I don’t understand economics all too well,
beyond what a sporadically employed writer can be expected to understand.
Having said that, I think that puts me in a
unique position to explain to you, in simple terms, what I see unfolding before
me in the world of currency.
The American dollar, shored up by oil and
its free access to the printing press, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, is
under enormous pressure. Despite assurances that all is well, and despite the
rising stock prices, insiders seem to think the dollar’s day is over. All over
the world, nations have started to use their own national currencies to trade,
which means that America’s middleman fees have been eliminated. In addition,
there’s the questioning of where the “safe haven” is, in reality. With the USA
printing 17 trillion dollars in the last decade, under the confident assumption
that its economy would always be the eternal safe haven, there’s an oversupply
of dollars. And what happens if you print too much money? Eventually, someone
ends up with too much of it. And that means whoever’s hoarding dollars is going
to see a serious dip in their stock when the dollar eventually plunges. Which
many American commentators seem to think has already happened—but is being
withheld from you for fear of what may transpire after this news comes out.
Insiders also seem to think the Feds are
not going to change their ways. Despite telling the world they are finally
going to quit their dollar printing habit, they will secretly continue to shoot
up with the greenback. This sets a dangerous precedent, because this means all
other nations (Japan, the EU, Thailand, etc) all want a hit of this good stuff.
This is known as QE, or “quantitative easing”, and basically it’s a fancy term
to mean that countries decide to print money even when their economies are not
going all that well. Easy money, however, is rarely easy—when all nations start
clamoring for easy cash, it means the initial nation who’d climbed up a bit above
the rest is now in the position of finding out its easy cash is worth the same
as before, because essentially everyone else has cottoned on and done the same
as them. As you can see, this is a game that has no ending.
So who controls the printing of money? It
appears that besides the Fed, there are a number of private banks able to set
this operation in action. In addition, there seems to be a secret cabal of
insiders, otherwise known as the Bank of International Settlement, that has
been telling countries since the end of Nazi Germany how much money each nation
can print. As you can see, this makes it easy for some countries to become
richer than the rest—if you are printing a trillion dollar a year just to run
your government’s expenses, and a lot of this is going to bailout private
banks, and those banks are selling stocks to private citizens, this means that
even when the stocks fall it doesn’t really matter because the government just
keeps printing more money to shore up the banks. This means crappy Silicon
Valley companies designing apps for head waiters, and crappy Hollywood making
films about frankfurters having an existential crisis, and crappy
military-industrial companies designing mosquito drones to torture political
activists at night, will never run out of funding.
US dollars were so good that in 2008 George
Bush was selling billions of worth of military crap to Saudi Arabia, where the
sheikhs happily bought up the hardware. In 2014, however, even the Saudis
seemed to have decided not to co-operate with the New World Order—allowing the
oil prices to fall, in essence, is a way for OPEC to destroy the petro-dollar.
In other words, people have realized that
the New World Order, headed by the US and supported by Europe and the rest, is
no longer a tenable way to run the world’s finances. Not to mention its
geo-political landscape, which has been riddled with one invasion after another
of sovereign countries, false-flag
operations, and torture and genocide that the US takes as a divinely entitled
right.
So how do we move forward, as a world
community, now that people realize that this way of managing the world finances
is no longer good enough?
The IMF and its SDR basket currency is a
bad idea, because again this is the same Western dominated model, where a
centralized authority decides on the value of currency.
I think therefore that whatever will come
from this moment is not a centrally controlled currency. What has to evolve is
a currency that is available to all countries, and that all countries are able
to control it, in a way that is fair and equitable, according to their economic
worth. I am unsure what the mechanisms of this will be, but it appears to me
that having a currency that is not tied to a national currency is the best
solution.
So lets call this new currency “The
Global.” And lets say that it is slightly less than the euro in value, and
slightly more than the dollar. It is available to the National Banks of all
nation-states, which will print this international currency alongside its domestic currency. All countries will print this new international currency, which will be used to
trade between different nations. The agreement of which country can print how
many Globals will be set by international authorities more efficient than the
UN. They will, after crunching numbers, decide each country’s economic worth
and its concurrent Globals.
Nepal, for instance, has no money to speak
of, but in the last decade it has exported almost all its youth to the Gulf
countries, which in turn supply the USA with oil. The Gulf countries are not
always good about paying their workers, which means in the last two decades,
these countries in all likelihood owe the Nepalis about a trillion dollars in
unpaid back pay. Now lets say this trillion dollars is the obligation of the
international community to repay-especially the countries that have been
consuming Gulf oil, and selling military hardware to the Gulf, and so on. So
when this international authority that regulates the Global currency comes into
operation, it has to factor in these non-accounted for currency transactions
from the last few decades—allowing Nepal’s government, in essence, one trillion
Globals to trade with other economies. That is just reparations for unpaid
labor. Nepal should also get a separate package for climate change harm done to
its environment and communities by oil-dependent economies. These two packages
would be added to the other Globals Nepal can print due to the size of its
economy. Ditto for India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and all those other labor
exporting countries which have seen great suffering and exploitation for little
gain.
To avoid African dictators and so forth
from stealing all the Globals from their people, we could introduce a model in
which the Globals can only be traded for certain goods and commodities, and not
others. Meaning that Globals cannot go straight from a dictator’s bank account
to the latest Lamborgini model or the latest Gucci bags—there will be certain
checks and balances in place to ensure the trade is within limits and that the
benefits of trading is shared, more or less, by the citizens of that country.
Perhaps a certain percentage of the Globals’s profits must be reinvested back
into health, education, social welfare, et cetera.
As we have all realized, the idea of
Western countries printing money and handing it out in dribs and drabs to Third
World countries to “develop” themselves hasn’t really worked out in the long
term. Nor has the neo-colonial model of rape and pillage of natural resources
in the peripheries to feed the center.
Now that I have explained my nifty little
concept of the Global for you, I hope some of you will take that into
consideration the next time a nation decides the IMF is the way to go. And by
the way, as someone beset by piracy and who has had her books and stories
stolen multiple times by Western publishing houses, I would be glad if you
could give me credit as the original source when the Global comes out.
Enjoy the last four months of the
greenback’s supremacy—I predict this is the last 4 months before the dollar
becomes just one currency amongst many others.
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