
Demystifying the Petrodollar Scheme with Alex Gladstein (WiM082)
The "What is Money?" Show
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Is the Gold Standard a War Time Tax?
Inflation itself is largely used as a war time tax. This gives an issuer the capacity to wage war beyond the confines of their own balance sheet. A, i think dadsaen on that point. If you look at history, every single war that was very inflationary well, g on world wer two viit nom a rackike. And this explains the impetus for all these things you're describing. The london gold pool. Ah, you know, we talked about the book off line, gold wars, by ferdinand lips. It goes through this coordinated geo political history to basically abolish the gold standard.
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