VOCABULARY: The Cantillon Effect

Saturday, April 3, 2021

https://buff.ly/2Pnn5AE

How The Nation’s Central Bank Is Covertly ‘Nudging’ Americans To Accept Digital Money & The Great Reset – LewRockwell 

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The Cantillon Effect explains that money is first distributed to the financial classes, bankers, government, etc., and then the masses. As money ripples through the economy, its value is inflated away. The first people to receive the money do not experience the inflationary (loss of purchasing power) that the last people to get the money do.

The wealthy benefit from inflation as the value of their assets (property, investments) rise.  The poor benefit from deflation because necessities are cheaper to buy, effectively giving them what they perceive as a pay raise.

Also, in periods of credit expansion, the poor borrow much like receiving a pay raise.  For the wealthy, the stock market is their playground; for the poor, lottery tickets may be their only opportunity to get ahead financially.

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So why is the FED (Federal Reserve System) —

The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.

—, the Gooferment. Its politicians, and its bureaucrats pushing for inflation?

Cui bono?

The Gooferment gets to repay the “national debt” or the interest on that debt with “dollars” that are worth less.

Argh!

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HEALTH: Is this “anti-vax”? No, it’s just science, these are legitimate concerns.

Friday, April 2, 2021

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/no_author/alternative-newsthe-top-four-reasons-why-many-people-doctors-scientists-refuse-to-take-the-covid-vaccine/

The Top Four Reasons Why Many People, Doctors & Scientists Refuse To Take The COVID Vaccine
By Arjun Walia
Collective Evolution
April 2, 2021

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From what I see, the majority of people receive their information from mainstream media organizations, which are organizations that have strong ties to pharmaceutical corporations and governments, and are known for presenting one perspective that favours a particular agenda while completely ridiculing the other. They sometimes go as far as labelling another perspective as a “conspiracy theory” despite the fact that there is ample, credible evidence to support the claims of that perspective. Do people simply believe things because they feel that everybody else believes it too? What are the social and cultural implications of not being in alignment with the majority?

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1. A Lack of Trust In Government & Pharmaceutical Companies.

2. The Virus Has A 99.95 Survival Rate.

3. Some People Don’t Know How Safe And Effective The Vaccine Is

4. There May Be Protection From Infection

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At the end of the day, there are ample concerns about the COVID vaccine, its effectiveness, the safety of it in the short term and in the long term. Despite these concerns, the vaccine is heavily marketed as unquestionably safe and effective. A fifth category could have been added to this article, and that’s the ridicule and acknowledgments of other, cheap effective treatments that have shown to have a tremendous amount of success. It seems these treatments would have rendered the vaccine useless and unnecessary, but the vaccine is a multiple billion dollar product.

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I don’t think I am an “anti-vax” type.

That being said, I am very concerned about taking any vax; not just this WuFlu one.

I’ll take the Shingles, but not the Flu.

I’m trying to place the various WuFlu vaccines on this spectrum of effectiveness and safety.

Until I can, I’m not taking anything.

Argh!

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The worst new car fee is the destination charge – Roadshow

Friday, April 2, 2021

Destination fees are likely a nice profit center for carmakers, but I can’t say that definitively because there is little transparency about what goes into them or why they differ radically between makes and models. But I do believe shipping and dealer prep are as essential a part of bringing a car to market as conducting crash tests and should be folded into MSRP the same way. 

The worst new car fee is the destination charge – Roadshow

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Just another way to “defraud” the car buyer!

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GOLDBUG: TWO DOZEN REASONS WHY OWNING PHYSICAL GOLD IS IMPERATIVE

Thursday, April 1, 2021

https://goldswitzerland.com/why-buy-gold-when-there-is-bitcoin-tesla/

WHY BUY GOLD WHEN THERE IS BITCOIN & TESLA
March 24, 2021By Egon von Greyerz

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TWO DOZEN REASONS WHY OWNING PHYSICAL GOLD IS IMPERATIVE

Let me give people who are frustrated with the gold price the reasons why they shouldn’t be:

1. Firstly, physical gold is not bought for instant gains but as insurance and protection against a rotten financial system and constantly depreciating currencies.

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5. In relation to US money supply, gold is today at the same level as in 1970 when the gold price was $35 or in 2000 when gold was $290.

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20. Exponential deficit and debt growth combined with galloping money printing will inevitably destroy most paper currencies in coming years.

21. The major structural shortages of physical gold and a failure of the gold paper markets could make physical gold unavailable at any price.

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Yes, I am a goldbug. Aside from its beauty and simplicity, it’s the only asset without a counterparty risk.

When I consider the debt and deficit, I don’t understand how the USA doesn’t become like the Weimar Republic?  (You know where the children played with bank notes, bundled of notes were burned for heat, and some wag said: “Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”  (Yes, I know it was Milton Friedman)

When you consider the currently in charge politicians and bureaucrats, who want to raise taxes and create a wealth tax, what better way to “insure” your portfolio.

Remember in “beans, bullets, bandaids, and bullion”, gold is number 4. 

I won’t quibble if you add a fifth B — bitcoin — to the list.

Sigh!

Glad I won’t be around to observe or absorb the suffering.

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