Posted on 12/22/2025 7:13:38 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
When the U.S. dollar loses its monopoly on pricing the world’s critical resources, Americans’ purchasing power weakens
The dollar losing monopoly power is a slow leak, not a blowout. But slow leaks still leave you flat.
If the 21st century runs on anything besides oil, it runs on African rocks.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
The dollar is a ponzi scheme and by its nature devalues.
China is on the way down. If the US sticks with the fundamentals, they can run the clock out on China.
However, that requires the US to be just as patient.
Bkmk
I read this article and you really need to do some IN DEPTH looking into the actual fiscal stability of the Chinese nation itself. They are not in a position to take on entrenched banking system’s of the world. Any yuan backed deals are shaky at best and the Chinese are only on paper solvent by any means. Their whole country is upside down and their economic stability within their own borders are manipulated and forced at the end of gun barrel.
Yup. But the West is addicted, and the time is already past, such that only major repair will work. We are about 4 percent of the world's population, and our manufacturing has been offshore for too long. Time to make and profit within these borders. Which means dumping "our idiotic leadership who are intentionally devaluing the US dollar."
Didn't read the remainder of the paywall article, though, because Market Watch wants some dollars. A wee bit of irony, rather like today's gold sellers, who want liquidity today. Forecast, "clever" China's real future opposition are "clever" Asian nations, India and Africa, which won't remain shackled to the Belt and Road game.
This nation can be far more autarkic than "our idiotic leadership" allows it to be, because if we were more self-sufficient, those international middlemen would lose their grip.
Destruction of the dollar wouldn’t have anything to do with Fed.gov $37 Trillion in debt, would it?
As if our own corrupt government hasn’t destroyed the dollar fast enough
A Hershey bar that once cost 5¢ is now around $2.00.
A gallon of gas that once cost 27¢ is now around $3.00
A $4,000 car is now $50,000 to $100,000
A $10,000 house is now $500,000
“China might be blamed for it but it’s our idiotic leadership who are intentionally devaluing the US dollar”
Trump is an idiot?
I think not.
A lot of Chinese money gets spent on propaganda.
China is on the way down. If the US sticks with the fundamentals
....and no, Stablecoins will not fix the huge problem.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-surpasses-us-treasuries-first-203442334.html
“Gold Surpasses US Treasuries for the First Time in 30 Years...”
MarketWatch is very good for objective data: stock prices, volumes, charts, ETF holdings, payouts, etc.
Any narrative they publish is overwhelmingly anti-MAGA, anti-Trump, and pro-Democrat, pro-Globalist.
Every time interest rates are reduced, the dollar almost always loses value. I guess there is more devaluation to come.
Lowering interest rates always increases inflation....raising rates fights inflation.
The rise of PM’s always signals financial calamity ahead. Gold is the canary in the mine. Historic...calamity...ahead...
Gold Price Performance USD
Change Amount %
Today +92.01 +2.12%
30 Days +244.65 +5.97%
6 Months +960.57 +28.42%
1 Year +1,728.59 +66.19%
Change Amount %
Today +1.71 +2.55%
30 Days +16.51 +32.61%
6 Months +30.90 +85.28%
1 Year +37.50 +126.53%
The entire world’s paper currencies, bond markets, etc.are all signaling mayhem.....this PM Bull market is just warming up. It started in 2023, prepare to prosper beyond imagination.....( the last two years have been very, very, very good)....remember just one thing:
” Paper is poverty”.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1788.
Every time interest rates are reduced, the dollar almost always loses value. I guess there is more devaluation to come.
That said, I am puzzled when everyone is screaming about rocketing prices....if measured in Gold and Silver, prices are the cheapest they have been in 40 years! ....and declining.
Pricing the cost of living in PM’s gives me a big smile....
“A $10,000 house is now $500,000”
My first house, 1973, I paid $10,000. It had two bedrooms, 700sf, one bath, no garage, no A/C (in Texas!), a small lot, single pane windows.
Today’s $500k house in that same area is one heck of a lot better than that!
Agree. He is the only public figure to have started talking about China's devaluation and manipulation of currency as early as his 2015 campaign, if not earlier.
People made idiotic YouTubes about how often Trump said “CHY-NAH!” apparently without paying any attention to why else he was saying it.
Articles I can’t read are a waste of time.
The historically notorious way to eliminate government or royal debt is to devalue the currency.
When princes are learning to be kings, Devaluation 101 teaches the will be kings the various ways to eliminate the onerous debt that has somehow accumulated. It has been that way for ever.
King Louis XVI did not comply, choosing to starve his French people. He lost his head for not applying the lesson. Even today, our intrinsically valueless coins have milled edges, a throwback to the days when precious metal would be carved away .
In an era of disagreement with trading pardners, a weakened US$ supports exports and results in jobs. The decrease in the debt as a result of the devaluation is borne by the bond holders who revceive $$ that will buy less than those at the time the bonds were purdhased.
So, devaluation not only is not totally bad but in fact has several benefits
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