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America's Real Crash both Foreign and Domestic

H.L. Mencken had it right when he warned; The most dangerous Person to any Government is the Person who can read and figure things out for themselves ...to paraphrase.

The United States’ Monetary Deceit comes at the expense of other Foreign Economies’ performance. Abandoning the Dollar as the Reserve Currency will prove beneficial for their own Self-interests, Russia and China have certainly figured this out. OPEC+ Countries are now getting that Memo, and BRICS Countries will certainly take full advantage of this fact too.

“The World Community has to live beneath its means to enable American Taxpayers and Consumers to live beyond their means. The rest of the World Community has to under-consume, save, and make that available to the US and finance huge US Trade Deficits. This is now causing problems of all sorts — not only the drain on the Resources of these Economies, keeping Interest Rates artificially low to help sustain the Dollar, ending up with Asset Bubbles, misallocated Resources, and diminished Economies.

We’re exporting our Fiat Monetary Policy around the World Community. The sooner the World moves on to Sound Honest Money, the better off they’re going to be. Trillions of Debt, Deficits, and Dependency are the worst habits in a country, inevitably undermining Currency:

It’s like someone who smokes cigarettes, and the Doctor tells them, ‘You know you’ve got to quit those cigarettes. You’re going to get cancer!’ But they keep smoking, and they don’t have cancer. They don’t quit until they go to the Doctor and he says, ‘Oh you know what? You’ve got cancer!’ And then it’s like, ‘Oh shoot, I better quit smoking!’ Well, it’s a little late for that, right? You should have quit a long time ago, but you think, Well, I haven’t developed cancer yet, so I guess I can keep smoking.

By the time we get the Economic Collapse, it’s too little too late to fix it.
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Elessar · 26-30, M
"BRICS" countries have no cohesion whatsoever; none of them, either taken singularly or combined, have enough influence to push their own currency as an alternative to the dollar. It's a set of countries that have only in common the desire to become the next US, and nothing more than that - while at the same time they hate each other just as much (if not even more) than they hate the US itself (see China-India attritions).

Russia tried that in 2022 and now it look more like North Korea on steroids than a competitor of the US in the international scene. China's economic outlook looked much better before their mismanagement of the pandemic and their ambiguous "neutrality" in the Ukr-Rus war is costing them significantly, with more and more countries divesting and decoupling from there. India doesn't want China, a country they have active disputes with, become any more powerful than it already is, and viceversa.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Elessar Russia is a good example of a hollow economy, based on very few exports and a dwindling power base. In fact when you start comparing it too America, there are similarities.. China and India are the ones to watch. Almost 3 Billion people and a ton of room for growth. Anything that makes them allies is a game changer in the world..😷
Elessar · 26-30, M
@whowasthatmaskedman India perhaps, but China is already in decline, economically speaking. Their GDP growth took a massive hit post 2020. And I don't see things improving anytime soon for them when most of the world is leaving not to risk another Russian-like situation, with their govt seizing their own investments and the possibility of sanctions looming if they'll try to pull another Ukraine in Taiwan.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Elessar While all your facts are correct, the picture is more conplex. Remember that china is still a centralized economy and as such they can bent a lot of rules and not have to account to the people, or any international standard. So a downturn or economic failure can disappear overnight with no explanation or compensation..😷
Elessar · 26-30, M
@whowasthatmaskedman Not when 1.4bln start to starve. Propaganda works only so long as people are well fed.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
@Elessar I suggest you look into the history of Famine as a control of the population within China. China is a massive diverse land mass and these issues are not universal. The New Orleans floods had no effect on Seattle..The problem of a Pro democracy push in Beijing with students protesting in the streets was "solved" by bringing in tank units from outlying regions and crushing people under the treads. You cant compare this behaviour to standards we accept..😷