Deflation is a decrease in prices across the economy, which can be beneficial for consumers who can purchase more goods with their income, but is problematic for central banks because it reduces spending and economic activity. Central banks use interest rates as their primary tool to manage deflation and inflation: they increase interest rates to create deflation (reducing borrowing and spending) and lower interest rates to create inflation (encouraging borrowing and spending). The Federal Reserve, as a private corporation, issues currency as debt instruments, and the price of money (interest) is fundamentally tied to debt. This creates a system where central banks can manipulate currency values and market conditions, which may contribute to economic instability and wealth inequality.
Deep Dive
Prerequisite Knowledge
- No data available.
Where to go next
- No data available.
Deep Dive
They're Losing Control of GOLD and SILVER! What Comes Next Will SHOCK Everyone | Lynette ZangAdded:
It is a silver dime, 90% silver, and this is a new dime. On the day we bought it, this one dime, silver dime, cost us $6.72.
You can still buy buddy, can you spare a dime? You can still buy a cup of coffee or very inexpensive meal with this dime, the silver one.
>> Right, the real >> What do you do with the other one? So, utilize these paradigm shift cards cuz you guys are the army out there.
Anyway.
But, uh yeah, I I don't really start swapping. I just define what I'm trying to accomplish, and then it's the right tool for the job, and then I'll have to worry about it.
>> Yeah.
>> I don't have to worry about it. Too busy.
Um, let's see. And Connor McCarthy, 5960.
Lynette, I know how inflation is a bad thing, but confused why then deflation is also bad, at least according to the media and financial world. Can you explain what deflation is and why it's so bad or not? Deflation are prices coming down. So, it could be if the stock market falls, that's deflationary.
If the real estate market falls, that's deflationary.
Personally, if things cost you less, but you're making the same amount of money, that is not a bad thing. It expands your ability to purchase goods and services.
But, for central banks, it's a bad thing when the markets go down because then people spend less. And their central bank's job is not to fix inflation or even fight inflation, it's to control the rate and speed of inflation. And with deflation, there's only one way to do that, and that's with inflation. So, that's this, where they're now devaluing the currency, pushing prices up, so that if you don't understand what's happening, let me look at the stock market. You There There's my retirement.
Oh, isn't that a good thing that the stock market just keeps going up? Except the stock market is extraordinarily and extremely overvalued.
>> Right.
>> And that income and wealth division between the haves and the have-nots is way wider than it even was in 1928.
Before the Great Depression.
So, what do you think is coming up in our future?
Because we're seeing insiders get out.
We're seeing risk transfers happen all over the place.
>> Yeah.
>> And that's your retirement. I mean, hey, let's legalize private equity. We can see that you can't get out of it.
>> Yeah.
>> And then whose fault is that, that you really have no money for retirement?
>> Yeah.
>> So, deflation is an implosion of prices dropping down.
You can only fight deflation with inflation, which is the value of your currency going down. Oh, you can do it.
Go ahead.
>> That's what you got to do.
>> Here you go. You got to do it. You got to do it.
Um and there's only one way to fight deflation, that's with inflation, and only one way to fight inflation, and that's with deflation. And central banks use interest rates to to reflect that.
So, they increase interest rates when they want to create deflation, fewer people borrow and spend. They lower interest rates to create inflation, more people borrow and spend. But quite honestly, financial conditions have been loosey-goosey this whole time since 2008.
>> Yeah, you know, it it's interesting too because you're right, that's really the only tool that the Federal Reserve has is interest rates. That's their like their golden sword that they try to use to control everything, but then it goes back to well, what is interest? I know we talk about interest rates, but interest itself is just a term for when you take on debt.
>> The price of money.
>> Right, the price and and so then they're telling you money is debt because all they can do is play with the interest rate. So >> Well, that's a really good point, but all you have to do if you're in the US, pull out a bill.
>> Yeah.
>> And it says Federal Reserve note.
Federal Reserve is a private corporation and you know it is a debt instrument. So we don't even hide it. I don't really see that same thing on some of these other bills. Um, but aren't we all told that it doesn't matter, these are all notes?
>> Yeah.
>> And a note is a debt instrument.
>> Exactly. Yeah, so it's it's it's just interesting how, you know, you I we I think some people have this this idea of the Federal Reserve as being this kind of, you know, government entity in a high tower and they're here to to help everybody and save the world and I'm like, well, all they really do is tweak a dial on interest rates and you know, that that only works for so long as you know, we're >> And that's where we're at.
>> Right, stagflation becomes a thing.
>> Right, where inflation, the cost of everything is going up, but wages are stagnating.
And so with these inflation numbers that are coming in, right? That hurts morale, that hurts confidence and and this is a con game.
>> And then the then the emperor has no clothes.
>> Exactly.
>> So it all ties back to what we talked about at the beginning. So, I think it's just, you know, it's it's simple. It's such a simple concept and it's like, I don't know, our job is to just get people to understand it, I guess, in the simplest way possible.
>> And and remember, too, if you ask a question and we did not do a good enough job explaining it, that's on us. That's not on you. So, make sure you let Tom know that we need to do a better job and we will. We won't be insulted by it, right?
>> Right. Yeah.
>> You're happy to answer any question.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love it. I love answering questions and learning more.
So, the only way you get to learn is if you get challenged with something new.
>> That's it.
So, Troll Heaton Forge, and if I'm butchering anybody's name, I probably am. I'm sorry.
"When will it happen? Year after year, it will crash, but it will collapse, but nothing happens. Oil is all-time high.
That's where I make my money, energy."
Yeah, well, it is happening. It's not This is not something that we're waiting for. This is very Everything that you're seeing is typical about what happens as as we transition from one currency into the next.
Do the powers that be want you to have private wealth that they can't inflate away?
Why would they want that? You are and I mean, what are we? Are low-value human capital?
>> Right. Yeah.
>> That's what we are. We're low-value human capital. How dare you think that you have a right to any of the fruits of your labor? No, your job is to feed the beast and feed the machine. I don't believe any of that.
But, that's the belief that's out there.
So, when will it happen? It's happening.
It's happening. And that you can't see it means that I have not done my job as well as I could, would, will, or should. So, so stay tuned.
Um energy, yeah, you think that's not going to have an impact on confidence?
This is a con game, make no mistake about it. And if you don't believe that, there's this bridge in Brooklyn we could talk about. I don't really own it, but I'd sell it to you anyway. I actually ethically couldn't do that. But, you're being sold a bill of goods. You can buy it, it's up to you. I can't control that. And guess what? Even if you don't believe me and you happen to be walking by my property and you're hungry, I'd still let you pick a pomegranate.
We have to, that's our obligation.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, we're asking people to admit that what they've been taught to believe as truth their entire lives is a lie, and they don't want to. And I don't blame them.
>> Yeah, so it's hard, it's a hard thing to have that, you know, paradigm shift going back to our dime cards, you know, it's it it is it's not it's not simple to I guess what was it that I think it was like maybe Mark Twain had said it's easier to actually fool somebody than to have them understand that they've been fooled.
>> Right.
>> So, but I I do actually think talking about energy and the the price of oil, you know, being at all-time highs >> Wait a minute, it was just under a hundred dollars a barrel today, at least it was earlier today.
>> Right. Yeah, oh, that's great. That's a great price, right?
Um but it it also goes back to because the the United States has that world reserve currency status, things like energy need to be bought in US dollars. So, if the US dollar is super duper duper strong against these other currencies, but that means that they've just lost that much more purchasing power. What was it that they had to do back in the '80s when the dollar got too strong against all the other currencies at the Plaza Hotel?
>> you talking about Oh, the Plaza Accord is what you're referring to.
>> Right. And that was the government saying, "Okay, we'll buy a bunch of foreign debt."
>> Well, look at, you know, for anybody to think that these central bankers and these governments are not inside of these foreign exchange markets. Again, there's a bridge in Brooklyn that we could talk about. They are constantly in there tweaking. So, buying their currency or selling their currency based upon whether they want to to look weaker or stronger against, but it's all an illusion.
>> Yep.
>> It None of that is real. You want something real? How about 33 different global users, 36 different global users?
Most functionality of anything on the planet. And what that means is the broadest base of buyers.
Completely out of the control, the physical. Completely out of the control of governments and central banks.
>> Yeah, exactly.
>> I think that's a good place for it to be.
>> Yeah.
>> Right? It's really what we want.
Um and Robert 4222, good afternoon. What do you think will happen on 7/13/26 when and if the USG puts a tariff or floor price on silver?
Well, I think that all of these are frankly just a whole lot of manipulation.
>> Yeah.
>> A floor price on silver? The cost of pulling gold and silver out of the ground pretty much does that already. Right?
But it's also when you stop and you look at where it's used.
Do you think that silver at 70 or 80 or even 100 bucks, do you think that that's real for a diminishing asset?
>> Not even close.
>> Not even close. And remember it was 2020, I think it was 2020, when SLV had to change their prospectus because they couldn't get their hands on enough silver to make their baskets for that ETF.
>> Right.
>> But hey, silver sure, it's not even worth 100 it's a joke. It's a joke. So what do I think will happen on July 13th?
Um What I I don't know what's going to happen on any particular day.
>> Yeah.
>> They they do this manipulation or that manipulation and and guess what? They can always sell a whole bunch of silver that does not nor ever will exist just like they can do the same thing with gold.
>> Gold, yeah.
>> But you look at what they have for delivery at the COMEX for both physical silver and physical gold and it's going down while the prices the visible prices that we see are struggling.
Why? Why aren't we seeing those prices just go up?
>> Mhm. Right, yeah. It's almost as if there's some sort of suppression. Maybe >> Oh, no. [laughter] See, didn't I see Did you have the the spring?
>> The spring, no. I don't know where the spring >> Did you hide it? Oh, no. It's okay. I don't do it very That's okay. I don't do that very well anyway. I need more practice. [laughter] >> With the spring.
I do I do also think it's important to note with the question, you know, floor price on silver, I think we should also really unpack that for what it is.
If they do put a floor floor price, that just means it's a floor on a future contract that they think that the silver price will be. So, it means that what?
They're going to fix They're going to fix the price on a future bet?
Yeah, that's that's the thing. The price of silver is not what is silver worth because the >> Oh, well, that'd be different. That's fundamental value.
>> The fundamental value of of silver of this is completely separate and detached from that that contract future price that you see when you pull it up on your phone or, you know, look at it on the ticker. That's That's a manipulated contract. So, I think that's just a something that I just wanted to make sure Robert understood.
>> Thank you. Appreciate it. That's why I like doing it with you, too, because you see things a little differently where you'll pick up on something that I miss and vice versa. And that's a good That's That's why I like the diversity. I like lots of energy coming in. I think it's a good thing.
And J Hawk Hawkeye 61, what is the tipping point for the public to wake up in the midst of constant lying and manipulation? That's what I'm trying to figure out because I really do think that, you know, I mean, I hand these out all the time wherever I am as much as I possibly can. You do, too, right?
>> Yeah. Yeah, we're going to be doing content on the dime cards, too.
>> Awesome. So, that's the point. If you guys can be the army and help this distribute get this distribute cuz when you do that, what kind of response do you get on these dime cards?
>> Oh, all the time. It's It's always The main thing is Oh, I can feel the difference. You can literally feel the weight difference on one side of the card versus the other. And I think it's just like the perfect metaphor for where we're at in the currency's life cycle.
It's all hollow promises.
You know, it's there's nothing real backing the currency. And to the point of well, how much more lying can people take? Well, it's all just lies built on this hollow currency that has nothing backing it. And how many times can you be lied to when you don't know the truth?
>> Right? And that collective reasoning, just like that one viewer up there was going, well, energy is where I'm making it, right? This is the collective vision that you're talking about with the emperor's new clothes, because nobody wants to say that the emperor is naked.
>> Right.
>> But at some point, people recognize it.
So, I wish I knew what the tipping point is. I don't know what that is.
But we're testing it.
>> there. Yeah, it's it's everything's going down with the consumer confidence.
And the graph earlier that you showed with trust in the government, the public trust in the government.
>> And And we recently had the absolute worst numbers on consumer confidence than we've ever had since they started tracking it going back to 1952, because after all, what was also happening during that period of time?
Oh, there was a lot of consumer credit that was being built.
>> Yeah.
>> Right? So, you have to recognize it.
Um and Nathan Petal 1786, do you trust Battle Bank's unallocated, not segregated gold accounts?
Well, you know, um I do trust Rick I trust Rick Rule.
I like Battle Bank.
But quite honestly, if you don't hold it, you don't own it. So, they have to be segregated if you're holding it in a private vault, which is how I hold mine because I'm such a visible, you know, person.
Um, I hold it in a private vault in my name, and I can actually walk to that vault if I needed to.
So, And Daryl Graves >> [laughter] >> Yeah, no comment on that one.
>> Okay, I just met with Lynette this morning. Please someone tell her I tested my theory and I was correct. She will understand. I do. And yes, I did meet with Daryl this morning.
And that's really that's very interesting.
And uh Daryl has another question.
Lynette, who and how are the spot prices controlled? What actually makes the prices go up? Amount of sales, who, what, or how much pur- purchases do you know?
Well, who, what, and how are the bullion banks? They're the And please feel free to jump in on this cuz I know you study this a lot, too.
Um, but the bullion banks, you know, like the the uh the London in London, they meet once a day and set the prices.
>> All right.
>> So, that's a stated price, whether you realize it or not. Now, the COMEX exchange, those are contracts. There's no limitation to how many contracts can go out there. And do I know um who, what, etc.? Well, quite honestly, the Bank for International Settlements does track some of that. But, the problem is is that they always change the formulas, and not just the BIS, but all of these guys. They change the formulas, so things look closer to the way that they want them to look. So, quite honestly, with the derivatives, nobody could really tell you.
You know, I can tell you it was believe it was 2009 when I said, "Well, wait a minute. We just now went to a trillion dollar deficit." And if you go back and you look on the surplus and deficits, I'm making notes here. Um cuz we're going to try something. Surplus, deficit. If I can remember why I'm making these notes to myself. Um so that I can pull these things up easier and faster when we're in here talking.
>> Yeah.
>> Um but if you if you take a a look at it, at that point we had just gone
Related Videos
Truckers Finally Seeing Higher Rates… But Carriers Are STILL Going Bankrupt
LetsTruckTribe
480 views•2026-05-28
IS THIS THE REAL REASON FOR DATA CENTERS?
PrepperDawg
7K views•2026-05-31
JPMorgan CEO JUST NUKED Mamdani... as NYC's Middle Class COLLAPSES
Englishman-In-NewYork
7K views•2026-05-30
The Dark Age Of Blue Collar Has Begun
derekpolasekofficial
4K views•2026-05-28
What has a broader economic impact, corporate downsizing or ecological collapse?
theratracejournal
1K views•2026-05-29
China Is Quietly Buying Gold, the Iran Deal Is Frozen, and Silver Is Heating Up
RichardHolloway0
694 views•2026-05-31
Why Canadians can no longer afford to survive #canada #inflation #shorts
TrueNorthInvestor-v4j
131 views•2026-06-01
Why People Pay More For Someone They Trust
financian_
66K views•2026-05-28











