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Western governments are our worst enemy

Western governments are our worst enemy

The only way to fully understand the cumulative damage caused by successive US, UK, and EU administrations is to stop believing in their statistical nonsense and propaganda.

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Official narratives conceal the damage being done to everyone’s wealth, which is increasingly plundered. And the units of account are depreciating at an alarming rate as well. Just look at the purchasing power of the dollar, reflected in the value of real, legal money which is gold:

Since only 2016, by this measure it has lost 78% of its purchasing power for foreign holders. This is a far cry from the government’s own inflation statistics, slavishly followed by investors, economists, the media, and politicians alike. And because investors like to record their asset values in dollars or their own currencies, they are oblivious to this debasement. And consumers observe merely that prices are rising, not their currency declining which they would do well to understand.

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