You think the Fed's bad, how much worse was the 75 years or so of LIBOR controlled interest rates in the Eurodollar system where most dollars are born, live, and die, outside of the reach of the Fed and the Treasury? Which even governed floating rate debt IN the US, despite being determined by a small group of London and European banks.

Thankfully LIBOR was finally killed as a policy rate, bringing dollar policy back on shore with SOFR. Still fiat shenanigans, but it's now at least an American currency that serves American interests, instead of London.

American parasitic interests sure, but at least they're OUR parasites now.

And we can finally sit back and watch Europe crumble. And perhaps even finally actually gain some independence from Britain, but there is still the deep state to contend with.

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That’s fair. When bitcoin replaces government debt as the reserve asset layer of global finance, we can stop all this nonsense.

Don’t think they will ever give up their printer…

Well, of course they won’t. But the world will absolutely benefit from a base layer money that is tied to reality.

Few of us shall benefit, but at least we have the opt out mechanism 🤙🍊🔥

Shiiiit, I will.

Democratic republics likely wouldn't, as elected officials are incentivized to sell out the country for personal gain.

Monarchs have no reason to allow the bank to extract from their kingdoms. There's a reason the Bank of England originated almost immediately after the "Glorious" Revolution neutered the crown and raised Parliament to effectively rule the UK.