Marshall Sutherland

Wed, 10 May 2023 18:51:02 -0400

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

15 years after the original Crash Course videos, a new edition is being created.

Crash Course 2.0: Chapter 1 – Setting The Table

The Crash Course remains a solid work of framing.  One of the best of my life (so far).

Because so few people have taken it lately, beginning with today’s ‘Chapter” I am redoing the entire Crash Course, piece by piece, as my weekly public videos from now until it’s done.

I think everybody should see it, and that’s my only request.

Agree with me, disagree with me, take it to heart, or decide to ignore it, I truly believe everybody deserves a chance to accept or reject the premise.

Why?

Because I know that there’s an extraordinary wealth transfer coming.  Many more people are going to lose (a lot & possibly everything) between now and ~2030 than win.

When the operative question left to be resolved is “Who’s going to eat the losses?” then it’s vital that you are not doing whatever the herd is doing.  By definition, when an entity is insolvent, everybody cannot be paid back. Historically speaking, those ‘haircuts’ are not shared equitably.

We’re way past our budgetary and income limits with respect to energy, pollution, species loss, and debt.  There’s no possible way to “grow our way out of this.”  Doubling down is no longer an option.

Again, agree with me or disagree with me, the conversation needs to be had either way.

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Tue, 16 May 2023 21:01:18 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

Crash Course 2.0 – Chapter 2: Money, Wealth and Banking

Understanding the characteristics of money, its role as our social glue and trust-at-a-distance, and especially where it comes from are absolutely vital things to know.

Which is probably why they are almost never taught anywhere within the educational system nor in our mainstream press.

Most importantly, everybody should be tracking how much money is being created ‘in their name’ by the Fed and for what purposes.

When you do, and you compare those amounts of ever-accumulating debt against what the future economy could reasonably provide, it’s completely obvious that there’s a huge maw of a gap between the claims (debt) and the stuff (GDP).

How will that gap be resolved? Does anybody know? Is there a plan besides a loosely defined “Great Reset” and maybe a CBDC roll-out?

Well, since we’re not even having the conversation publicly, we have to assume the answer is “no,” there isn’t a plan.

Tue, 23 May 2023 20:01:48 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

The Crash Course Chapter 3 – THE FED

If you don’t understand what the US Federal Reserve is, How it operates, or who owns it, you’re flying blind.

The Fed is the most powerful entity in the world.  Far more powerful than the Department of Defense, far more powerful than the CIA, and far more powerful than all of the politicians put together.

Money controls our lives and The Fed controls the printing press.  It can create as much or as little money, without any oversight, any time it wants to.  It can flood the world with currency, or create a massive drought by draining it away.

Any and every move it makes affects the entire economy, global markets, and the lives and futures of every single American and quite a few foreigners.

Naturally, these facts are almost never discussed publicly.

But isn’t it in all of our interests to understand and question why The Fed decided to throw an entire generation under the housing bus by rescuing house prices (i.e. making them go higher by lower interest rates)?  That act bailed out existing homeowners but trashed the economic and household formation dreams of the next generation in line.

Who gave them that power?

And who granted The Fed the right to enrich the ultra-wealthy by shoveling endless piles of money at the financial markets for so many years?

These and many other revelations are discussed in this foundational, essential chapter 3 of The Crash Course.

Wed, 31 May 2023 17:51:14 -0400

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

Crash Course Chapter 4: INFLATION

If you can understand inflation, you have a shot at understanding how the world works, and where it’s heading economically.

Unfortunately, inflation is almost never taught properly in schools, if at all, and it’s mischaracterized in the press, over and over again.

They all keep talking about inflation as “rising prices” when it’s actually “falling money.”  That is money that’s losing its purchasing power.

Once you can make this mental flip – from rising prices to falling money – you are in a better position to resolve what’s actually happening in the world.

And that thing that’s happening is the same thing it’s always been; people in power preferring to steal from everyone quietly and mischievously rather than having to be direct and explain themselves and why they want your money handed over to their latest goobermint boondoggle.

Because that’s what inflation is – a hidden tax.

It steals from the many to pay for the errors of the few.  It secretly and silently removes purchasing power from everybody’s savings every single day.

It’s the most regressive tax there is and, based on that, you’d think that various champions of the poor and the downtrodden would be up in arms about the true source of all that regressive hardship.  But they are not.  They are nearly stone silent on the matter which means their true aims and concerns are not as stated.