the blueprint repeats:
currency debases → gold doubles → trust breaks → empire collapses → New system rises.
Discussion
let’s break it down:
Rome:
started with silver coins at 95% purity.
three centuries later? less than 5%.
Gold doubled. Soldiers demanded gold pay. Inflation skyrocketed 1,000%. Trade and trust crashed. Empire fractured.
Spain:
1500s superpower thanks to silver influx.
Printed wealth without production. Prices quadrupled. Middle class destroyed. Four defaults in 50 years.
Gold & silver doubled. Empire bankrupt.
France:
late 1700s paper money backed by land.
Printed billions, currency collapsed 40-to-1.
Gold doubled twice. Bread riots, guillotine, regime collapse.
Britain:
1949 pound devalued overnight.
Gold doubled in pound terms.
Lost reserve currency crown to US dollar.
USA:
1944 Bretton Woods placed dollar king, pegged to gold at $35.
1971 Nixon broke peg amid overspending.
Gold exploded 20X.
Now, gold doubled again in 24 months. $2,000 to $4,000+
Not gold rising, dollar shrinking.
Gold = the constant
Currency = the variable
even Wall Street agrees:
JP Morgan calls it The Debasement Trade.
governments print
central banks buy gold
debt explodes
confidence erodes
alarm bells ring
why do empires fall?
* Governments spend beyond means
* Borrow more
* Central banks print money
* Currency weakens
* Elites buy hard assets
* Middle class savings vanish
* System resets
it’s math — not luck.
why do empires fall?
* Governments spend beyond means
* Borrow more
* Central banks print money
* Currency weakens
* Elites buy hard assets
* Middle class savings vanish
* System resets
it’s math. not luck.
and there's a name for who wins:
those closest to the money printer.
Rome’s generals
France’s financiers
Britain’s bankers
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