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Why the inevitable collapse is baked into your money

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  You don't need to be a crystal ball wielding psychic to see where humanities previous choices are pushing us towards. To figure out how we got to this point all you need is a history lesson. The collapse that's coming for the modern world won't start with a bang or a virus, in fact it has already started far before any of us were born. There's two decisions made in the past that make the inevitable collapse, well, inevitable: 1913, when the United States built a central bank on the European blueprint, and 1971, when money everywhere was cut loose from gold and became pure make-believe currency with a government logo stamped on it. Every dysfunction you see through your crisis rectangle, the wage gap, the debt spiral, the modern slavery in your supply chain, the planet slowly cooking, is downstream of those two dates. And Europe, fair warning, is not an innocent bystander in this story. In fact we invented the whole playbook.    Europe invented the money machine Here...