{"id":204,"date":"2023-10-30T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:04:17","slug":"the-fate-of-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of the Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read <a href=\"https:\/\/ellenbrown.com\/2023\/10\/03\/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all\/\">this<\/a> today &#8211; &#8220;<em>A \u201cfinancial derivative\u201d is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/admiralmarkets.com\/education\/articles\/general-trading\/financial-derivatives#:~:text=To%20gain%20a%20complete%20understanding%20of,to%20understand%20how%20they%20came%20about.&amp;text=To%20gain%20a%20complete,how%20they%20came%20about.&amp;text=a%20complete%20understanding%20of,to%20understand%20how%20they\" target=\"_blank\">defined as<\/a> \u201ca security whose value depends on, or is derived from, an underlying asset or assets. The derivative represents a contract between two or more parties and its price fluctuates according to the value of the asset from which it is derived.<\/em>\u201d &#8211; and it occurred to me that the US Dollar is just a derivitive too, whose value depends on the productivity of the US taxpayer, the &#8220;underlying asset&#8221;.\u00a0 Between The Great Resignation, the millions disabled by the COVID jabs, and schools churning out useless idiots, it would seem the value of that &#8220;asset&#8221; is declining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today &#8211; &#8220;A \u201cfinancial derivative\u201d is defined as \u201ca security whose value depends on, or is derived from, an underlying asset or assets. The derivative represents a contract between two or more parties and its price fluctuates according to the value of the asset from which it is derived.\u201d &#8211; and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickening.zapto.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}