In Global economies with the US in mind, there are three primary issues:

1. The currency stability

2. The hard asset value / volume and stability

3. The ability to utilize a population's productivity

The dollar is and will remain the primary global currency. Why? The ownership of hard asset value associated with it. (about 935 trillion in hard assets) The currency is but an exchange tool for hard assets. Those same hard assets can be exchanged for any currency or other hard asset swap.

The factor most do not think about or equate into the balancing act of the dollar is the extent of  "ownership" of hard assets held by collective US and Local government domestically "and" globally in other currencies. At the end of 2008 with the intentional play of the world market collapse for wealth transfer, all from the population were doing the Chicken Little dance of the Sky is Falling per the dollar. The chatter boxes were saying the dollar was going to collapse down to zero.

Well, in reality those Chicken Little's spoon fed to do so had their heads rammed up in a very dark, warm, and wet place. In reality the dollar by view of the dollar index in a little over a month and a half went from 71 to 89, its largest short term spike in history. Why? To perpetuate the massive global pr-positioned short global stock indexes and long dollar derivative play. To lock in a profit on your short Stock index derivative play you need the physical market to collapse.

Here the US global managers out of the 40-T+  held globally sold off about 3.5 to 4 trillion in global stock / equity holdings. China, Mexico, Vietnam, India, etc., etc.  All of which were in that countries currency, and then converted the sale into dollars (buying dollars) thus the spike from 71 to 89. Additionally, in doing so locking in the profit on the short derivatives pr-positioned play. I note the pr-positioned plays in other markets was: Long the dollar; Short the metals and energy indexes, Long the US Interest Rate bond / Treasuries.  The global gang locked in about 30-T on that massive play as all others outside of the loop lost their shirts. Very simple but not a peep to the fleeced. What was cute was the fact that they then used a trillion here and a trillion there of taxpayer revenue to sure up the market place they just used to transfer (steal) 30-T through. Much of it credited to "international" held and managed global accounts.

It is all about wealth transfer as has been the case for over 5000-years. That process works very efficiently when you can fleece the sheep down to the bone and then get the sheep to thank you for providing them with food, water, and shelter as the fleecer comforts the sheep saying over and over again: "Look your wool is growing back".

The US government collective now owns it all by investment / regulation / and taxation draining the productivity value of a nation. Not only do they have a lock on the majority of hard assets, but a lock on the current and future productivity value of the nation's population. (Russia's wet dream of the 30's in place here today)

CAFR's are simply an accounting book. Paper like any currency. It is the hard assets which includes land, investments, income that is the sole and important factor. Collectively Federal and Local governments in this country are the wealthiest monolith ever know of no equal in history of the planet, coordinated now by self created "private" associations. The population needs to stop being entertained off in La-La land having leaves and branches waved in their face for distraction purposes to keep them looking in left field as the wealth transfer takes place on a massive scale in right field. It is all basics when looking at the scope and size of the forest and what it controls in and as a well maintained and directed collective force.

Keeping one's wool coat is a good thing. Getting baited (you, family, and friends) into the sheering house is not a good thing. Grasping the scope, size, and current intent of the fleecers in basic and clear view by knowing where to look is an excellent tool and knowledge to have to keep from being fleeced. Small scale fleecing is done by criminals. Large scale fleecing is done by governments. Since the time of the Pharaohs the population was looked at as something to be drained and managed for wealth transfer. Never has been a good thing (for the population) and never will be a good thing. What I have suggested of TRF fiduciary trust account management to meet all local government's budgets without taxation creates for the first time in history the circumstance where all are on the same page, a Win-Win for one and all, and a very prosperous economy perpetual for the next 1000-years +. The extortion issue by force is taken out of the picture and the incentive for massive market manipulations as was the case in 2001 and 2008 is also taken out of the picture.. Under the TRF management principle a government would be screwing themselves over screwing everyone else, thus there goes the incentive to do so..

On a last note being that you seem to have an interest in what happens with gold, I suggest you read the following article I put out in 2011 - http://CAFR1.com/SoYouWant.html

Walter Burien - CAFR1.com

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