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BumbleBee's avatar

The banks have been making use of the BTFP/reserve interest ratio arb that the Fed “overlooked” when constructing the BTFP program (oops? Yeah, sure....), to make up for the income lost by declining loan activity. That arb was a built-in stealth bailout within a bailout, IMO, and has been helping to keep banks afloat for the last year until smart analysts figured it out. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, the Fed is making a virtuous stink to the public about how they’re shutting down the BTFP on schedule in March. Is that going to be when they’re planning to collapse the banking system and panic herd us all into CBDC’s and UBI? Or is there a teensy asterisk behind their promise, which leads to a footnote written in two point stating that the BTFP will simply be replaced by a another, but more complex and secretive bailout program? My guess is the latter, and the beat will go on until everything necessary for the final entrapment of humanity is in place.

IMO, the best strategy is to keep pulling your cash out of whatever depository institutions you’re in, stack harder, and put together communities of likeminded individuals who will be happy to jump into the parallel economy as soon as the monetary trap door finally opens under the paper economy. “T-bill and chill” for some of your paper so you don’t lose all of the value to inflation. Cash in when the yield curves in-invert, and turn the rest into Constitutional money. In the meantime, buy durable stuff you’ll need in the future (appliances, furniture, clothing, etc.) need now, when it’s on sale, and before the next supply shock or higher interest rates hit. Keep your head during the mania of the dying empire and focus on financial self-preservation. Silver and gold will survive what’s coming just as they always have. Put your faith in what’s real, and starve the beast of it’s lifeless blood of worthless “assets” in the meantime.

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My opinion is that noone is under the limit, I think you will get your fiat back. They will just print whatever they need. But, by the time you get it it won’t be worth much. Or, even worse, they will give it back to you but if, and only if, you accept it as a CBDC.

To me, that is what makes the most sense. We know their objective. So how do they get there.

First they soften things up with serious inflation, all while gaslighting us on how good things are. Then they crash the banking system, people can’t get their cash out for weeks. Can’t buy food, can’t pay the rent. Then they offer the solution to the banking crisis. A new digital currency. Call it whatever you like. Cloward-Piven. Hegelian Dialectic.

The real question is when. The FED NOW payment system trial was a disaster. I’ve had the same bank rep for 20 years and he told me that they participated in the trial last summer and it did not work. Assuming he was truthful, you have to wonder whether they are anywhere near being in a position to roll out a CBDC.

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