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A collection of all theoretical and analytical articles regarding the P.C.M. monetary paradigm

The Pizza Test: What Your Wallet Knows That the Official Statistics Don’t

A verified, source-cited comparison of real purchasing power loss across the Dollar, Euro, Pound, and Swiss Franc — and why the numbers your government publishes are not the numbers your grocery bill confirms. I want to start with a confession. Before writing this article, I verified every number with primary sources — the US Bureau

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Mutua Ope Vivimus: The Answer to Two Thousand Years of Divide et Impera

A philosophical article. After twenty articles of mathematics, history, and systems analysis, I want to say something simpler. Something that has been true for as long as human beings have existed — and that a broken monetary system has spent seven centuries trying to make us forget. There are two Latin phrases that between them

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The Two Monsters: Why Both Inflation and Deflation Destroy Economies

A theoretical and historical analysis of the two fundamental monetary pathologies — and why anchoring money to productive capacity is the only architecture that eliminates both by design. In previous articles I have argued that money — what I call the F.V.I., the Fungible Value Index — is not a good. It is not a

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The Envelope Calculation: Where the Numbers Point if Nothing Changes

A mathematical projection based exclusively on verified, source-cited data. Where numbers are certain, they are stated as facts. Where they are estimates, they are clearly labeled as such. This is not a prediction. It is arithmetic applied to a known trajectory. A mathematical projection based exclusively on verified, source-cited data. Where numbers are certain, they

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$27,000 a Year Just to Stay Alive: This Is Not a Healthcare Bubble. It Is Something Worse.

When the cost of health insurance for a family exceeds the federal poverty line, the question is not “what is wrong with healthcare.” The question is “what is wrong with the dollar.” A family of three in the United States. Two working parents, one child. They have jobs. They pay taxes. They are, by any

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How the Printer Owners Got Their Power: A Documented History Nobody Teaches in School

This is not a conspiracy theory. Every event in this article is documented in official sources, participants’ memoirs, and institutional histories. The question is not whether it happened. The question is why nobody talks about it. A reader named Angelia recently made an observation that deserves a full answer. She noted that the problem of

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August 15, 1971: The Day They Unchained the Predator Instead of Changing Its Diet

The problem with 1971 was not that Nixon abandoned gold. Gold was always the wrong anchor. The problem was that in the precise moment when the architecture could have been redesigned correctly, nobody in the room asked the right question There is a version of the 1971 story that almost everyone tells. Nixon, facing a

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The Green Mile

How a Monetary Decision Made in 1944 Became a Death Sentence That Takes 80 Years to Carry Out: the most dangerous feature of a structurally flawed monetary system is not the damage it does immediately. It is the damage it does so slowly that nobody connects the cause to the effect. The Last Wave ·

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