Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Policy The Uniparty Is Only a Few Steps Away From Gutting the U.S. Dollar
The Heritage Foundation ^ | Feb 27 24 | EJ Antoni

Posted on 03/02/2024 1:26:56 PM PST by delta7

KEY TAKEAWAYS Biden’s unprecedented freezing of U.S. dollars owned by a foreign central bank has fundamentally jeopardized the currency’s hard-won reserve status.

Janet Yellen dropped a bombshell last year, casually admitting that not only is de-dollarization happening, but Americans should expect more.

At a minimum, it’d be multiple years of double-digit inflation like we’re used to seeing in third world countries. At worst, it’d be a full-blown Weimar Republic.

America’s political establishment has less respect for the U.S. dollar than our foreign adversaries.

That was made clear when Tucker Carlson recently interviewed the Russian strongman President Vladimir Putin, who clearly articulated how the uniparty in Washington is destroying America’s greatest strategic and economic asset—her currency.

Last year, led by the chairman and ranking member of the relevant House and Senate committees, a bipartisan and bicameral bill was introduced that would hand another $300 billion to the Ukraine, this time in the form of the confiscated U.S. dollars owned by the Russian central bank and the Russian people.

There are now renewed calls for this measure as both the budget battle at home and the war in the Ukraine drag on.

Not during the Vietnam or Korean wars or at any point during the height of the Cold War did America do this to the Soviet Union. U.S. statesmen understood then, as our adversaries do now, that the dollar’s reserve currency status is among our most important global assets, both economically and strategically.

>>> The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Dollar

This steadfast principled commitment facilitated our post-war expansion of influence over global affairs and commerce, directed investment to the U.S., and kept inflation at bay by parking dollars as reserves the world over.

Eager to demolish this foundation of our global presence and dam that holds back inflation, the Washington uniparty is rallying behind the next step to gut the U.S. dollar.

We warned on this site before how Biden’s unprecedented freezing of U.S. dollars owned by a foreign central bank has fundamentally jeopardized the currency’s hard-won reserve status. In fact, it’s a main factor now driving dozens of countries away from what they see as a dangerous and unpredictable United States—countries now including France and Saudi Arabia.

Of course, China is eager to exploit these fears and welcome countries into its rapidly growing BRICS anti-dollar bloc.

After the Biden administration spent months scoffing at the mere hint of de-dollarization, Janet Yellen dropped a bombshell last year, casually admitting that not only is de-dollarization happening, but Americans should expect more—in her words, it’s “only natural” for countries to flee the dollar since the world is big.

In fact, countries are not fleeing the dollar because the world is big, they are fleeing because Biden made them question the U.S. dollar by using it as a political football where countries must grovel and obey Washington or risk having their national patrimony frozen.

Nations who disagree with Biden on abortion, homosexuality, fossil fuel use, etc. also run the risk of seeing their dollar reserves taken away. As if on cue, the Biden administration has threatened sanctions against countries with anti-sodomy laws such as Uganda.

This asset seizure bill would dramatically up the ante. If the U.S. is willing to not just freeze, but actually hand over a nation’s entire dollar reserves to another country, it confirms the worst fears of any country questioning whether they can count on the dollar or the U.S. at all.

>>> “Woke” Sanctions and Countries Abandoning the Dollar Will Ruin the World, Not Just U.S.

As more nations lose confidence in the dollar, they will sell their dollars. If enough countries do this, those trillions will come flooding home to America—essentially 70 years of deficits pouring in almost all at once.

This tsunami could set off an inflation the likes of which we haven’t seen in a century. Imagine the last three years of price increases put on steroids, amphetamines and covered in nicotine patches.

At a minimum, it’d be multiple years of double-digit inflation like we’re used to seeing in third world countries. At worst, it’d be a full-blown Weimar Republic replacing wallets with wheelbarrows for carrying around currency.

Such an economic catastrophe would, of course, take America off the world stage, not by choice but by necessity. The uniparty would have made their virtue-signaling gift to the Ukraine at the expense of America’s very standing as a world power.

The naïve calls for currency manipulation are a defiling of the dollar’s sanctity and an assault on people’s property rights. If the uniparty in Congress and the Biden administration push the issue much further, it will mean a long walk off a short pier into an ocean of misery for the American people.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 100000; 90000; currency; dedollarization; dollar; dollars; freezing; freezingdollars; inflation; nonbreaking; propertyrights; reserve; tuckercarlson
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last
To: elpadre

It’s beyond repair.


21 posted on 03/02/2024 3:21:28 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: PghBaldy
It is amazing how evil and stupid our leaders are. They will make a difficult future possibly existentially harmful to our system of government.

They fear the big cheat may not work again this time and Trump is likely to get back in.

The plan to leave him a nation in ruins and ash.

22 posted on 03/02/2024 3:38:48 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: delta7

I don’t think people have any idea how catastrophic it would be if the dollar lost its’ pre-eminence. We are well on that road and the pricks in charge will let it happen if they can keep power,


23 posted on 03/02/2024 3:49:18 PM PST by gibsonguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: delta7

Once the politicians partied-up the debt to unpayable levels, this result - debasing the currency to keep the party going a couple more hours - became inevitable. Politicians always do this.

It’s something of a flaw in the American system as originally created…John Adams pointed it out…it is a system only workable in a fundamentally moral society, with a fundamentally moral population. Instead, today, America elects predominantly psychotic and sociopathic people - the worst characters in all of society - to be its elected “representatives”. This was an almost certain result.


24 posted on 03/02/2024 3:50:36 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (We have not yet achieved peak crazy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: delta7

Dollar death 98,324-

prepare oneself.


25 posted on 03/02/2024 3:55:11 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: delta7

So far the Dollar is the only game in town. The Euro is socialist. So it default, the Dollar is the reserve currency. Other countries are complaining. But it’s not going to happen overnight. So far our economic policies are superior. They’re saying Brazil is the country of the future. But they’ve been saying that since the ‘70s. So I haven’t seen anyone step up to challenge the Dollar. China is going to self-destruct.


26 posted on 03/02/2024 4:00:35 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Thunder90

The Communists have would interpret that as an act of war. Therefore, it won’t happen.


27 posted on 03/02/2024 4:07:38 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: gibsonguy; All

“. I don’t think people have any idea how catastrophic it would be if the dollar lost its’ pre-eminence. We are well on that road and the pricks in charge will let it happen if they can keep power, “


The dollar as the international currency is all that keeps the DC Globohomo Regime afloat.

They can print and borrow without inflation or devaluation because of international demand for the dollar: central bank reserves; Eurodollar borrowing; foreign exchange transactions

If international dollar demand goes away, the USA will be exposed to its massive trade and budget deficits, and it will have the same inflation / devaluation as other highly indebted Third World countries.

If DC can’t borrow and print, they won’t be able to fund the Federal gov’t at the current level, all their leverage will be gone, and that will be it for the current Regime.


28 posted on 03/02/2024 4:14:38 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: delta7

its the best thing to happen for the Uniparty...would consolidate the dictatorship they’ve been cooking up for us


29 posted on 03/02/2024 4:15:48 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

The Euro was created for the sole purpose of taking down the dollar and barely left a dent.

It is going to take-the Euros, Asians and BRICS cooperating-something that is about as likely as Biden becoming mentally competent again.

I don’t think the economics are a peril. IMO the real peril are obviously rigged elections, political persecutions and other tyrannical things eroding the underlying trust.


30 posted on 03/02/2024 4:39:49 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: delta7
Still waiting for a Zeeper to pipe in...

image host

31 posted on 03/02/2024 4:41:10 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: elpadre

The Cleansing, when it comes, will be Old Testament in scope and nature.


32 posted on 03/02/2024 4:42:44 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

The Mark of the Antichrist will come.

Better warn people now because the day will come when referencing the Bible showing pictures will not be allowed.

And suppression of the Biblical truth will be everywhere.


33 posted on 03/02/2024 5:07:01 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

True. I’m glad we were forced to memorize Scripture since we were toddlers. There will come a time when having Bibles will be taboo, so having a lot of it in your brain’s hard drive will be important.


34 posted on 03/02/2024 5:27:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: MayflowerMadam
I keep trying to pump it out there

New people are see the Word nearly every day - these things count I.P. addresses not views - so at LEAST the number counts people - could be more if they were showing it to others.


35 posted on 03/02/2024 5:53:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: MayflowerMadam

36 posted on 03/02/2024 5:54:53 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: MayflowerMadam

Click on this picture above - had to separate the comment - was on the other phone with my pastor

That’s the actual (minimum) number of people who have seen that picture (lower left)


37 posted on 03/02/2024 5:56:49 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

>Click on this picture above - had to separate the comment - was on the other phone with my pastor

That’s the actual (minimum) number of people who have seen that picture (lower left)<

I clicked on the pic and the pic I was taken to has no numbers on the lower left.


38 posted on 03/02/2024 6:06:09 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: SaveFerris

Almost 90,000. That’s great.


39 posted on 03/02/2024 6:14:33 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: bimboeruption

You may have to push the picture up depending upon your screen size

It will scroll up

The numbers are there I just looked again

God bless


40 posted on 03/02/2024 6:19:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson