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Here’s How To Cash In As Rome Burns

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Table of Contents

• Here’s How To Cash In As Rome Burns

• “Forget AI” Says Reagan’s #1 Futurist

• Three Things To Know Before We Go…

• Mailbag

On Friday, I explained why the government’s consumer price index (“CPI”) figures are lies. 

Today, I’m going to show you how they’re defrauding all of us. 

It’s not hard to figure out. Just put yourself in their shoes. How would you defraud your creditors, if you had a printing press? 

That’s right, you’d print whatever it takes to keep the charade going. You’d also do anything to control the media narrative away from these unpleasant facts… like say… hosting UFC fights on the White House lawn.

In Rome, it was bread and circuses. Today it’s welfare and UFC fights. Human nature doesn’t change. 

Inflation has always been the bridge between what the politicians promise (everything) and what they can actually provide (nothing). 

But there’s a problem. America’s politicians told the taxpayers that most of their taxes were “contributions.” They said these “contributions” would be invested by the Social Security Administration and used to pay out benefits to retirees. 

That was all a lie, but to make it seem real, in 1975 the government promised to index these benefits to inflation. In fact, these cost-of-living-adjustments (“COLAs”) are mandated by law to happen automatically, every year. 

The government owes Social Security more than $100 trillion. Even small amounts of inflation would create vastly more debt. But, as I showed you last week, we know that the actual value of the average Social Security monthly benefit has fallen by more than 50% since 1975.