Trump is pro-inflation: "you make a hell of a lot more money"

[Snowball]

https://thehill.com/business/5418770-5-ways-trump-has-shaped-the-economy-in-6-months/

Trump's greed is destroying the US dollar.

Inflation is projected to accelerate.

 

[CaptUSA]

[SPLIT TO: [SPLIT] DEI & inflation, etc.]

Inflation is projected to accelerate.

That may very well be the case. He's done a bunch to drive up inflation, but also some things that drive down inflation:

Upward pressure:
Tariffs
Government spending increases
Requesting rate cuts (If they happen, this would speed velocity)
Immigration enforcement

Downward pressure:
Tariffs can actually drive down demand in some cases
Deregulation and permitting cuts
Removal of DEI programs
Exiting climate nonsense
Downsizing of the federal workforce
Tax cuts (although, these were probably already baked in)

It remains to be seen how it all balances out or if he gets everything he wants. And not everything is about inflation - some of his policies may be good, even if they have upward pressures on price inflation.

From my perspective, though, the things that have downward pressure are mostly temporary while the things that exert upward pressure are permanent. So while it's possible this balances out in the short term, longer term seems ugly.

 

[Snowball]

Inflation is the life blood of oligarchs like Trump and his sponsors because it drives up the values of their assets. This is literally the only reason why Trump was able to overcome, with Rothschild support bailing him out in the early 90s, all his personal errors. Inflation enriches and solidifies the monetary value of all asset classes which can be bought in dollars.

Corporations of all kinds, including financial institutions and private offices, drive the consolidation of capital as it becomes manifest in the real world, as it pours from the spout - the bankers who own the Fed, and the bankers who are driving their new toy, cryptocurrencies.

They use this consolidation of capital to consolidate ownership of real assets on Main Street: commerce, real estate, retail, entertainment, etc.

Trump represents their interests. He is only pressuring other countries with his tariff scheme in order to get them to loosen their own protective tariffs, so that this group, of which he is a member, may get inside those countries and take over their native economies. The effect of increased exports on American consumers is inflationary. The American consumer now has to compete with global consumers for the same amount of goods and services. Since the supply is reduced by exports, Americans have to pay more for their own goods and services. This is especially true with commodities, but it also affects finished consumer goods.

As Trump also expands the military in new ways, such as the Golden Dome and drones, and the commitment of a worldwide empire, and the built-in competition with other global power centers for dominion, government expenditures are not going to be reduced. His cuts of certain agencies is not going to decrease debt because he pushes the inflationary, expansive agenda which consolidates power for the global financial elites. The integration of so-called "AI" is another major disruptive agenda, and will drive up energy costs and cost jobs, while also increasing the ability of the power structure to act against the population. His rapid, vigorous support of so-called "cryptocurrencies" and "stablecoins" is another major weapon in his war against the US dollar. Neither does tax cuts for personal billionaires do anything but drive inflation even more.

I could go on, but you get the point. By the way, General Flynn posted an interesting, but rather deceptive, or naive tweet.

Here's a quote from it: "We have BIG problems too. Big debt, big crime, big wars being waged, big health care costs, big gas prices, big food costs, you get the point. Trump is trying hard to make the system work, but it is still hard. I believe he is going to end up having to declare some type of national emergency at some point because of the vast and monumental challenges that we’re now facing and are being exposed as well as what is likely to happen in the near future."

Now, if that's not a load of B.S., I don't know what is. Notice how he is blind to Trump's responsibility for his own actions. Notice how he's already attempting to defend what he expects Trump to do -- national emergency. Notice how he acknowledges that "vast and monumental changes" are taking place, but doesn't identify Trump's role in those changes. Notice how he warns that he's heard of something that "is likely to happen in the near future".

I hope that more people can see what's really going on by now.

 

[nikcers]

He is breaking the rigged "valuation" machines.

We pay more to stabilize global market prices and other countries charge us higher prices because we can pay more.

Plus other countries are creating trading blocs so that they can monopolize the global financial markets that are only possible because the USA more pays to stabilize them.

So the USA is making 1 on 1 trade deals and making their trade blocs irrelevant.

 

[oyarde]

It is too late , it cant be saved. Spending cannot be reigned in and will not. MIT says youve got 15 years to prepare . Ive guessed as little as ten and to 20. A problem w/ many sides . GDP predicted by CBO in Jan to avg 1.8 next decade. GDP avg 1.9 2000 - 2024 , all very dismal and easily predicted because gov is to contraining to allow better growt. Only 62 percent workforce participation. Only one going up is inflation/ spending.

 

[ClaytonB]

Inflation is the life blood of oligarchs like Trump and his sponsors because it drives up the values of their assets. This is literally the only reason why Trump was able to overcome, with Rothschild support bailing him out in the early 90s, all his personal errors. Inflation enriches and solidifies the monetary value of all asset classes which can be bought in dollars.

In theory, an "ideal" inflation (e.g. doubling all accounts overnight) would have no effect at all, except that the numerical sticker prices of things would all increase pro rata. This shows that price-inflation, by itself, cannot actually change reality, it cannot enrich or even impoverish anyone.

However, real inflation is, of course, not "helicoptered" to all accounts, pro rata. Even stimulus checks, which are supposed to act like helicopter money are not even close to idealized monetary-inflation.

Monetary inflation (central bank monetary expansion) is nothing more or less than legal counterfeiting. Anyone can understand how a counterfeiter benefits at the expense of all other holders of the counterfeited money. The difference between the central bank and a private counterfeiter is that the private counterfeiter might pull off a few million dollars' worth of counterfeiting (ever) before getting caught and stopped by the cops. But the central bank counterfeits trillions of dollars per year. This is the ONLY difference between the private counterfeiter and the central bank: SCALE.

The harm that the private counterfeiter does to all holders of the counterfeited money, the central bank does on an absolutely industrial scale, and not just once, but month after month, year after year, decade after decade, century after century.

As soon as the private counterfeiter is able to pass his first sheet of Benjamins, he is suddenly a very wealthy man. If he's smart, the first thing he will do is figure out a way to ensure his operation cannot be discovered by the police and put to a stop. He needs to make himself look respectable and he needs to surround himself with an aura of legitimate industry. He needs to acquire a lot of friends by throwing parties to make himself popular and to ensure that everyone has a very high opinion of him. Eventually, he needs to identify his other potential competitors who might get him put out of business by running amateur operations that could tip the cops off to how the whole charade works.

Unlike business cartels which are inherently unstable, the cartel of private counterfeiters will naturally be stable and tend to coalesce into a single entity that cannot be assailed by the public police by any means. When it is finally ready to ascend to its final form, it must receive the blessing of the legislature itself, and this is done through the usual tricks of bribery and corruption. Now that the cabal of counterfeiters has the cover of official law, they are able to go from merely printing a few million dollars here and working overtime to launder the money to conceal its true source, to counterfeiting money on an absolutely industrial scale. And of course, this is precisely what they will do, and this is precisely what the Federal Reserve has done since 1913.

The main goal of the Fed since 1913 is to be "Too Boring To Fail". The Fed are the adults among the adults. They are boring beyond boring. Created by an act of Congress, they are a public agency in the maximum virtue-signaling sense of "public"... it's practically an act of act of penance to head the Fed (that is, this is how we are to perceive the matter).

In terms of its economic effects, monetary inflation simply transfers wealth from the mass of the public into the hands of the kleptocrats in DC. The mechanism by which this happens can be summed up in this statement: "Monetary inflation transfers real wealth from the late users of new money to the early users of new money". This occurs by virtue of TWO effects. First, when the government spends the principal, it is spending money that dilutes the total money supply and siphons the wealth of all other holders of dollars in precisely the same way that a private counterfeiter's funny money rips everyone else off. Second, when the commercial banks receive that newly "spent" money it goes on deposit on their balance sheets, where it then earns interest. I could easily become the world's wealthiest man without ever printing a single counterfeit bill, if only I were allowed to buy interest-bearing assets with rubber checks. If I could legally write rubber checks, then I could buy, say, 10 million dollars' worth of Berkshire Hathaway, earn interest on it for a year (probably a good $200k-$500k!), then SELL those stocks, and light the 10 million dollar check on fire, thus wiping my hands clean and saying, "See, I never counterfeited anything, I just 'borrowed from the future', as it were, and now the economy is $500k richer because of it!!) Of course "the economy", here ,is a euphemism for ME... I am the one who is $500k richer, and that increase in my own coffers has come at the expense of a very small price-inflation spread across all holders of dollars, no different than if I had just printed up $500k and deposited it in my bank account. In short, credit-expansion is just monetary-expansion with extra steps to make it seem more legit. Credit-expansion is fancy counterfeiting.

When we look at the economy from the standpoint of liquid cash savings, it becomes clear what the central bank really is. The central bank punishes all holders of liquid cash savings by continually siphoning away the value of liquidity from all holders of it. That's not a "conspiracy theory", that's one of the stated goals of the central bank. They're quite proud of this effect! Liquidity is choice-itself. The more liquid you make your position, the faster you can pivot from X to Y. The more illiquid your assets -- the more invested you are -- the longer your "reaction time" to changes in the market is. The central bank, however, has a literally infinite source of liquidity (its printing press). At any moment, at a snap of the fingers, it can make a trillion dollars -- or a quadrillion dollars, for that matter -- available to itself. Thus, the central bank always has infinite liquidity, it always has the ability to pivot the institutional inertia of its member banks from any market position, into any other market position, overnight.

Note that this relationship of the banking institutions to the rest of us poor schmucks in the economy (in respect to liquidity), is exactly the same as that of the prole under Marxism. The prole's "assets" are all illiquid -- he literally has no cash at all. Of course, even the assets he has, such as furniture in his apartment, does not really belong to him. (I recall reading that even the furniture in East Germany had a serial number on the bottom indicating its government stock serial #, a glaring reminder that everything was literally the property of the State.) Nevertheless, the Marxist Politburo always has plenty of cash, otherwise, it would not be able to trade overseas or do other necessary business. Thus, the real defining feature of Marxism is the complete de-liquidification of the masses (complete de-capitalization), and the coalescing of all liquidity whatsoever into the hands of the Marxist Politburo. Thus, we can now clearly see that the central bank is just Marxism in disguise -- it is Marxism-by-degree. Right here, in the "land of the free and home of the brave", in fact, it's the beating heart of your so-called "capitalist" economy!


END THE FED!

END MARXISM!

 

[acptulsa]

When?

Do you make more money after quitting and getting another job? After making the right investments? Do you make enough lots more money to maintain your lifestyle?

It's hogwash for the vast majority of people.

 

[nikcers]

When?

Do you make more money after quitting and getting another job? After making the right investments? Do you make enough lots more money to maintain your lifestyle?

It's hogwash for the vast majority of people.

"Did your grandfather take risks? I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves."

-The Gambler

 

[acptulsa]

"Did your grandfather take risks? I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves."

-The Gambler

 

[nikcers]

The supreme art of war is to win without fighting.

 

[acptulsa]

 

[acptulsa]

 

[Madison320]

That may very well be the case. He's done a bunch to drive up inflation, but also some things that drive down inflation:

Upward pressure:
Tariffs
Government spending increases
Requesting rate cuts (If they happen, this would speed velocity)
Immigration enforcement

Downward pressure:
Tariffs can actually drive down demand in some cases
Deregulation and permitting cuts
Removal of DEI programs
Exiting climate nonsense
Downsizing of the federal workforce
Tax cuts (although, these were probably already baked in)

It remains to be seen how it all balances out or if he gets everything he wants. And not everything is about inflation - some of his policies may be good, even if they have upward pressures on price inflation.

From my perspective, though, the things that have downward pressure are mostly temporary while the things that exert upward pressure are permanent. So while it's possible this balances out in the short term, longer term seems ugly.

Government spending probably accounts for something like 95% of inflation. Especially if you use the proper definition of inflation, which is an increase in the supply of money.

 

[Snowball]

They want to price everyone out of life so they can own it all then call all the shots

Forever. Permanently. Trump is a secret member of this conspiracy. 100%.

 

[acptulsa]

 

[ClaytonB]

Thanks for sharing. That is a nuclear statistic.

 

[nikcers]

Thanks for sharing. That is a nuclear statistic.

I think its the primary reason why Americans are unhappy.

The majority of people in our country are younger than 56 and are dependent and unable to provide for their basic need of shelter.

 

[acptulsa]

I think its the primary reason why Americans are unhappy.

And it advocates for more currency printing and more inflation.

Ergo, it wants Americans unhappy.

QED

 

[nikcers]

And it advocates for more currency printing and more inflation.

Ergo, it wants Americans unhappy.

QED

Well thats how everyone I know that achieved the American dream made it.

Turning off the economic engine of our country is a great strategy I guess for a small group of individuals to own the world though.

So I can really see why it would be so appealing to some.

 

[acptulsa]

Turning off the economic engine of our country

You mean by overregulating small business?