We can learn a great deal about our current monetary system and where it is headed simply by studying monetary history from the past. By doing so, we unlock the truth as to where currencies have repeatedly failed throughout time and why.

What has happened in the past throughout various societies? It’s common in every culture once an established monetary system is set in place, to start deficit spending. Once this spending occurs, countries begin to enter into larger and larger wars. At some point a country will grow up from a small country into a great empire such as the Greek or Roman Empires of the past. As these great societies engage in larger wars more money is needed to finance these wars. From this point government becomes too big and the wars being fought only compound the stresses that hold up the entire financial system…

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Every day that passes were seeing nothing but lies coming from the central banks. Three years running, we have been seeing interest rates close to zero; in a bid to pump up and force the life back into a dying economy. With the exception of Japan’s failure, to drop interest rates at near zero for over two decades, no other country in recent times has attempted such an uncontrolled careless monetary policy.

Throughout economic history zero percent interest rates have never been used, for an especially good reason. To use a zero interest rate policy upon a nation should be a condition of last resort, a last-ditch effort to shock an economy back to life. Any interest rate that is below inflation is never good for an economy. This rate policy actually rips-off savers. In a society that has been accustom to saving, savers do not get any real returns on their accounts. By leaving rates on savings ultra low, it's tantamount to "savings account rape"…

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The government can print money. So why don’t they simply print more and then give it away to everyone? Certainly this would alleviate poverty and stimulate the economy. Within modern economic societies money is used so intensely, that many times people forget what money really is and why we use it.


Why was money invented?

Before money came along, people got what they wanted by trading things between one another so in the end both people would receive what they wanted. Economists call this method of exchange or the barter system. Bartering however was a very inefficient system because you had to seek out someone who had what you wanted…

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The current monetary system that’s in place is corruptly managed by the greed, power and deception of the world banks and those who run them. Weekly news comes out of illegal bank practices and fraud, its mainstream news anymore. A quick example would be the latest scandal involving LIBOR. It is apparent today that the more reliable an institution is, the bigger the fraud. Libor was the benchmark for loans into the trillions of dollars, for decades.

Libor’s assets are believed to have been connected to transactions globally in the forms of personal, small business and mortgage loans in excess of $500 trillion dollars. Libor was key in the setting of global interest rates. To date the Libor scandal could be the biggest of its kind in history...

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The United States could very well be on the path towards a deflationary collapse, far worse than America experienced during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. However arguably, the likely outcome is going to be even worse. The US is currently on the rails and headed right for hyperinflation and the destruction of the dollar. Overwhelming evidence has been abundant, America has known for a long time this problem exists. Yet the US Government and Federal Reserve have yet to come up with any viable solutions to fix it.

All current indications are pointing to Hyperinflation in the United States, and destruction of the dollar sometime within…

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Real money also referred to as “sound money” is made up of hard assets such as gold and silver. This form of sound money starts in the ground where it is first dug up. Then it goes through processing and refinement and finally it becomes money once the refined gold or silver has been minted into coins by a government treasury. However in this day and age it is not sound money that circulates globally within each country it is another form of money known as “fiat currency”. All fiat currencies are the same but how…

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Would the world be a better place if it were able to share the same currency? Would it benefit the masses? Honestly, that answer has to be no. The chances of the entire world using the same currency will never have a chance to exist, let’s understand why.

The utmost important factor in argument against sharing a world-wide common monetary unit regardless what that monetary unit might be called, hinges upon one common and certain fact. The loss of each country’s ability to wage war. To begin, all countries would have to be losing their economies at the same time. And from this point forward if a common currency were put into place, each country would lose the ability to create war upon another nation…

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Inflation is a serious problem that will affect any society overtime. Serious monetary stresses are created that will affect the most basic of needs such as food for your family to eat, fuel for your car or medicine to keep you alive. Inflation makes the prices you pay increase on the exact same products or services you were buying or using before. Most people will realize these price increases as they reflect on what these items had cost them only 1-2 years ago. Why?
Inflation is created by directly increasing the money supply in an economy. When this happens it creates a watering down affect on the money supply. If you take newly created dollars and add them to the economies money supply, along with all the other dollars that were already there, we get the total money supply…


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The Federal Reserve is one of the largest problems facing America today. The one question many people ask is what does a Federal Government Bank have to do with our nation's problems? For starters it is Federal in name only.
The Federal Reserve Bank is not part of the US Government. It is actually a privately owned corporation and international bank that was created by Congress in 1913. The passage of the 16th amendment was passed rather shadily, and according to some, illegally. Furthermore it was given the exclusive rights to "print money" for the U.S. Government by Congress, during the Christmas break in 1913 when most of the representatives were on vacation.
Before the creation of the Federal Reserve the power and responsibility to print our nation’s money was done by the Congress of the United States. Sadly since the time when the Federal Reserve was given the power to operate the printing press, the people of America have continually been charged interest on every dollar ever printed…

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America has had a history of fiat currencies dating back as far as the American Revolution. Even before America’s colonists won their independence from the British. It was in 1775 that the Continental Congress attempted creating its first fiat currency, the Continental.

During the early days of the Revolutionary War the American colonists were having serious trouble financing the revolution. Efforts to acquire additional money from England were slow at best. Furthermore the Continental Congress was forbidden to directly tax the colonists for war funding efforts. A solution for this immediate problem was finally created. The answer was to issue paper currency or bills of credit. This new money was called “Continental Currency” nicknamed Continentals, which became America’s first attempt at the use of fiat currency in the new America. At the time there were many congressmen who realized that over issuing paper currency was just a hidden form of taxation…

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At the end of WWI Weimar Germany was suffering from rising inflation, which was starting to get out of control. During a two year period from 1921 through 1923 Inflation was running away. During the time, nearing the end of 1923 Weimar Germany would forever be remembered as a place where one of the greatest hyperinflationary events in history took place. When hyperinflation finally took hold of Germany during this time, its devastating grasp wiped out the entire Weimar Society.

These are times where iconic photos taken of the time can be seen in history books. Photos such as a man using his German marks as “wall paper” or of people trying to buy a single loaf of bread while pushing a wheel barrel full of cash around just to pay for it. Another iconic photo of a woman burning her German marks in a woodstove just to keep the bitter cold away. At that time the money was worthless, burning money was cheaper than burning wood to use as fuel for heat. The hyperinflation was so terrible that on November 1st in 1923 at the height of the crisis 1 pound of bread cost 3 billion German marks while a glass of beer cost 4 billion and a pound of meat cost an incredible 36 billion marks.

As the Weimar example shows their devastation and suffering, this could become an economic event to reach America soon enough. Can the United States actually fall into a Weimar Style Hyperinflation?

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The rate of inflation in the United States has been steadily rising. The inflationary rate is a major, if not the key fundamental factor in determining the actual value of your money. The actual net worth of your dollars can be translated into how much purchasing power your dollars have for buying various goods and services over time.

The rate of inflation in the United States has been steadily rising. The inflationary rate is a major, if not the key fundamental factor in determining the actual value of your money. The actual net worth of your dollars can be translated into how much purchasing power your dollars have for buying various goods and services over time....

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Inflation is defined as an increase in the overall level of prices for goods and services in an economy over a period of time. Thus as the prices of goods and services increase each unit of currency actually buys less, therefore decreasing the purchasing power of the money.

Hyperinflation therefore is defined as a very high rate of inflation or inflation that has gone “out of control”. During a hyperinflationary event price levels within a specific economy rise very quickly as a function of its domestic currency in contrast to a foreign currency losing its real value at an ever increasing rate....

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Gold does not have very many industrial applications or everyday uses in general. However the one thing gold has always been good for, is value protection. Throughout history gold has always maintained its true value regardless, the economic circumstances it encounters. Currency devaluation is always accompanied by inflationary monetary policy.

Gold has always been used as a hedge against devaluing currencies including the US dollar. Silver has always had a high industrial demand. However now it is also being used to hedge inflation being dubbed the “poor man’s gold”....

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If you happen to be an American reading this article then I assure you that you’re in the midst of the greatest financial paradigm shift in modern history. Furthermore you have a front row seat to this epic event. Hopefully you are one of the few that have been following this event closely and paying attention to options still available to you for protecting yourself from rising inflation, and the ever approaching economic crisis.

Hopefully, you’re not in the category of non believers thinking the government will save you. Doing your best pretending the day of reckoning is never going to come upon your doorstep, regardless of all the evidence you might have heard or read about. Regardless what level of defiance you carry around with you history will always be on the side of the truth. There is no prejudice here that will enter the equation regardless of what you think you would be entitled to. If I am sounding a little pessimistic, then I am making my point. There is nothing that will keep this economic crisis from coming and there is too much hard evidence and monetary history surrounding this to look the other way...

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