Gold hedges massive ongoing devaluation of U.S. Dollar

46th anniversary of ‘Tricky Dicky’ ending Gold Standard (see video)

Savings destroyed by currency creation and now negative interest rates

Long-term inflation figures showgold a hedge against rising cost of fuel, food and cost of living

$20 food and beverages basket of 1971 cost $120.17 in 2017

Household items increased by average of 2000% and oilby5,373%since 1913

Gold gained5,669% since 1913; by nearly 3,000% since 1971

Dollar has been reserve currency of world in the period and most other currencies have seen greater devaluation

Evidence of gold’s role as inflation and currency devaluation hedge

Editor: Mark O’Byrne

‘US dollar Purchasing Power As measured By Gold’

Source:Goldchartsrus

You don’t need ‘Tricky Trump’ to devalue the dollar, it’s been doing thatsince 1913 and ‘Tricky Dicky’ in 1971

In 2015 President Donald Trump made headlines when he told a town hall event in Atkinson, New Hampshire about how his father had once given him a ‘small loan of a million dollars.’

Outcry swept around the media who asked how much the future President was really in touch with the common voter.

Whilst Trump’s reference to ‘small’ was in relation to the (apparent) size of the empire he subsequently built he may as well have been referring to the value of a million dollars now and how small it is compared to in 1975 when he was lent the money.

$1 million dollars was a lot of currency in 1975. Today it will barely buy you a nice house in a nice city.

Using today’s CPI data Trump Sr’s $1 million loan would today be equivalent to $4.4 million. The purchasing power of a 1975 US dollar has fallen by over 400%. It has fallen a lot more since 1971.

In this week 46 years ago on August 15 1971,President Nixon announced the U.S. Dollar would completely cut ties with sound money gold(see video below).

Without gold backing and gold as a monetary anchor,we can now see just how much the purchasing power of the consumer dollar has declined since 1971.

You can see an even better example of the dollar’s collapse in purchasing power when measured in gold ounces (see charts above).

Prices climb by over 2000%since 1913 and creation of the Fed

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