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Trump On The EU: We'll…

Ghost of Truth — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:44:11 GMT

Trump On The EU: We'll Win That Financial Battle

During the press meeting with the Irish Prime Minister, US President Donald Trump has once again clearly defined what he sees as his geopolitical enemy: the European Union! Rarely have politicians at this level spoken more clearly and given us a hint as to what could happen next.

With the withdrawal of the United States from the Ukraine battlefield, the European Union has now found the scapegoat for something it has been planning for a long time: the consolidation of government debt in a common fund, curated by the European Commission and kept liquid under the care of the European Central Bank and its interventions on the bond market. In this way, both institutions would allow themselves an enormous increase in power, with the European Central Bank in particular virtually outgrowing itself.

However, what then presents itself here as collective collateral, as euro debt, is more than just a fragile credit substrate of the highly indebted euro states. It is highly endangered credit, as the eurozone can no longer leave the waters of recession, while the waves of geopolitics are causing the ship of state europe, if that is what you want to call this violent construct, to lurch violently.

To prevent this fiscal policy tightrope act from failing immediately, officials in Brussels and in the ECB's Frankfurt tower are openly talking about the introduction of digital central bank money, cbdc, as early as this fall. Panic is in the air, Europeans' fear of capital flight from the crisis-ridden eurozone to the United States is thickening the air in Europe to the point where you can almost cut it.

The German plan to implement the gigantic debt program proposed a year ago by former ECB President Mario Draghi to revive the eurozone economy as part of Germany's rearmament has caused panic selling on the eurozone bond markets. Much of this capital found its way into European defense companies. They now stand as a godfather for the Europeans' attempt to build their own military industrial complex, which would of course be centrally controlled and promise Brussels a last hope of stimulating growth. It is in this context that European representatives of all powers are now trying to manipulate and undermine the peace negotiations between Russia, Ukraine and the United States. A peace treaty would be the worst thing that could thwart these plans. This is the hour of the anti-diplomats, of BoJo the Clown and other weirdos who represent the geopolitical interests of London and have no regard for any humanitarian successes.

The gates out of the eurozone are slowly closing, capital controls and the ECB's infamous control money are looming on a cloudy horizon. At this point, I have to take sides with Bitcoin. Bitcoin can replace this gateway for the little man at this point and help to protect his purchasing power from the encroaching functionaries from Brussels and the European capitals as well as the European Central Bank. The fact that officials from the EU and the European Central Bank keep referring either to the irrelevance of Bitcoin or to its merciless failure says more than a thousand words. It's a kind of coronation ceremony, performed by those who normally crown themselves with the crown, not realizing that they are doing the business of their mortal enemy by repeatedly pointing to it in an attention-grabbing way.

It simply fits into the picture that President Trump has announced the introduction of the strategic Bitcoin reserve and is pursuing a pro-Bitcoin policy. This time, he is not just engaging in polite rhetoric, he is actually taking action and thus underlining the seriousness of his efforts to show functionaries and central planners of the European Union their limits. Bitcoin is an excellent instrument for defending our individual freedom, especially when it comes to individual freedom or digital prison. It almost seems as if we are witnessing the resurgence of the systemic conflict of freedom versus collectivism, only in this case Europeans are openly taking sides with the devolutionary program of socialism. And the downward spiral on the old continent is spinning faster and faster.
The time to act is now, not in October!

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Eurozone: Watch Out For Capital Flight

Ghost of Truth — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:42:12 GMT

Eurozone: Watch Out For Capital Flight

Central planners in the European Union are under massive pressure and the alarm sirens are ringing not only in the Frankfurt ECB Tower, but also in Brussels and London, where the big cribs are being drawn. The fact that ECB President Christine Lagarde, of all people, announced the introduction of digital control money, the euro CBDC, three days ago must be seen in a global context.

The sacking of Vladimir Selensky from the White House was a sign that the Ukrainian credit pump is being shut off, that Americans are no longer prepared to tie their economic and social future to the fate of war-mongering Europeans und EU socialists. They now have to deal with the self-created problem in Ukraine themselves and are plunging into massive orgies of debt, which can be seen in the example of Germany which has just announced a 500 billion euro arms program, financed of course with the credit pump, immediately after the Bundestag elections.

The result is refinancing problems on the bond markets, with liquidity squeezes on the horizon for the eurozone. And it seems that there won't be a second coronavirus to justify freezing the economy and pumping subsidies directly into the system without risking hyperinflation and the collapse of the euro.

So now the CBDC in the eurozone, planned from October, a sign of panic in the capitals of the eurozone in the face of massive debt, deepening recessionary trends and the withdrawal of the Americans from co-financing the bankrupt Europeans. A CBDC is nothing else than capital controls to prevent the flight of capital to the USA, while getting rid of the problem of public debt at the expense of the citizens via inflation. At least that's the plan. It can therefore be assumed that before it is introduced, we will see massive flight movements to the location that treats capital better and more respectfully than the euro-commies do these days.

So let's pay attention to the barometer of this capital flight, the interest rate spreads between US government bonds and those of Germany or France. If the capital flight from the eurozone to the USA begins, this spread will explode (european rares rising rapidly as the bonds will be selling off, US bonds vice versa). And following Kristin Lagarde's logic again, this explosion is expected in the fall. Let's stay vigilant!

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EU’s Fiat Gambit: Leveraging Geopolitical…

Ghost of Truth — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:53:19 GMT

EU’s Fiat Gambit: Leveraging Geopolitical Chaos to Mask Economic Decay

The political shift in the White House reveals that the world is moving toward a radical economic bifurcation. One side, led by the United States, is relying more and more on free market forces while cutting government spending (think of Argentina), while the other side is falling back on old-fashioned recipes of socialism, state interventionism and the rotten recipe book of Keynesian magic which will only lead them deeper into the unavoidable debt trap as it is an illusion to be able to control interest rates without consequences like massive inflation and currency debasement.

A glance at the history books of the 20th century already tells us the outcome of this test of strength: decentralized systems that entrust decision-making powers to the individual will always carry off the laurels of the victor. They are simply channelling scarce ressources like energy better than other systems. Without anticipating the point I would like to make: it will not be the Europeans who rely more than ever on centralization and the consolidation of power in Brussels who will be receiving economic laurel.

The European Union is betting big these days, hijacking the U.S. pullback from the Ukrainian battle field and monetizing Russia-stoked fears politically to roll out a mammoth €800 billion fiat credit blitz, this time as the South has been sucked dry over the years led by german debt issue, to dodge its spiraling growth crisis and keep rolling the debt over space and time. We all know the keynesian logic: all economic misery has its roots in a lack of demand which certainly the all-knowing government will fill up with hyper intelligent government spending programs.

What we are witnessing here is a reckless dive into the Keynesian debt pit. Meanwhile recession signals scream loud: February 2025’s composite PMI sits at a dismal 48.9, stuck below the neutral measurment of 50 for months. Industry and the construction sector in particular are at rock bottom and show hardly any signs of revitalization, even if the business cycle is picking up a little speed globally. Industrial output is tanking with a 0.6% monthly slide in January,now with a PMI at 47.6 deep in recessionary territory hammered by high energy prices and supply woes. Deficits are swelling to 4% of GDP in 2025, with debt-to-GDP nearing 90% by 2026 (point of no return usually can be find at around 80%), per the European Commission. Productivity’s a ghost and it stays flat for the time being.

Once again, it was the bond market that reacted quickly to the geopolitical impact of Germany's gigantic debt program, which is now trying to close the gap with the other European debtor countries. Bond markets pounced on Germany’s debt reveal: 10-year yields leapt 40 basis points within two days after the announcement of the new german debt fiesta - Germany’s from 2.4% to 2.8%, Italy’s from 3.6% to 4.0%, France’s from 3.1% to 3.5%- defying the ECB’s 0.25-point rate cut.

That €800 billion tab that follows step by step the debt structure proposed by ex ECB president Mario Draghi last year to give the dead Eurozone a last stroke. The program follows Draghi's proposal like a little dog follows its drunken owner. It comes with €22.4 billion in annual interest, a chokehold on a wobbly economy. Worse, it’s a catalyst for centralization. Subsidies soared 15% last year, per EU data, propping up dying industries, while regulations - like new green and digital mandates - pile on €22 billion in yearly costs, per the European Chamber of Commerce, suffocating innovation.

What we are experiencing here in Europe is the path to common debt, the suspension of the last Maastricht rules which, looking back today, we can say was probably the plan of the fiat centralists from the very beginning, since cheap credit is the drug they are all addicted to since cheap credit is the drug they are all addicted to and with which they are getting the population drunk. Every election cycle is always a gift-giving contest, the presentation of false hopes and simulation games, the creation of false security and prosperity, in the forge of the central banks' printing presses, brought into the world by politicians whose distance from economic reality has become maximum.

But if there is one thing the Europeans understand, it is how to turn self-created crises into an advantage for the centralized body of power in brussels. In their understanding of economics, prosperity comes from well-organized central planning, which implies communal debt, or more simply, using Germany's creditworthiness to force more credit on others. We can therefore expect the imminent introduction of Eurobonds to further expand the nonsensical credit programs of the past decades and accelerate the massive capital shortfall, which will further inhibit productivity, especially in the eurozone. In this way, Europe will not be able to translate technological progress into active production and prosperity.

Debt slaves nations to bond markets, demanding risk premiums as trust fades and puts the onus on taxpayers to divert ever larger portions of productive capital into channels into which it seeps away without bringing further progress. Germany’s debt brake is toast (it has always been an illusion, since political actions, even when written into constitutions, are reversible at any time) and the CDU’s cynical push through a defunct Bundestag reeks of desperation.

Remember: the CDU is the party that was still pretending to have Christian-conservative values during the Merkel era, while executing the green-socialist agenda of decomposition in a way that even the heirs of the GDR SED and their green socialist brothers and sisters in the West did not dare to dream of.

The whole german economy was built as a charade within a fog of narratives which over the past two decades has essentially been a kind of euro mercantilism: a domestically low-wage sector coupled with a currency that was undervalued by 30 to 40% for the German economy. Massive trade surpluses (the narrative of world export champion Germany) ensured booming foreign credit business and an enormous dependence of the entire eurozone on the creditworthiness of the German economy. At the end of the past few years, the Brussels-Berlin policy, since the attack on the nuclear industry such as the automotive industry and the phasing out of nuclear power, has affected the German economy to such an extent that the spectre of recession in the form of Germany's sinking lead is now haunting the whole of Europe.

In what creative german politicians call “Special funds” (which is officially unconstitutional) they're hiding their reckless spending now, sticking taxpayers with the bill. This is centralized control masquerading as rescue—industry fades, productivity dies, and the crash of the hole economic bubble nears.

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