2 incorrect ideas that have shaped the modern world
1. Governments must be involved in the creation of money
2. Inflation is a good and necessary part of an efficient economy
These lies are the foundation of our modern economy. That foundation is failing fast.
@LukeFHan Money is the ‘water’ that we all swim in, but most don’t have any idea what it really is. Christ mentioned or focused on money in about 25% of His parables.
One of the most important questions for our day. What is money?
Unfortunately our money is broken
What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit?
What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe?
What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to cancel?
What if “burden sharing” is the most expensive euphemism in the English language?
What if the City of London cabal is draining our banks?
What if the advice from globalists is terrible advice that’s costing us big?
What if every European basing agreement, every forward-deployed brigade, every Ramstein runway, every Aviano hangar, every Souda Bay pier is a tax American workers pay so Berlin can run a welfare state and Paris can run a 35-hour week?
What if foreign aid to Europe isn’t aid, it’s tribute, flowing the wrong way?
What if transporting the vast majority of trade on European owned ships costs more than we realize?
What if the NGO archipelago in Brussels, Geneva, and The Hague is just a money-laundering loop where US taxpayer dollars get rinsed through a “civil society” conference and returned as lectures about our democracy?
What if the UN isn’t a parliament of man, it’s a Manhattan timeshare with diplomatic plates, an accounting black hole, and a Human Rights Council chaired by people who’d jail you for tweeting this?
What if “the rules-based international order” was always code for: Americans build it, Americans pay for it, Americans bleed for it, and Europeans grade it?
What if $36 trillion in debt looks a lot smaller the second you stop underwriting a continent that sneers at you in three languages?
What if you zeroed out the Europe line, the NATO line, the UN line, the NGO line, and woke up tomorrow in a country with the fiscal headroom to rebuild every shipyard, every foundry, every rail line, and every Navy hull we’ve let rot since the Cold War ended?
What if American tourists went to American cathedrals, American opera, American museums, American cities instead.
I’m not saying I believe all of it.
I’m saying maybe, just maybe, we could pay down all our debt and wouldn’t have to pay taxes at all if we cut Europe loose.
The future can be bright for all Americans… those alive today and those yet to be born. That outcome depends not on ideology, but on whether leadership is willing to adapt monetary authority to realities that can no longer be ignored.
We are approaching a structural transition. The existing monetary framework (built for a different era) is under mounting strain. Trust is eroding, incentives are misaligned, and system complexity has surpassed its ability to self-correct.
At the same time, the global race to deploy artificial intelligence is introducing near-term inflationary pressures, followed (inevitably) by profound deflationary forces as productivity accelerates and marginal costs rapidly decline. These dynamics are not theoretical. They are already unfolding.
This transition cannot be prevented. It can only be navigated.
History will not judge this moment by intentions, but by whether leaders recognized the inflection point and acted with discipline, foresight, and credibility. Monetary systems ultimately rest on trust… and trust must be anchored to something durable.
The direction is set. The only remaining question is whether leadership chooses to guide the transition… or waits until adjustment is forced.
If we fail to act with prudence, today’s fireworks may become tomorrow’s recurring reminder of a generational failure shared by all Americans.
@POTUS@SecScottBessent
@BasedMikeLee Ending the Fed would lead to greater freedom and prosperity.
Inflation caused by the Federal Reserve is peak taxation without representation.
Just finished a small dinner with Secretary Bessent and Chairman Scott. We talked about the Market Structure bill. We talked about the economy. We talked about the 11 finalists for the Chair of the Fed, and we talked about the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
The US holds about $17B of Bitcoin and ‘will not sell’ and plan to continue to accumulate.
Those things were cool.
What’s cooler?
Being at the table. Being in the room. Talking about land. Power. Sovereign AI. Talking about Bitcoin. The actual Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America and the Chairman of the Banking committee care enough about what we do to sit down and talk about how they can help.
We’re so early. But we’re about to arrive.
No other ‘crypto’ or AI folks were here.
Tick. Tock.
@w_terrence I hate seeing those posts too. Anyone who says Charlie Kirk is racist, hasn’t watched more than a few edited clips of him. So frustrating- because he was none of the things they accuse him of being & he only wanted the best for everyone.
@BitPaine Well said, thank you @BitPaine. Thank you @charliekirk11 for your courage and sacrifice. Your words, ideas and respectful debate have inspired a generation and will grow more powerful in the face of senseless and cowardly violence.