Inflation, & Precious (Digital) Metals

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Say goodbye to buying power.

In this barbell economy, the people in the middle are the ones that get stretched.

Do you feel it?

Thanks to inflation, your buying power is less and less every day. I used to accept inflation as a natural fact. It’s just a low-grade thing that cooks below the surface of the economy, and is a part of living in a modern western semi free-market economy.

But that’s not the entire picture.

Inflation is all over the news… and the numbers don’t lie. Inflation is up 37% in the past 10 years. Your dollar has 72 cents of buying power, in 2015 numbers. My personal grocery budget confirms this… what used to be $650/month is now over $900/month. You would think that we would be in a crisis, but the economy keeps limping along.

It makes you wonder… what’s the alternative to dollars?

The answer: things that grow in value because they’re scarce, and can’t be produced willy-nilly.

What got my attention on this topic is this feature-length film that has amassed 1.5M views so far, titled: God Bless Bitcoin.

Turns out, inflation is a lever that elites pull in order to keep the middle in the middle.

Now look – I’m as much for entertaining conspiracy theories as the next guy, but this one is pretty cut and dry. When executive orders are written, stimulus packages are passed, digital deposits are made, checks are mailed, and dollar bills are printed… all you have to do is follow the trail and it leads right to the people in charge.

(or as both Hillary and The Donald said, “follow the money”)

The people in charge of the rules make these specific decisions to devalue your dollars. And that keeps you where you’re at (or less), unable to get ahead.

As Dan Aykroyd quipped in the cinematic comedy classic Tommy Boy, “what the American people don’t know, is what makes them the American people.”

So that leaves you with a few options in order to hedge against inflation, all with the same theme and goal. Invest in resources that are scarce, not reproducible, that have an established market full of constant demand, and that you are (or can be made to be) knowledgable in.

Examples:

• Stocks in good, stable, healthy companies (bonus if they pay dividends)

• Crypto currency like Bitcoin

• Precious metals like gold and silver

• Cars, real estate, and really any other thing that fits the criteria above.

The important thing is to be aware of what’s really happening here: markets are being manipulated right in front of our faces… and investments in scarce resources are the only tactical response to inflation of fiat currency.

Give that movie a watch, and invest wisely!

P.S. – Don’t pinch pennies… build a profit machine.

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