Background: Understanding the global financial system

WhiteWolf

Wolf Mage
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#1
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...epping-stone-towards-economic-new-world-order

I think there is a fair amount of speculation in this article about the early history of the BIS - Bank of International Settlements. BUT, I've been aware since about 2010 that things like central banks, the IMF and World Bank are all toadies (and fall guys) for some entity that is behind the scenes pulling strings, with the authority to make decisions that (top down) roll over the economy like a giant steamroller. The BIS has always been suspect #1 in my mind.

So when I talk about the Western Financial System vs the BRICs - and report the doings that may look dry and unimportant and too far above most our lives to care about - what I'm watching is how this Western system just might get hoist on it's own petard. Clinging to status; and status quo... is the opposite of adapt and survive. What the BIS is announcing is an adaptation - but beware: the ONLY ones who benefit from that are at that rarified level.

The only thing that is constant in life - is CHANGE. And it is hubris to think that the USD can remain reserve currency or that the Fed Reserve is all-powerful throughout the world. The real question (for me) is how best to weather the change.
 

WhiteWolf

Wolf Mage
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#3
This is one of those topics I periodically obsess on; trying to look at all the angles and how I can best preserve what I have to pass on to the kiddos later.

So, I am converting fiat dollars into something tangible, as many ways as I can think of that will be of great value after this rigged game all blows up.
 

WhiteWolf

Wolf Mage
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#5
I got a long mental list of "tangibles" that right now are (relatively speaking) cheap; that will be worth their weight in gold when the edifice crumbles it's last bit of dust. Things like nails, screws, needles, salt, sugar, steel, etc. Anything mass produced now will be salvaged & valuable later. Steel wire.
 

240Geezer

Old dude with a ‘tude
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#6
Not sure why everyone is so down on the dollar. It’s backed by us, and when I say us I mean you and me. By the US as a whole mighty country (cough, empire) that continues to lead the game of musical chairs.
What currency is better? If so why don’t countries run to it?
At the end of the day everything is a house of cards and even the shrewdest investors cannot predict the future.