{"id":43228,"date":"2019-01-27T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43228"},"modified":"2019-01-27T19:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:18:40","slug":"if-you-could-design-a-perfect-world-for-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43228","title":{"rendered":"If You Could Design A Perfect World For Gold\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If You Could Design A Perfect World For Gold\u2026<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Are you sick of your gold just sitting there<\/a> when it was supposed to have long since made you rich? Have you been fantasizing about a world in which your gold really does make you rich?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If so you\u2019re in good \u2013 or at least numerous \u2013 company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s sketch out such a world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start by envisioning an America in which a handful of oligopolies have captured banking, media, healthcare and several other important industries, while a tiny group of super-rich neo-aristocrats control as much wealth as the 200 million least-rich citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toss in a US president who goes out of his way to pick fights which he then proceeds to lose<\/a>, leading to both falling poll numbers<\/a> and derisive headlines around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a good start but probably not enough to take gold to its rightful price of $10,000. So let\u2019s add a US opposition party \u2013 which, given the above president\u2019s declining popularity, has at least a 50-50 shot at taking power in the next election \u2013 that is skewing madly, unprecedentedly to the left. For more on the three most popular Democrats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Warren proposes \u2018wealth tax\u2019 on Americans with more than $50 million in assets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ocasio-Cortez buzz hits Davos with talk of 70% tax-rate plan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Socialist frontrunner] Bernie Sanders set to announce 2020 presidential run<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, imagine that that same opposition party recently gained control of the branch of Congress that can investigate the President, leading to an escalating battle between legislature and executive that adds an element of legal chaos<\/a> to what would already have been a presidential campaign of off-the-charts vitriol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If You Could Design A Perfect World For Gold\u2026 Are you sick of your gold just sitting there when it was supposed to have long since made you rich? Have you been fantasizing about a world in which your gold really does make you rich? If so you\u2019re in good \u2013 or at least numerous \u2013 company.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4075,213,374,7544,827],"class_list":["post-43228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-chaos","tag-dollar-collapse","tag-gold","tag-john-rubino","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43229,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43228\/revisions\/43229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}