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📉Fiat money is in an eternal bear market.
Currency debasement is not a bug — it’s a feature of the fiat system.
Global Markets Investor
July 30, 2025
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Since the Bretton Woods system collapsed in 1971, not even one of 152 countries has kept average inflation below 2%. That is the year when the world moved to fiat currencies with no gold backing.
Even Switzerland, the best performer, averaged 2.2%.
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In other words, since 1971, every country has experienced currency debasement. As a reminder, currency debasement is the reduction in the value or purchasing power of a currency over time.
Currency debasement erodes the value of our savings, causes average wages to lag behind rising prices (inflation), inflates asset values like stocks, real estate, and gold (precious metals), and, as a result, shifts wealth from savers to debtors and the government. This is how the current financial system works, in a nutshell.
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