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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Weaponizing the dollar without a factory base behind it ends one way. Macroeconomic analyst Luke Gromen says a reserve currency used as a weapon is only as strong as the industrial capacity standing behind it, and America let that capacity go while the leverage still felt free. Every... show more

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 Decades of grid and industrial buildout have handed China an edge that election cycles can't answer. Macroeconomic analyst Luke Gromen contrasts planning horizons, with Western policy set by the next vote while power capacity and talent get allocated abroad on a much longer clock. His warning is about what happens when nobody looks far enough ahead, since an economy steered by short-term thinking eventually runs straight into structural problems it never saw approaching. Luke Gromen

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Decades of grid and industrial buildout have handed China an edge that election cycles can't answer. Macroeconomic analyst Luke Gromen contrasts planning horizons, with Western policy set by the next vote while power capacity and talent get allocated abroad on a much longer clock. His warning is about what happens when nobody looks far enough ahead, since an economy steered by short-term thinking eventually runs straight into structural problems it never saw approaching. Luke Gromen

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Luke Gromen: 💀The Dollar's Funeral & Gold's Coronation 👑 – why the US can no longer prevent it. Luke Gromen explains how China has checkmated the US with gold and rare earths. 🇨🇳 China's Game-Changing Move (The "Rare Earth" Checkmate): ✅ China just banned the sale of rare earth metals for U.S. weapon systems. ✅ Why it matters: Rare earths are essential for advanced missiles, drones, and jets. ✅ The U.S. defense industrial base cannot function without them. ✅ China did this to protect itself against US intervention while establishing an alternative to the US monetary system. 📈 A NEW Global Monetary Order ✅ Gold has now overtaken U.S. Treasuries as the #1 reserve asset in global central bank holdings. ✅ This is a historic, structural shift. It is not a temporary trade. ✅ "There is nothing more inflationary than an insolvent government printing money to pretend its debt is valuable." 🚨 WHY Gold & The Dollar Are Rising TOGETHER: ➡️ This is the key signal of a dying reserve currency. ➡️ Countries are desperately buying dollars to pay debts (squeezing the dollar up). ➡️ At the same time, they are fleeing into gold as the ultimate safe haven. ✅ This paradox is the smoking gun. The system is breaking. 🎯 What This Means For You: The old rules are dead. The world is desperately searching for a new, neutral foundation for value. That foundation is gold.

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Everyone is asking who wins the conflict. That is the wrong question. Ask a different one. If oil stops flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, who can actually absorb it? Because a closed strait hurts everyone, but it does not hurt everyone equally. It hurts the importers most. China. Southeast Asia. Europe. And it hurts the one economy that barely depends on that corridor the least. The United States is one of the few places the world can still go for energy in relative calm. That is the real leverage. Not who controls the chokepoint, but who can live without it. And the chokepoint may not last anyway. The UAE is building the capacity to bypass Hormuz entirely, which would end its power as a bottleneck for good.

Everyone is asking who wins the conflict. That is the wrong question. Ask a different one. If oil stops flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, who can actually absorb it? Because a closed strait hurts everyone, but it does not hurt everyone equally. It hurts the importers most. China. Southeast Asia. Europe. And it hurts the one economy that barely depends on that corridor the least. The United States is one of the few places the world can still go for energy in relative calm. That is the real leverage. Not who controls the chokepoint, but who can live without it. And the chokepoint may not last anyway. The UAE is building the capacity to bypass Hormuz entirely, which would end its power as a bottleneck for good.

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"We Are Creating An Incentive For Countries To Move Away From The Dollar System, And That Could Seriously Damage Our Economy In A Catastrophic Way!" Former Counterterrorism Head Joe Kent Reveals The Danger Of Using The Dollar As A Weapon Around The World Simply Because It Is Currently The Global Reserve Currency!

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98,120 views • 1 month ago

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