This is always a contentious topic. I am Always met with resistance to my main arguments. So without further adieu let us delve into why this is aweful and will only get worse. I see gold hitting $3500-4000 by the end of this cunt’s second term. His first term saw the largest growth of gold price / decrease in usd value of any sitting POTUS from $1200 to just over $2000 which is a 66% fluctuation whereas with biden it went from $2000 to $2700 which is 35% increase.
Anyway lets get into this. For the first 172 years of the history of the USD as a standardized currency the price of gold held strong only increasing ≈85% from $19 to $35. But since 1971 when nixon ended the gold standard the price has ballooned ≈8000% from $35 to $2800 today.
Gold has always been considered an inflation proof asset. It retains its value better than any other commodity subject to the rules of supply and demand markets. Gold was the first currency used outside of traditional barter and trade economics and its value is still intrinsically tied to the value of every circulating currency in existence. If you calculate the exchange rate between any two currencies you’ll quickly see that they all add up to good perfectly. But that’s basic and should go without saying.
Ever wonder why at the time of American history portrayed as the era of American working class prosperity (the mid forties till the mid seventies) one working adult making minimum wage could afford to raise a family of four with enough surplus to send their two children to college, save for retirement (if they weren’t part of the 50% of workers that had a pension around this time) and go on a modest yearly family vacation? Meanwhile today even a family with only one kid is struggling to make it by on two salaries totaling $100,000 after taxes?
Now this may just be conjecture on my part but I believe the reason for this massive flip in working class power dynamics over the lasy 54 years was intentional. Sometime after Kennedy was assassinated wall street corporate interest had for all intents and purposes captured our political process and instructed their employees (our alleged representatives) to enact legislation that would effectively eradicate all the progress made by the labor and civil rights movements of the 40’s 50’s and 60’s as well as FDR’s new deal policies which stood as a foundation for the progress that came after. They were successful meanwhile the corporate executive class adequately adjusted their compensation to counteract the intended results of these policies.
In 1938 after conservative policies had been doubled down on which led to the gilded age and left us with the great depression. FDR finally began to repair the damage with common sense fixes that the robber barrons had fought at every opportunity available. 1938 is when the fair labor standards act was passed. This legislated many common sense socialist protections for workers protecting them from ruthless exploitation by profits at all cost models of capitalism. Such as; child labor laws, federal holidays, weekends, the 40 hour 5 day work week and most importantly, minimum wage.
Minimum wage on a federal level in the 87 years since its introduction has been adjusted 22 times with most adjustments occurring within a year of the previous one. Today the last adjustment of federal minimum wage was 16 years ago. And for the 30 year period of 1938 to 1968 7 adjustments were passed after first being set at 25¢ per hour or 14.9 ounces of gold per year at a full time schedule($41,000 today or about $19.50/hour) The 3 most impactful adjustments were in 1950, 1956 and 1968 where minimum wage was respectively raised to 75¢, $1 and finally $1.60 per hour. St the time that ranged from 45 ,60 and 95 ounces of gold annually.
Today the highest minimum wage in the country of $20/hour for some California fast food workers barely produces more than 15 ounces of gold for a full time year of work. And federal minimum wage is approximately 5.5 ounces. So thats a loss in value of 94-85%
And here many people will try to convince you that “the price of gold isn’t an accurate measurement for inflation statistics” but this is incorrect. But go ahead and believe the world bank, international monetary fund and Wall Street’s cooked books. These institutions have no issue committing fraud and them footing the bill to the rest of the world but sure lets pretend they are telling us the truth about something so important as how badly the socio political and socioeconomic policies they’ve supported the last 5-6 decades have brought the rest of the world as well as america into a state of austerity for the working class while they put around in their new yachts supercars and private jets that burn anywhere from $7,000 to $40,000 worth of fuel per trip. They definitely seem credible 🥴
But anyway lets look at the basis of their inflation models. The inflation models peddled by these fine and proper institutions snd definitely not rotting fraud filled pus buckets of society. They are based almost entirely upon a metric known as “consumer price index” or CPI. And cpi is flawed for several reasons but the biggest of those is that CPI does not account for the devaluation of a currency due to the increase in circulating currency supply. Such as what happens when a governing body prints money out of thin air and increases the national debt over 50 times in the last 6 decades. Now if we contrast cpi to the price of gold we will see where cpi fails is where gold excells. The main driving point in gold’s price increase is economic worry caused by poor policy the most common of which being irresponsible and unrestrained Fiat currency printing. Now lets look at currency printing in the last 54 years. There are plotted graphs that solidify my point and you’re free to look them up. Now by the end of 1979 the price of gold had alrrady increased by 2000% to just over $700 and in less than 2 years by 1981 the US had finished printing the first one trillion dollars into circulation adding to the national debt substantially. Fast forward today and the last i checked the us debt was somewhere around 36 trillion dollars and we currently print one trillion dollars every 3 to 4 months which is driving the price of gold through the roof due to decreasing USD value and market worry about the stability of the US dollar in modern times.
So why could someone working a minimum wage job from 1945 up until the mid 70’s support a family of four? Because money was worth far more and leftist organizing held the feet of the wealthy legacy families in wall street to the flames (these fsmilies all had supported Hitler so blatantly in the 1930’s they held a rally for him at madison square garden and made him person of the year on Times magazine’s cover in 1938) lets do some math here. To earn equal value to 1950’s minimum wage you would need to make the equivalent of 45 ounces of gold which today is worth $126,000 or $60.57 per hour. In 1956 it was 60 ounces or $168,000/ $80.76 then for 3 years before nixon shock was put in motion by withdrawing from the bretton woods agreement, arguably the worst financial policy the us has ever made, us minimum wage peaked at $1.60 which produced 95 ounces of gold or $266,000 or $127.88/hour.
To come anywhere near this both adults need to work 80 hours a week with overtime at a base pay of $20 just to reach $208,000 before taxes. And yes you can live better than a majority of people on thst wage and even $120,000/yr is decent but with 4 kids good luck saving anything meaningful and living anywhere but highly undesirable urban areas in super red states.
So these are facts that i know at least several will comment to debunk on this post. But the facts I’ve mentioned remain. None more so telling than the reality that the rich who are well versed in the markets of investment banking, have always considered gold to be an inflation proof asset that is not just a status symbol or a usefull material for technological applications but also a store of wealth in chaotic economic times.
anyone saying or asking why would they lie to us about this? I mean, are you not paying attention? If they told us the truth, that someone making quadruple federal minimum wage today is making 20% of minimum wage just 54 years ago then people would see the root of their economic frustrations in life and be much closer to starting the class warfare our society so desperately needs.i and others before me who have done the math have also figured out that the minimum wage workers of today are payed less than it cost to purchase and maintain enslaved people under chattel slavery. But since we have this illusory sense of choice, that we could just quit at anytime we are delusional to believe in our freedom under democracy (which is in reality class dictatorship) so from 1950 till today the share of wealth has gone from the top 20% having 10% of the wealth to the top ten percent having 66% and the top 20 having 74% while the bottom 60% have less than the 3 wealthiest men who collectively control $1,000,000,000,000 in assets.
The American working class have been robbed before their very eyes to the point where we are just glorified slaves. Many millennials snd gen z will have to work till we are to sick to do so or have to clock in on the day we expire. Many will never own a home snd have to hope that social security isn’t completely gutted in the next 25-50 years but i am not hopeful.
Have a good weekend regardless. Plan a boycott and some strikes and lets at least try and make things better than they are as dauntingly impossible as it may seem
Silver was used but gold was more valuable and sought after so this is the equivalent of saying that $5 bills were the main form of currency because a majority of people were too poor to have larger bills. The first record of Gold coins was in egypt circa 1200 bc and 600 years before silver coins became more common.
Gold backed currency was abandoned globally because of central banking dominance and since we’ve transferred to elastic currency weve seen hyper inflation in the usa that we are being lied about in regards to. Rent for a 2 bedroom apartment has gone from between $30-50 a month to $2200-2500 a month in just 54 years so please tell me how its a good thing to just print valueless trust me bro money out of thin air with nothing but the trade of a commodity that is burned for energy backing it. Also the petro dollar was a last ditch effort imposed by the isa with help from saudi royals and OPEC To ensure thst the us dollar wouldn’t tank even harder than it has due to ending the gold standard so we didnt have to make good on our promise to convert all us bank notes to gold upon the demand of any country or person who had the us reserve currency.
If gold backed currency was so bad then why was inflation before we abandoned the gold standard and started printing money faster than nudie magazines
Here is a quote on the gold rush inflation you speak of that says youre point is pretty much bullshit. This inflation was limited to gold mining towns and close by areas where some miners became huper wealthy and those loving around them sought to profit off of their newfound wealth by arbitrarily increasing prices. Wages went from $3-5 a day to upwards of $12-16
“Although the short-term impact of the Gold Rush included inflation and a reduction in the dollar’s purchasing power, the long-term benefits were significant. The wealth generated by gold mining helped stimulate investments in businesses and infrastructure, laying the groundwork for the industrial growth of the late 19th century. The broader U.S. economy eventually absorbed the increased money supply, and as production expanded, inflationary pressures eased.
By the late 1850s, the dollar’s value had begun to stabilize. The rush’s economic growth, particularly in the western states, helped balance the inflationary pressures of prior years. Wealth generated during the Gold Rush further contributed to the westward expansion and development of the economy, providing the financial foundation for future growth.
As gold reserves increased, the U.S. Mint had more flexibility to mint coins and issue currency. However, the increase in gold posed challenges in maintaining stable prices as inflation rose along with the expanded monetary base.
Despite this, the increased gold reserves eventually paved the way for greater stability. Gold became a cornerstone of U.S. monetary policy as the economy grew, providing the stability needed for continued economic expansion.”
The gold standard was a far superior economic model for currency than the current system which sees regular increased inflation that is intentionally downplayed by leading financial institutions in an effort to prevent fomenting societal unrest/ discontent and resulting socio-economic / political violence from the working class.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with going off the gold standard. It is based on a low housing supply due to excessive regulation and wealthy people buying property as an investment.
Look at this graph.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2497/historical-inflation-rate-by-year
See those wild swings between high inflation to high deflation? The economy is more stable off the gold standard because the government can respond to economic shocks more effectively.
Then why do basically all people, regardless of political stance, who study the economy for a living think you are wrong?
Economics isnt a real science it is a school of thought the purpose of which is to defend the mechanisms of exploitation and cruelty that are inherent and celebrated within capitalism. And it doesn’t matter what economists tell us on corporsre owned propaganda news outlets what matters is that wealthy people consider gold to be an inflation proof store of wealth and a hedge against inflation. When the price of gold increases the dollar weakens. Cpi is an inadequate measure of inflation because as i said earlier it does not account for the devaluation of a currency due to the increase in circulating currency supply. Are you telling me that tbe increaae in currency supply and the us debt increasing over 72 times in 54 years isnt right on the money with the increase in gold price? Are you that bad with basic arithmetic?
For the first 172 years of the US dollar as a standardized currency from 1799 till 1971 the price of gold was solid at $18-19 announce until after the great depression when FDR temporarily suspended the gold standard and made it illegal to hoard gold in bulk and bought up as much of the supply as possible at $18 an ounce before revaluing it at $35 an ounce. So thats a 94% fluctuation in 172 years compared to today in less than 33% of that time since 1971 its at 8200% and a months rent for a decent 2 bedroom in a decent area has always been around an ounce of gold.
And that wide swing shown in red on that graph was caused by the new credit based policies where stocks were sold to snyone with only 10% of the purchase price in liquid which was the main cause of the great depression. Pretty similar to the NINJA loans that fueled the MBS sub prime housing loan situation that wall street committed fraud to try to stave off before it crashed in 2008 an awful situation our economy still hasn’t recovered from. And you see that red stopped after FDR instituted quick action to save thebus dollar as i mentioned above. Another factor that caused the great depression was the stock buy ack which fdr outlawed and wasnt again relegalized till the reagan administration which normalized the blatant theft of surplus labor value and exploitation of the workers so that all the surplus value could ve funneled back into stocks to artificially increase the value of shares and trigger massive executive bonuses and shareholder dividends without adversely effecting the share value after those dividend payouts.
The Novel Prize committee says it is a science and I am more inclined to believe them than you.
As of 2024 the US holds 8,133 tons of gold. Germany, Italy and France hold just as much combined. The IMF holds 2,800 tons.
Stockpiling a resource decreases supply, which artificially inflates the cost.
You mean the Nobel Prize committee? The same people who gave Obama a war mongering neo liberal fascist the peace prize for all those peaceful drone bombings he ordered? Yeah they are really fucking credible, about as credibke as the ADL when they said elon musk didnt blatantly do a fascist salute in front of all the white nationalists sycophants at the Trump inauguration.
Economics isnt a real science, i just aced the first few quizes of economics on khan academy to see how much science is involved and my suspicions are correct. Econ is just bullshit that aims to solidify the ideas that free markets are good and have done such a great job of adequately distributing resources in a society and socialism is the devil so lets all just bend over and let billionaire central banking military and prison industry profiteers tell us what color the fucking sky is and ignore our basic senses.
Here is the basic reality, money isn’t real, its paper we all have been indoctrinated to believe in its value because it benefits the wealthy who wxert their capital to exploit large swaths of labor so they can live in opulent luxury at our expense. they use violence to enforce this system at our detriment, gold is real, silver is real, but silver is highly undervalued right now and has been for the last 25 years at least and gold is the only commodity that has proportionally increased in value when compared to the reckless over printing of currency and accumulation of national debt on the us dollar. Your arguments amount to “nah ah, the super credible people who tell us what to think don’t agree with you even though their actions support what you’re saying we should just trust our merciful aristocratic overlords and trust their plan for our dwindling future prospects and ignore the borderline austerity conditions in the usa today becasue so long as cheap consumer goods fill box stores and billionaires are buying more yachts then we can claim the stock market and subsequently the entire exonomy are booming never-mind the un affordability of rent and housing, decades of wage stagnation and 60% of workers living paycheck to paycheck with no emergency savings. Also the large stores of gold these governments and financial institutions have stockpiled solidifies my point, if the value of money was based upon the money itself and the trustworthiness of the government printing that money then they wouldn’t need to stockpile gold they would just print more money but its a fact that the more money you print the less value each bank note holds and the more the price of gold increases in perpetuity as the circulating currency supply increases.
Also less than 11 tons of gold you just mentioned out of the estimated 212,000 tons currently above ground is barely 5% of the supply, so this is not what is pushing the price of gold to balloon 8200% in the last 53 years. But keep on trusting central banking institutions who have defrauded entire economies multiple times with no consequences what so ever. Its like thinking the pack of hungry wolves outside your door are begging to be domesticated or thst you have a real interpersonal connection with the stripper you just paid $400 to grind over your jeans.
Jesus that is a gish gallop. TLDR
You can just say you’ve lost the argument and or given up instead of trying to exude superiority in your failed points by attempting to say too many words/ a verbose detailed argument somehow lessens the strength of my arguments. Its like saying einstein’s mathematical formulas were somehow wrong because there were too many variables and functions / too complicated couldn’t make sense of it 🤣
just say you give up and consider your arguments are just nonsense you’ve been conditioned to believe by people who would literally still own slaves if it were still legal (actually they still do in more ways than one) but if you believe what wall street economists tell the general public then you probably also believe that corporate news outlets are credible journalistic sources and the US is a bastion of true democracy which we spread across the globe using the friendly persuasion of a highly armed industrialized military apparatus.
Some of the best advice I ever heard was that if you can’t express your argument concisely, you don’t understand it well enough.
I have expressed my argument concisely you just keep moving the goal posts and clinging to the idea that institutions that have defrauded the American people as well as the world are trustworthy which is laughable. Also if you look hard enough you can find that these institutions are lying and occasionally say the quiet part out loud. This is a wall street owned legacy media outlet saying that for a family of four to have a comfortable life requires an income that equals about 60 to 95 ounces of gold annually depending upon which state that family lives in. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/04/20/the-income-a-family-of-4-needs-to-live-comfortably-in-every-state.html
But go ahead and keep believing the liars who have bought our political institutions and representatives. Who tell us that minimum wage would be around $24/hr if it had kept up with inflation since 1970. that is so laughable $24 an hour even before taxes is garbage and not even worth getting out of bed for. I used to be able to barely afford rent back in 2011 for a 2 bedroom in an ivy league college town it was $900/month at the time. The SAME apartment today is $2450/month so that $24/hour which is $960 before tax deductions is fucking garbage. The poverty line hasn’t been adequately adjusted in decades and federal minimum wage is 16 years without adjustment and it’ll be 20 years after this disaster of an administration sinks the country further into fascism. But i bet you also disagree that america is fascist regardless which party is in control even though as benitto moussolini said fascism would be more appropriately called corporatism since it is the consolidation of corporate power and the state.
We live in a society where the majority of people are totally blind and dumb to reality. The news actively undermines the best interest of the people and works to minimize any unrest/ discontent in the population with distractions and out right lies. They actively use psychological warfare against us and people like yourself just keep on parroting delusional nonsensical takes that everything is fine and people who are sounding the alarms are just over reacting. There is no left party in the usa there is a far right and a center right pretending to be the left. We live in a class dictatorship and any idea that the news outlets and financial institutions shaping the social discourse have any credibility is a farce.