WHICH IS WORSE, INFLATION OR THE DECLINE OF THE DOLLAR'S VALUE?

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You've all heard of TDS ("Trump Derangement Syndrome"), right? Well, I just came from the TDC ("Trump Delusion Center"), which is also known as The Conservative Treehouse.
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Essentially, The Conservative Treehouse (TDC) is a website for those folks who are suffering from the opposite of TDS. These folks are apologists for President Donald Trump. Led by a blowhard calling himself Sundance, most of the readers / commenters there worship Trump to such a degree that they cannot acknowledge a single mistake or error of judgment that the president makes. If it appears to be a bad action, or a miscalculated decision, or a poor assessment of someone's character, it's NEVER a mistake on Trump's part. It's always explained as Trump playing "3-Dimensional Chess" -- which only Trump and Sundance are intelligent enough to understand. The Conservative Treehouse (TDC) is practically a religious temple dedicated to god Trump.
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Yes, there are sometimes good articles on that website -- I don't want to knock it completely. And I was reading it fairly regularly during the 2016 Presidential Campaigns. It had some great stuffs! But since then, I've gotten tired of the pretzel logic and the goofy explanations for some of Trump's screw-ups and bad decision making that routinely get introduced into many of the Conservative Treehouse articles.
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And don't get me wrong. I have no buyer's remorse about voting for Trump. First of all, there was NO OTHER viable choice. (I mean, it's not like Ron Paul was running -- whom I surely would have voted for.) And although Trump has a long way to go before I feel satisfied that he's lived up to his campaign trail promises, I understand that not just the Democrat and Republican parties are at war with him. This ENTIRE world (ruled by satan, as The Holy Bible makes perfectly clear) is at war with him. It ain't easy bein' Trump.
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However, overall -- and despite some decisions I vehemently disagree with him about -- Donald Trump is already the best president of my lifetime. (I just turned 58, in case you were wondering how long my lifetime has thus far been.) Of course, that presidential bar has been set really low, so it's not like it was going to take a whole helluva lot for Trump to surpass all the other presidents to begin with.
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Now, like I was saying, I've just come from a rare visit to Trump Delusion Center where I skimmed an article titled Washington Times: Fed Policy Powerless To Influence Inflation. The title alone is laughable. And then we come to the sentence, "While the issues inherent within economic influences can be riddled with complexity, we remain optimistic that MAGAnomics will be very very successful." Which appears to be code for: "I'm not really sure what I'm yakkin' about, but I still believe in Trump!"
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Some of the commenters at TDC seem nice enough, but the vast majority of them come off like know-it-alls. And Heaven help you if you say anything that could even remotely be construed as anti-Trump, because you will be called a "shill" faster'n you can spell the word, and surrounded as if by a pack of rabid, ravenous wild dogs!
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In the aforementioned article, one person (they call themselves "Treepers") began his comment with this:
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"The big elephant in the room is not inflation it is actually the decline of the value of the US dollar."
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Ha!-Ha! Way to go, Treeper! The only error I see in that statement is that... [*wait for it!*] ..."inflation" IS "the decline of the value of the US dollar". These are synonymous!! What do you think "inflation" is if not a decline in the purchasing power of the dollar? Sheesh!
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Finally, I get to the point of this post: The most important book you could ever read on the U.S. economy (and thus by extension, on secular politics) is THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND: A Second Look At The Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin. You can read my own review of this exceptional & essential book by clicking [link:) HERE. ...You're welcome.
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~ Stephen T. McCarthy
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