History Repeats Itself: Abandoning Sound Money Leads to Tyranny and Ruin; Help Us Reach Our Goal; Charting A Course To Self-Reliance
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History Repeats Itself: Abandoning Sound Money Leads to Tyranny and Ruin
“The current bout of inflation is the latest disaster in a string of disasters caused by government debasement of once sound money.”
“Money is one of the most misunderstood topics of our time, and we’re seeing the implications of this play out every day. To understand money, one first must first understand that human beings have always been incentivized to participate in exchange. If humans could not, or did not, trade, most people would die young from starvation, disease, or exposure to the elements.
The survivors would be left with an extremely low standard of living in a world in which none of us would want to live. This means that exchange is a necessary condition, not only for our economy, but for human flourishing.”
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Charting A Course To Self-Reliance
“Self-reliance in the 21st century is uniquely challenging because we've become overly dependent on globalization and financialization...”
“Self-reliance isn't the same as self-sufficiency. Even Thoreau on Walden Pond used manufactured tools and supplies sourced from afar. The basic idea of self-reliance is to reduce our dependency on long, fragile supply chains and the hamster-wheel landfill Economy of planned obsolescence and waste is growth consumption, and increase what we can do for ourselves and those we care about.
Self-reliance isn't going it alone, it's assembling trusted personal networks as a producer as well as a consumer, as a means of reducing the number of links in your personal supply chain and increasing local sources of life's essentials.”
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Thorsten Polleit:
[Also acts as an investment advisor. I have worked with Dr. Polleit regarding handling investments for our clients. - JRD]
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