Merica vs the World

The Trouble with Made in America

Kalian Osborn Season 2 Episode 13

“Politicians will, 100% of the time, everywhere always and forever steal from your future to improve theirs.”

Quick History of Dollar Destruction 

  • 1913 - Federal Reserve Established 
    • Central Banks LOVE consolidation, currency devaluation and asset appreciation
  • 1933 - Executive Order 6102
    • FDR demands privately held gold be turned into the Federal Reserve 
    • buys it for $20/ounce
    • promptly changes value to $35/ounce 
    • thus devaluing the dollar by creating money via executive fiat 
  • 1944 - Bretton Woods 
    • USD as Reserve Currency 
    • backed by gold 
  • 1971 - Nixon removes dollar peg to gold at $35/ounce 
    • It’s fiat time! 

“Politicians will, 100% of the time, everywhere always and forever steal from your future to improve theirs.”

Me, 2025 

The Trouble with Made in America 

Fiat Currency + Reserve Currency Status + Politicians = lol you’re doomed. 

  1. Money printing has a 100% ROI…for a while 
    1. why build cars when you can print money? 
    2. Print money → offshore production → use USD like a hammer 
  2. Eventually money printing causes inflation 
    1. which drives interest rates up domestically 
    2. why invest in an auto plant when the government pays 7% risk free? 
  3. Inflation Kills Middle Class (we are here) 
  4. Modern Monetary Theory 
  5. War 
  6. End of Empire 

That’s it that’s all I’ve got. 

Live Free, 

Kalian