As a professional advocate working to protect people from financial victimization, I am often asked about the most pressing scams and frauds, and sometimes predatory sales tactics and manipulations.

Certainly, US citizens need protection against the myriad risks that threaten their wealth. Unfortunately, the average American citizen goes to work every day and is completely unaware of their own financial victimization perpetrated by our own government. Hopefully this can serve as a primer to help everyone become aware of how the US government has been confiscating the wealth of its citizens for a long time.

The following is taken from Michael Maloney in his “Guide to Investing in Gold and Silver” and this is not an argument for gold and silver or metals. I find Mr. Maloney to have an exceptional knowledge and understanding of the history of money and currency, and that is a mandatory awareness for economic survival in today’s global economy. The author has simply done a wonderful job of simplifying and summarizing a very complex subject, so as a starting point here are his words:

I used to have a hard time trying to understand the world monetary system. Chances are you’ll find the system a bit bewildering as well. Fortunately, one day an analogy occurred to me that helped me connect the dots.

Imagine a very large room. In this room are the heads of the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the rest of the world’s treasuries and central banks, all the commercial banks in the world, and a bunch of Wall Street elites. Then imagine them all frantically making IOUs and passing them to each other as fast as they can. That is the world monetary system.

Now the basis of this system is a bond issued by the Treasury of a country, the Ministry of Finance or whatever they call it in your country… for now we are going to call it the government. These government bonds are the foundation of the world’s monetary system. Bonds basically say, “I owe you (IOU) X-amount of currency plus X-amount of interest.”

Many entities buy these government bonds. But when a country wants to create a currency, the government sells a bond to its central bank. the central bank write a check against a zero balance in your checking account for the dollars, euros, yen or whatever the government wants, and buy the bond. The coin has now arisen, and can then be used to redeem the bond. Therefore, the bond is a promissory note for the currency. but sincere the currency is also a claim check to redeem the bond when due, the currency is a promissory note for the bond. Get it? No, me neither. That’s because it’s crazy. If you or I did this, we would be accused of fraud.

The point everyone needs to take from this is how the Federal Reserve creates currency out of thin air, this is commonly known as counterfeiting. This is also how mortgages are created and the end result is more currency flooding the market reducing the value of currency already in the market. This creates price increases that are commonly known as inflation.

Consider how this works, when a new currency is created, the value is transferred from the existing dollars to the newly created dollars. The creators of the coin gain maximum purchasing power from the coin due to the fact that there was no cost to create the coin. Also, the creator gets back the currency (which costs nothing to create) plus interest (more currency). So the banks (especially the Federal Reserve) get richer while we get poorer, all because of the basic premise of counterfeiting.

Now almost everyone in the country, regardless of education or background, knows that counterfeiting is illegal. But what most people don’t know is how legal counterfeiting has exactly the same results as illegal counterfeiting. It is a way of stealing wealth for the public. A little historical study and you will find that this cycle has been an event that has occurred regularly throughout world civilization and has always ended with the same result, which is economic destruction.

The most pressing need for the public is to gain a working awareness of these basic economic principles because wealth transfer can be a positive for anyone who is paying close attention to cycles and events.

I view this financial victimization as a more insidious activity than scammers and manipulative sales organizations because it is perpetrated as a totally acceptable daily financial exercise. People trust the government to provide financial and regulatory protection to the public, but that trust leads to an outrageous breach of trust. No one likes to believe the reality that citizens are financially abused and victimized on a daily basis by the institution that earns our full faith and trust. I personally have a hard time accepting it, but the story is clear and the manipulations that exist are also very evident. So what should I do? How to maximize the opportunity that exists on the reverse of manipulation? These are the questions to ask yourself and the answers to look for. Just understand and keep in mind that the answers will not be found in the mainstream as the financial news outlets, financial publications, and loudspeakers are all part of the systematic manipulation. Your answers will be found in counterintuitive and counterintuitive thinking. It takes a combination of analytical and critical thinking. You must avoid being attracted to normal thinking based on conformity. That simply won’t protect you from ongoing financial victimization.

In conclusion, the vast majority of financial victimization is victim-centered. By this I mean that the unfortunate truth about scams, fraud and predatory sales tactics is that the victim is the unknowing perpetrators and they can be inoculated and insulted through education, analysis and personal awareness of personal behaviors. and prejudices towards money and financial problems. The tragic truth about government currency manipulation is that it is actually creating victims and that victimization affects all taxpayers in the United States.