Inflation, why should I care?

Often referred to as The hidden tax, and for good reason.

One of the most common terms you will hear on the news or in day-to-day life is inflation. But what is it? The meaning of the word inflation has been manipulated in recent years; it’s now referred to as the rise in the price of goods, but if you were to look up the word in an old dictionary, you’d see it was described as the inflating of the monetary supply by central banks printing money, which they do by lending to governments in exchange for bonds.

The definition of inflation

The ‘new’ definition of inflation

Government issued Bonds

Bonds are basically a certificate guaranteeing they will pay the bank back with interest. Governments have no ‘money’ of their own, so these bonds are actually guaranteed by the taxpayer, which is why, when governments attempt to stimulate the economy by pumping in billions of pounds, dollars, or any other currency depending on the country, they soon need to invent even more new taxes, and the existing taxes are raised to pay back not only the principal, but also the huge amount of interest charged by the banks on the currency created from the new debt. The effect of this inflation and other factors is that even more of the currency is now required to exchange for the goods, the currency has less value because there’s more of it, therefore the prices increase.

The creation of new currency from debt isn’t stopping anytime soon.

As you can see from the historical chart, wars are awfully expensive and require a lot of new ‘money’ to be created to pay for them. Using this US chart as an example because the dollar, or what is now the Federal Reserve Note, is the current global reserve currency. The global reserve currency is the currency at the time that all other currencies are pegged to, in an attempt to stabilise currency exchange for global trade.

We shouldn’t look at it as the price of gold going up, rather the purchasing power of our currency going down

Throughout history, inflation has risen but then returned to a stable level, such as during and after the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, WWI, and WWII. But during these periods, the Dollar was backed by gold, which kept the monetary supply in check. All new money created needed to be backed by gold, and as gold is limited in supply, the paper money couldn’t exceed the amount of gold backing it. During WWI and WWII, gold was moved from other countries, mainly the UK, to the US in exchange for goods and to pay for the war effort. This resulted in the US having the bigger physical gold reserve and was a major factor in the UK Pound losing its reserve currency status to the US.

This section is taken from, and links back to shadowstats.com

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Alternate Inflation Charts
These CPI charts reflect our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980. In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living.

With the US now flush with physical gold, it became the reserve currency, and all other currencies were pegged to the Dollar as the Dollar was stable due to its being backed by gold. However, gold is honest money, and banks and governments don’t like to be restricted by honesty honest money, so in 1971, the US came off the gold standard and the Federal Reserve Note became pure fiat currency (not MONEY backed by gold). From that day on, governments printed taxpayer-backed bonds to give to banks in exchange for unbacked currency notes, and banks have created Trillions of Pounds, Dollars, Euros, Yen, and every other currency from then on and have been charging tax payers Trillions in interest for this fake money.

The central banks and governments continually manipulate the official rate of inflation they use so it always appears to be lower than it is, they do this using Hedonics, substitution, weighting, shrinkflation and others. The rate they state has no bearing on reality and the rise in prices experienced by the average person. The official UK inflation rate in October 2020 is 0.7% / in the US it is 1.18% / in the EU it is -0.3%, how does this compare to the rise in the cost of your everyday purchases for food, fuel, rent and utility bills?

Almost all respected economists (who are not on the banking or government payroll) agree that the real rate of inflation is closer to between 7% and 10% and has been for many years. We agree and are fairly sure you will have noticed the cost of living increasing closer to these figures than the 1%–2% inflation figures used by central banks and governments. It is for this reason that we have included an option to increase the official inflation figures included within our calculators by your chosen percentage added to the official rate each year across the whole term of the calculations to better reflect your real-world experience and not just what we are told is the rate according to those whom it suits best.

They use the term inflation to describe the rise in prices and to set interest rates on savings and debt; it is therefore in their best interests to portray it as low as possible, as a higher rate would push up interest rates, and due to the Quadrillions ($1,000,000,000,000,000.00) of debt in the global financial system in the form of bonds, loans, and derivatives, to name a few, higher global interest rates would bankrupt governments and countries and collapse the whole financial system (think the 2008 financial crisis on steroids).

A manipulated lower inflation rate means a lower cost of debt, which entices people into more debt through loans, buy now, pay later, and property purchases with lower interest rate mortgages, continually pushing up the cost of purchasing a home. As the fractional reserve banking system is basically a global Ponzi scheme that requires ever more debt to feed the system, it makes sense they would manipulate the figures lower to ensure you keep taking out more debt to support them while paying you next to nothing, nothing, or even negative interest on your savings.

Central banks inflating the monetary supply by printing new currency debases all existing currency causing the prices to rise, the rise in prices are the effect of inflation and the reason you need to borrow more to pay for goods and services, the more debt you take out means more currency is created from that debt which causes prices to rise further, and so on. This massive global Ponzi scheme is not sustainable and is why we are now hearing about the Great Reset from the World Economic Forum who are blaming the 2020 corona virus and using it as a cover for 50 years of fractional reserve banking destroying the purchasing power of fiat currencies by over 95% compared to real money, gold.

Although this is an extremely important subject which you should be aware of and do further research because it affects your financial health through savings and everyday cost of living, we are attempting to give you the basics you need to protect yourself financially without causing you to lose interest (pun intended). For further reading we have included some links to books here and videos here which further explain in easy to understand terms, and we encourage you to learn a bit more about the main drivers behind how the whole system is designed to transfer your hard work into profit for the banks.

The monetary supply has exploded; inflation is the expansion of the monetary supply, and as with anything, the greater the supply, the less it is worth. That is basically why prices have risen so much over our lifetimes.

Obviously, this is a simplified explanation of inflation, and in reality, there are lots of factors that affect it, but the general rule is that inflation is part of the current fiat fractional reserve banking system, and it destroys your fiat savings over the long term, even if they are held in a tax-free shelter. Converting your fiat currency to real money, such as gold, is probably one of the easiest, safest, and best ways to protect your wealth over time.