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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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Broache73 · 51-55, F
As we used to say in the Military, “Hope is not a course of Action”

The bottom line is that the United States is no longer the Leader of the Free World, and no longer capable of keeping adversarial Nations in check. It’s clear other Countries are already adapting to this reality.

Earlier for example, China successfully launched a Rocket to the Moon as part of a multi-decade mission to establish an International Lunar Research Station. China hopes to construct a large, City-like base along with several international partners including Russia, Pakistan, Thailand, South Africa, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Egypt. Turkey and Nicaragua are also interested in joining. This is pretty remarkable given how many Nations are participating, even if just nominally.

This would have been unthinkable a few decades ago, today the World Community realizes that they don’t need American Funding, Leadership, or Expertise.

After all, if the rest of the World Community doesn’t need the US for Space Exploration, and they can ignore the US when it comes down to World War 3, then why on earth would they need the US Dollar anymore?!

The US Dollar was the clear and obvious choice as the Global Reserve Currency back when America was the undisputed Superpower and Economic Powerhouse. IT'S A DIFFERENT WORLD, this isn’t 1944 or 1991 anymore!

Foreign Countries continuing to rely on the US Dollar ultimately means Governments and Central Banks buying US Government Bonds. Why would they be dumb enough to take such a risk when the National Debt is already 120+% of GDP?!

Congress already passed a new Law several weeks ago authorizing the Treasury Department to confiscate US Dollar Assets of any country it deems an “Aggressor State.” While Others might think this mendacity is a morally righteous idea, the reality is that it'll only turn off Foreign Investors. Why should and why would China, Saudi Arabia, or anyone else for that matter buy US Government bonds when they know they can be confiscated in a heartbeat?! I sure wouldn't, No Thanks!
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Ynotisay · M
@Broache73 (Commerce.gov) The United States has been ranked as the top destination for foreign direct investment for the 12th consecutive year according to Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council’s 2024 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index.

Just to toss that out there.
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