The Phantom Collapse: How Inflation and Liquidity Masks a Crumbling Empire

The Dollar’s Devaluation: An Engineered Theft Rickards is right about inflation being the quiet default—and Milton Friedman would've called it for what it is: taxation without representation. Inflation isn’t just an economic side effect; it’s the state’s preferred method of robbery. The same Fed that claims to fight inflation is the very institution printing trillions in fiat, handing it out like candy to corporate vampires while your dollar quietly bleeds to death in your bank account. Let’s not forget Friedman’s golden rule: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.” And today’s monetary phenomenon? A criminal racket, sanctioned by the Fed, administered by Treasury, and blessed by the Keynesian priesthood in D.C. Rickards talks about 4% inflation cutting your purchasing…