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In a nutshell, the bankers have been handing out one loan after another, in order to substitute for the industrial capital’s flight to Asia: The West’s productive base has been shrinking for quite a while now, but the loans handed out out by the bankers have been masking this uncomfortable truth for all these decades So, the multinationals have been getting richer and richer by exploiting the -massively underpaid- Asian workforce, and the banks became bigger and bigger (they are now “too big to fail”, and Goldman Sachs’s CEO even considers himself as doing God’s work – talk about hubris).

But the economy reached a point where the Western worker simply couldn’t pay for his mortgage (that’s a bit of an over-simplification, but you get the point). So, now the banks are in trouble as well, because if they can’t collect the money they were supposed to collect from the recipients of those loans, they are bankrupt (ALL of them). Let’s not forget Lehman’s collapse, not to mention the hundreds of other (smaller) banks that have gone bankrupt in USA over the last four years.

But, as we all know, most banks are being rescued via your -and my- money. But the banks need a lot of money. Well, I know that they have already received huge bailouts, but that’s not enough. Banks are failing in Europe (now it’s the Spanish banks, then Greece again, etc) and in USA, stocks are going down, and it seems like everything is about to collapse.

But guess what – no matter how much the banks need, money can be printed in today’s economic system – and they will.

States all over the world have been printing money for quite some time now, and they continue to do so. Savings the banks is more important than preserving the value of their currencies, so…they will inflate these currencies. And as more and more people realize this, these currencies will hyper-inflate, as noone will want to trade (“loss of confidence”) in a currency that keeps losing value compared to gold, the only thing that will remain stable, as it always does.

[By the way, did you hear about China and Japan’s deal to trade with each other in their own respective currencies, instead of using the dollar? Or maybe about China’s deal to buy oil from Iran in exchange for yuan, instead of dollars? Oh, and guess what, China and Russia are no longer buying a lot of US bonds, are they? They are however buying gold…]

As for the workers, printing money is a great way for the ruling class to stealthily lower their wages, making them more “competitive”. After all, they do have to compete against the dirt-cheap Asian labor-force, don’t they? So, they only way to go forward, according to our rulers, is for us to become really poor, and for them to receive huge bailouts, making them even more powerful than they already are. This is the only way they will return to the West for investments – until the workers accept “modern serfdom”, the capitalists will simply let them starve. Hunger will take care of the rest. And since our rulers are already doing God’s work, they could even declare themselves to be Gods, like the Pharaohs. And why not? Their will is our command, isn’t it?

But this process of debasing the currency has to be completed “one step at a time”. If they print everything at once, everyone will be on to them, and things will get out of hand. So, they first let the stock market almost crash, and then they “save the day”, by printing more and more money. This has already happened a lot of times, and it will probably continue to happen in the future, in both USA and in Europe (Europe is an even more complicated case, since it is a monetary union of many different States: Germany is letting everyone else crash, and only then they allow the ECB to print money (in order to save the German banks among others). But before Germany agrees to money printing, they always hold a conference, where they propose a few new treaties, that give them more and more control over their fellow eurozone members protectorates. So, it’s a bit more political in the eurozone compared to the situation in USA, but the economics of it are pretty much the same, and the ECB will also print money sooner or later, and one way or another).

https://whataboutmarx.blogspot.com/2012/06/gold-and-jobs-report-if-you-only-knew.html

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