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I previously produced a chart like this one below. There I showed the US Federal Reserve Liabilities normalised to 1914 dollars. This has the effect of visually amplifying the massive currency creation around the World War I and World War II. It does not change anything but puts them all into the same dollar value terms and so we are comparing

What Is Money? Who Controls It? Gold is money! Silver is money! Everything else is credit! J. P. Morgan famously said this in his testimony before Congress in 1912: “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” J. P. Morgan was the founder of JPMorgan Chase & Co., an American multinational financial services company headquartered in New York City.

As the Austrian School economists know full well, inflation distorts price signals unevenly. It may be tempting to try to filter out inflation from any given good or service to find its real price had the currency supply never been inflated in the first place, but this is impossible given the uneven effects. Inflationary effects on prices cannot

The world since 1900 has experienced two major world-encompassing wars. Wars cost a lot of money, and countries—even if they were once on a gold standard—usually start printing massive amounts of money to finance their wars. This fact can be seen in the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) liabilities, for which data is available from the time of