do is get to a boat that gets you away from all of that, and it's not sinking now.
It might be a small boat, and a small lifeboat might take a long time before it gets picked up by another boat or before it hits landfall or whatever that may be, but at least it's not sinking. At least it gives you a fiation that you could build your life on as opposed to just another sinking ship.
And that's sort of an analogy for where the dollar is. Right. The dollar is.
Sinking slower than the other boats, slower than the currencies around it. But we have a safety boat, we have a lifeboat that we can jump into. More importantly, it's allowing us to see the world differently. Right now, we can start to see that we don't have to use government money. We do have other options that we didn't have before. And just by changing our viewpoint, we can understand that now at this point, the central planners, the
federal reserves still have enormous power. And like I said earlier, we're all looking towards Jerome Power, head of the FROIUR Reserve, to see what he's going to do to affect our lives. Something I've been talking about a lot is for the last couple of years, they've been in what's called quantitative tightening, where they're tightening or they're making money more expensive, they're tightened the monetary system. When they tight the monetary system,
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We've been talking about how history is rhyming right now and how we can look at the parallels of how the printing presses, the technology of the printing press is broke the monopoly over information from the church and state in the fifteen hundreds, and how today the Internet and bitcoin is breaking the monopoly over information of the central planners we have today.
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