A single income once supported a family comfortably, whereas today, even dual incomes often struggle to cover basic expenses. Yet the rich have never been more rich. Something has gone terribly wrong. What is it?

People using homes as investments.

“More subtle than even the income tax device for looting nations, is the control of currency. In these matters the Rockefeller Empire has been guided by the principal German agents of the **Bismarxian conspiracy,** Felix and Paul Warburg, sons of M. M. Warburg, representative of the Rothchilds and banker for the German governments, including Hitler’s. The Warburgs became partners of Rockefeller’s bankers, Kuhn Loeb & Co. at the beginning of the century, directly after their arrival in this country from Germany. With the cooperation of the Rockefeller interests, represented by Senator Aldrich, they promptly set about creating **the Federal Reserve Bank as a private corporation that, in violation of the Constitution, controls our currency system, and through it, manipulates and steadily absorbs the wealth of the nation for the conspirators,** and dominates the industry, commerce and policies of the nation.

A quick understanding of the extent of the looting that can be accomplished by this control of the currency system by the conspirators, without going into the technicalities of the mechanism, can be conveyed by one simple statement, to wit: **The same conspirators, with the same mechanics that they are employing in the U.S., engineered the devastating inflation in Germany that wiped out the wealth of the citizenry and destroyed their freedom. They also planted revolution and Communism in Russia.** Every device and method that they employed in those countries has been adopted in their domestic conspiracy. Every move that they make in **their pretense of fighting inflation is deliberately designed to increase it and to hasten the debacle.**

The staggering taxation, which they pretend will cut the purchasing power of the people and prevent inflation, is the most powerful factor in increasing inflation. Taxes are an integral part of cost, often multiplied many times. The increased revenue from taxes also increases the amount of money available for spending by the government itself, the most powerful factor in speeding inflation. On the other hand **the conspirators block increased production, the only final deflationary force, even more directly, by rigid restrictions of production.** To these devices they add the tremendous costs of a vast bureaucracy, of welfare and social security trickery, of increased wages fostered for their own advantages through class, “labor” legislation and “collective bargaining”, deficit financing and by enormous and steadily rising appropriations for “defense”, the Point 4 program and Marshall Plan and **pretense of “fighting Communism”** in Korea and Europe, most of which flows directly into the kitty of their **gigantic swindle,** and to the bolstering of the Soviets.

**The value of ruinous inflation for the success of the totalitarian conspiracy was pointed out long ago by both Marx and Lenin. In one stroke the “new social order” can be attained by individual and national bankruptcy.** Inflation by manipulation of currency, the squandering of the wealth of the nation, deficit financing and ruinous taxation must all be checked and the plotters ousted, if we are ever to recover our freedom and survive as a nation.”

-Emanuel M. Josephson, M.D.

Rockefeller “Internationalist” The Man Who Misrules the World, 1952

2 major things happened:
1. Governments stopped taxing wealthy people. In the US in 1952, the top marginal income tax rate was 91% so the wealthy was paying more to the government which in turn went into infrastructure, education, healthcare, etc. Today that tax rate is 37%, and there are many more loopholes for the wealthy to pay even less tax than that, so less is being spent.
2. In 1971, the US dollar was taken off the gold standard. With nothing backing the dollar except government decree, the money taps were turned on, dollars have been flooding the market ever since, and this has made every dollar worth less and less. Your money is worth less than it used to, and without significant changes to the system, it will continue to be worth even less in the future.You know this as inflation.

The government printing money and lowering interest rates. It creates inflation which destroys purchasing power which significantly affects the lower and middle class more than the upper class because they use a far larger % of their pay on basic necessities, so they have less discretionary income. Lower interest rates blow up asset bubbles which helps the rich because they own pretty much all the assets. The lower class have less discretionary income due to inflation, less to put towards building wealth and participating in the assets nominal price increase

Capitalism. Do you even have to ask? Greed is good, we have all decided..

Trickle down economics unleashed the corporations

The major ethnic mafias of this country joined together in the late 40s and eventually took over the country(plus founded a colony in the Middle East)