The Trouble with Made in America

“Politicians will, 100% of the time, everywhere always and forever steal from your future to improve theirs.”

Quick History of Dollar Destruction 

• 1913 - Federal Reserve Established 

  • Central Banks LOVE consolidation, currency devaluation and asset appreciation

• 1933 - Executive Order 6102

  • FDR demands privately held gold be turned into the Federal Reserve 

  • buys it for $20/ounce

  • promptly changes value to $35/ounce 

  • thus devaluing the dollar by creating money via executive fiat 

• 1944 - Bretton Woods 

  • USD as Reserve Currency 

  • backed by gold 

• 1971 - Nixon removes dollar peg to gold at $35/ounce 

  • It’s fiat time! 

“Politicians will, 100% of the time, everywhere always and forever steal from your future to improve theirs.”

Me, 2025 

The Trouble with Made in America 

Fiat Currency + Reserve Currency Status + Politicians = lol you’re doomed. 

1. Money printing has a 100% ROI…for a while 

   1. why build cars when you can print money? 

   2. Print money → offshore production → use USD like a hammer 

2. Eventually money printing causes inflation 

   1. which drives interest rates up domestically 

   2. why invest in an auto plant when the government pays 7% risk free? 

3. Inflation Kills Middle Class (we are here) 

4. Modern Monetary Theory 

5. War 

6. End of Empire 

That’s it that’s all I’ve got. 

Live Free, 

Kalian 

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