Because of the SpaceX IPO I hear many people talking about trillions of dollars here and billions of dollars there and what Elon musk was worth back when he told X advertisers to f*** off, versus what he's worth today. I wanted to make a point and this is self-evident if you spend about 3 seconds thinking about it. The dollar itself is a meaningless value of accounting because it is untethered to anything. In other words, you can't talk about the dollar today in compare it to the dollar yesterday. The US dollar is going to go the way of the Zimbabwe's "Dollar". That end is absolutely inevitable however the only question is "How fast?". It is conservative to say that since the beginning of the Covid crisis that the US dollar has lost no less than 40% of it spending power. This means that the government through the use of the printing press has essentially stolen 40% of the savings of everybody in the country who had their savings in dollars! This is also why social security has had a COLA at least twice over the last few years. It's because old people eating pet food in order to survive does NOT make good headlines. So while the United States is in celebration about a trillion dollar IPO you need to understand that Zimbabwe had a single piece of paper that said 1 trillion on it at one point in time and the question is how fast dollar is going to deteriorate from where it is right now to the point where that one trillion dollars is good for the purchase of toilet paper at which point people will simply use the currency exactly like they did in Zimbabwe. And anybody that knows anything about history also knows that Zimbabwe is not the only example of runaway inflation. It happens many times in South American countries. It's happened in Europe - Germany. It happened in England and the only way to stop it is to tether your currency to something like silver or gold which is why article 1 section 10 of the United States Constitution exists. The original coinage act of the United States made it a crime under pain of death to debase the currency of the United States and yet between 1965 and the early 1970s all the silver was removed from the coinage in circulation and Nixon moved us out of the gold standard essentially in the early seventies as well. Those events were technically high crimes against an entire nation and yet where was the media? Does anybody who hallucinate that the money that was raised at the IPO today is simply going to be left to rot in the form of dollars through inflation? No, it will be invested in hard assets. Based on current global shortfalls and demand, - silver would be the target asset to place it into. What that would do to the price of silver and the return on the investment would make today's IPO look small in comparison to the gain. As a wise King once observed: "The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked is of little value." - and there is summarized two different money systems: one commodity and the other one fiat. I pray that Elon Musk does the wise thing.

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