An Order of Fiat

After showing you some silver, I figured I'd contrast that with an explanation of Fiat money.
From google:

 fi·at mon·ey
Noun: Inconvertible paper money made legal tender by a government decree.


Sound familiar? That's right, the U.S. Dollar is a Fiat currency.

Inconvertible here simply means that it is worth NOTHING to the government.  Previous to the Fiat system, a dollar bill was valuable because it represented gold or silver. Now, they hand it out to people, people pretend it is real and become productive, then the government uses the actual wealth the people create in order to borrow and print more Fiat money!

What's worse is that the Treasury isn't even the culprit here.  Our monetary system is essentially owned and operated by private banks with offshore owners.

From Infowars.com: 

Much of the tens of trillions in bailout money and “easy” money from quantitative easing went to foreign banks (and see this, this and this).Indeed, Ron Paul noted recently that one-third of all fed bailout loans – and essentially 100% of loans from the New York Fed – went to foreign banks.
The New York Fed is the most important Fed bank. As Bloomberg pointed out in 2009:
The New York Fed is one of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks and the one charged with monitoring capital markets. It is also managing $1.7trillion [now up to at least $1.9 trillion] of emergency lending programs [and accepting collateral from the banks in return].
However, the country’s most powerful “agency” – the Federal Reserve – is actually no more federal than Federal Express. The Fed itself admitted (via Bloomberg):
While the Fed’s Washington-based Board of Governors is a federal agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act and other government rules, the New York Fed and other regional banks maintain they are separate institutions, owned by their member banks, and not subject to federal restrictions.

 So basically, a private bank has been supplying the country with irredeemable pieces of paper which only have value because our Government says so.  I'll just side-step the obvious question of "how does something magically gain value just because a group of old men say so?" and instead present a little economics lesson.

This graph illustrates the function of price according to supply and demand.

If the dollar supply is shooting way up due to printing, where do you think the demand will go?

The black lines show a normal economic function.  When aggregate demand oversteps the supply, then the price shoots up.  More people want something that there is less of.

When aggregate demand is surpassed by the supply, the price goes down because less people have a desire to purchase and therefore more must be sold at a lower price to make profit.

How this works with the dollar is a little bit more tricksy, but still simple in its function.  When the Federal Gov't orders the printing of trillions of new dollars and then, as seen above, ships most of it overseas... we don't get to see the supply-side increase here juuust yet. 

However, we do feel the demand for our labor, manufacturing, and services begin to shrink because slowly but surely, the value of the dollar has begun to shrink.  Supply and demand is a cruel teeter-totter.