Wealth Systems

Wealth Systems

Ghost Money, Part II

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Matt McDonagh
Dec 13, 2025
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So far, we have surveyed the wreckage wrought by a broken pact: the severing of the link between the creation of money and the creation of real-world value.

They flooded the zone with ghost money, and there are consequences and opportunities because of it. Check out Part 1 of this series if you missed:

Ghost Money

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May 25, 2025
Ghost Money

Our economy is defined by a hidden struggle between two forces.

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We diagnosed the illness in that article: the monetary system where the supply of currency, controlled by a small cadre of central planners, expands far faster than our collective ingenuity can innovate. The symptom is inflation, a force we argued is not a benign feature of a healthy economy, but a deliberate act of intentional wealth arson that functions as the greatest, most silent heist in human history.

It is the ghost in the money machine, systematically draining the value from our time, our labor, and our savings.

TLDR: THE ELITE ARE STEALING OUR MONEY

To understand this problem is to be faced with a profound choice.

Do we accept this managed decay as inevitable, or do we seek an alt…

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