“Real money” or just more fake money?
Robert Koasawli is famous for his statement, “Silver and gold are God’s money. Everything else is fake.”
The folks over at Paradigm put this chart out a couple of days ago:
Gold is more than $3000/ounce.
Remember that until 1934 or so, Gold was valued at $20/ounce.
It isn’t that gold is worth so much more almost a century later – it is that the dollar is more and more worthless. Other prices will soon “catch up” with gold. Consider a favorite analogy of mine. In 1930 a 5.5-ounce bottle of Coca-Cola cost a nickel, roughly a penny an ounce. That was 1/400 Oz Au. Today, a 20-ounce Coke costs $2.40 most places. That is 12 cents per ounce. But the equivalent of that 1930 nickel (1/400 Oz Au) today is an amazing 1/750 Oz Au – or $4 for a 20-ounce bottle. Yet we are getting that bottle for only 60% of that!
Wow, what a bargain we are getting!
Now there are many other factors involved: the economies of scale and technology all cause the price of a bottle of Coke to be reduced somewhat over nearly a hundred years. So, in real money terms, we enjoy very good prices.
The same thing happens when we look at things like gasoline and Diesel prices. And other things.
But the real point is that dollar inflation is killing us – that FRNs are fake money. By gold standards, we have galloping inflation. Wages and salaries cannot keep up with the cost of living: of buying not just luxuries like Coca-Cola but essentials like bread and fruit and veggies.
All courtesy of government, and not just Democrats. The GOP is in on it too – the money they make (not their salaries: that is a pittance compared to the money they rake in while in and then out of Congress and all the government agencies that they infest.
Source: https://freedombunker.com/2025/03/21/real-money-or-just-more-fake-money/
