019 Define the Economy, Federal Reserve Bank, Inflation, Smart Money, Debt

In today’s Episode I Define the Economy, Explain the Federal Reserve Bank, Explain inflation and the cause, I discuss the option for smart money, and our debt

Housekeeping:

• I have a book: “The Honey and The Bee”

• Prepper Podcast Call-In line: (978) KNOWS-IT or (978) 566-9748

• Winner of the Colt Tactical Survival Knife is Greg from TN

Discussion:

Call from Joe of Missouri: Wood pellet stove vs wood stove

• Wood Stove Pro’s

  • Eats almost anything solid that is flammable (wood based)

  • No moving parts other than the door and the damper

  • Does not require electricity

  • You can cook on the top if its large enough

• Pellet Stove Pro’s

  • As long as the hopper is full if produces effortless heat

  • Starting the fire is easy

• Wood Stove Con’s

  • You have to empty the ashes on a regular basis

  • You have to feed it wood on a semi regular basis

  • Takes work to start the fire

• Pellet Stove Con’s

  • Takes electricity to work

  • Pellets are pricey compared to cord wood

  • Many moving parts to break down

  • Expensive 600 vs 2000

• Why not use a rocket mass heater

  • High efficiency

  • Clean Burning

  • Mass stays warm when fire is out

  • Most can be built for less than that of a wood stove

Money

• Money is a means of exchange for goods and services

• The common agreement that money has worth is what make it so

• Money has been used in many different forms

  • Cattle

  • Gold

  • Silver

  • Paper Money

  • Digital Currency

• Most people think money is gold backed

• Fiat Currency- value because government declared it so

• Ours is Debt backed – Every Dollar you spend is backed by debt

This is how the Economy is run

• Banks loan money that they don’t have

  • That money is placed in circulation

  • Now we have more money in the economy

• Where do the banks get the money

  • The Fed loans them the money

• Where Does the Fed get the money

  • Two Ways

    • They force “member banks” to keep money in the fed

    • They have the Mint print it for them

• U.S. Monetary Aggregate Transparency:

  • M0: Cash and Coins… FederalReserve Notes, US Notes, Coins

  • M1: M0 + Deposits… Demand Deposits, Travelers Checks, Other Deposits

  • M2: M1 + Savings… Saving Accs, Money Market Accs, MM Mutual Funds, CDs under 100k.

  • M3: M2 + All other CDs (large deposits, institutional MM Mutual Fund balances), Deposits of Eurodollars, and Repurchase agreements

  • M4: M3 + Commercial Paper + Treasury Bills

  • 2006 Treasury stopped Publishing the M3 components except inst. MMMF

    • 2 years later… bailout… M3 STAT

• So every dollar spent by the Government is created by the Mint through the Fed and is another debt backed dollar on the market

• Now the Government has to pay the fed interest on all that debt, just like we do.

  • They have the IRS

  • They sell more Bonds to Fed and Us

  • Bonds in the 401k

  • MyRA

• The government is taxing us to pay their debt interest!

  • more taxes = we have to work harder to earn the same amount even though our money is now worth less

  • taxed for the welfare as well

Resources:

• Federal Reserve Economic research: http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Choose.aspx?rel=H.6

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