Tag Archive for: The Trust Game

The system tends towards consolidation. Digital currency emerges, and a choice becomes evident: a coin that represents absolute control minted by a central authority, or a decentralised coin whose value is volatile, even manipulated, and increasingly pressured to be domesticated.

Behind the looming housing crisis and ensuing global contagion were attempts to empower the Federal Reserve with enormous and almost unfathomable controls over the economy.

A deregulated derivatives market looms over the globalization era, making the next crisis inevitable. The tech bubble, terrorism, war and fraud foretell the demise of the dollar.

People suffer under high interest rates, as Fed Chair Paul Volcker fights inflation; meanwhile, hints of a “Phoenix” global currency emerge as exuberant markets crack, and a "plunge protection team" works secretly to prop them back up.

Major central bank gold transfers precipitate WWII, fueling tragedy and destruction, while cataclysm re-emerges as a world ordered and denominated in dollars. Exit gold.

In the tumultuous 1920s-30s, depression set in; FDR seized power and gold; bank functions were nationalized; dollars rebuilt Europe; and the stage set for the next world war.

The secretive scheme for the newly born central bank was a means to an end, for nine months later would come the Great War... creating a global superpower operating under the reigns of those who conceived it.

What is torn asunder during the Civil War is soon rebuilt under powerful titans, while repeated panics drive hysterical populations into the arms of a new central bank.

As liberty changed hands in the new world, its price in freedom weighed heavily. 

Divesting from absolute monarchy, people reinvest their trust in a new power.