Unlike my other
New York Times best-sellers (
Empire of Debt,
Financial Reckoning Day,
Mobs, Markets and Messiahs), I have no plans on making this book available in stores or anywhere else online. It is solely for private use. Not for mass entertainment.
However, I do have a hardcover, first-run copy of this book set aside for the few people who take the time to read this letter. That includes you.
In fact, I’ll even offer you a free digital edition you can access immediately at the end of this letter.
But we’ll get to all that in a moment.
First, I need to tell you what I found as I studied this problem.
And the coming change to America it will cause.
I’ll also detail how my richest friends and I are already prepared. What worked. What didn’t.
And what you should do as well.
The Truth About America No One Wants to Tell You
The source of unrest today is not the free market, race, the 1%, or President Trump.
It is not due to a lack of money or some rich guy having too much money.
I’m talking about something far more fundamental.
…something that explains why:
- Our stock market is reaching record levels…yet record amounts are being withdrawn from U.S. funds. One fund has reported as much as $19.3 billion being pulled…
- Why so many Americans are being told they’re privileged…yet unemployment among American males is now worse than during the Great Depression…
- The typical U.S. family cannot raise even $400 for an emergency…and the last census recorded 110 million Americans receiving more or less permanent “welfare” assistance from the government.
- Home ownership is at a half-century low as fewer people are getting married than ever.
- And importantly, why we are now seeing violence erupt all over the country from small towns to college campuses…
You see, around 40 years ago, a change was made to America’s money system…
This change set in motion a sequence of events that is still unfolding today…
…one that I believe is already reaching a sudden and devastating conclusion for this country.
It might seem strange to you that a problem with our money could cause violence…
And yet, the role of money in our society is far more important than you think.
The founding fathers knew this very well. In Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution, they were very specific about what kinds of money the states could mint.
As John Adams said at the Constitutional Convention of 1787:
“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in the Constitution or Confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
The Founders knew that when money is manipulated…and shown to be unreliable…
…that trust breaks down. And with it tradition and cultural values.
We see the evidence for this all throughout history…even here in America…
In 1971, after inheriting a financial mess from Lyndon Johnson, President Nixon is forced to kill the old gold-backed dollar.
No longer backed by anything, the dollar starts losing value very quickly. People wake up to see their savings suddenly won’t last them as long as they had thought. Prices begin to soar.
The government tries price controls. Factories go silent due to strikes.
Protests in Philadelphia turn to riots. People wait for hours in gas lines out of fear that that there won’t be any the following week.
One woman recalls: “Everyone was on edge, trying to save a buck and alert to anyone else trying to cut a corner.”
As a teenager, she was swarmed by an angry mob one day at the gas station where she worked.
“It was like that Twilight Zone episode in which aliens turn off a town’s electricity, street by street, and eventually the confused and angry neighbors turn on each other. Several men barricaded the door to protect me, while a growing crowd milled around outside.”
Nowadays, people remember bits and pieces of what caused so much disruption. They remember the inflation. The high gas prices. The infamous “malaise.”
But most have forgotten what really lay at the root of that crisis...that it began with a breakdown in our money…
As one German philosopher from the late 1800s put it: “Is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties?”
A few decades later, his fellow Germans would find out first hand…
The year is 1922 and citizens of the newly formed first German republic have noticed something strange. Prices have doubled in the previous five months.
Protests spiral into violence. The public is divided among radical political factions. Citizens wear small symbols on their clothing to identify friends from foes.
“A ‘normal’ political atmosphere, in which arguments could have been exchanged with a certain calm, no longer existed,” as one author later wrote.
While the media downplays the unrest as “no reason for special concern,” small towns are terrorized by “red gangs” and cities are torn by riots.
The young attack the old and steal what they want. Women are forced into prostitution. Mass shootings become common place.
Another writer, Kurt Kersten, recorded the downfall as it happened:
“German culture, as much as it existed, is perishing… The middle class is worn out... one has only two choices: either slowly perish or join the [leftwing] revolutionary party.”
Is that so far from what’s beginning to happen in America today?
A website by the anarchist group “black bloc” (the same ones who smashed windows, threw Molotov cocktails at police, and set Berkeley on fire) asks for donations to “send reports to uprisings and rebellions in so-called North America.”
Another “resistance movement” lists 5,983 local cells spread across the country – and they’re not just confined to the coasts, either, as you can see…
The red dots are for upcoming “actions”, the blue dots are locations of the cells