November 27, 2025
Writes Bill Madden:
Rising prices are the result of inflation which is caused by increasing the money supply in excess of the goods and services available in the marketplace. Surplus budgets cause the economy to contract while deficit budgets stimulate economic expansion. Since we are controlled by very wealthy families owning most of Corporate America’s stock, we have enjoyed mostly deficit budgets since the end of WW II and, as a consequence, the wealthy families have enjoyed healthy quarterly profit distributions.
When we have an economic contraction, many assets like homes, automobiles, etc. are lost to the lenders via bankruptcy on loans created from nothing like our $38 trillion national debt. It has been alleged that the Great Depression was engineered by the wealthy owners of our country by flooding the economy with easy money during the “roaring twenties” and then tightening the money supply too much too soon resulting in the economy tightening too much. Whether engineered or not, many people lost many assets on loans created from thin air.
Our Constitution is clear as to whom should control our money (our fiat currency, actually). Whenever an institution like the Fed owned by people with an interest in free asset accumulation is provided an opportunity to manage anything where mismanagement is far more profitable than good management, the institution will most likely engage in mismanagement. No matter the true cause of our many problems, the people always pay like in 2008 when we bailed out the gigantic gambling losses incurred by the banking industry.
Please visit: www.shadowstats.com and, under Alternate Data, learn the actual rate of inflation.
See here.
