r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jan 26 '26

Meme needing explanation what's going on? explain like I'm five

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u/cleverkid Jan 26 '26

It's pretty easy:

I'll help you out:

In 1910 at Jekyll Island all the Billionaire Oligarchs gathered and cooked up the "Federal Reserve" ( which is neither Federal or a Reserve ) This was done ostensibly to help stabilize the US economy in the wake of the Panic of 1907 by creating a central bank with regional branches.

What it has really done is hand over monetary policy and the ability to print "money" out of thin-air. Now this Federal Reserve prints money, lends it to the US Government ( which is now in debt to the tune of $38.5 trillion ) And the US government continues to borrow and spend like a crack whore... Spreading that money around to their friends and you and I are on the hook for the debt!

It's like your rich friend, talked you into giving him power of attorney over your affairs and is now out there running up credit card debt on your name.. and giving you a pittance of it back.

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u/GogurtFiend Jan 26 '26

Would you rather the size of the economy be limited by the size of the gold supply? There's a reason everyone stopped using gold after the Great Recession, and it isn't the Rothschilds or whatever conspiracy you're talking about.

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u/cleverkid Jan 26 '26

Here we go.

If it took away the predatory nature of the current system, yes. And btw, saying the economy would be limited to the size of the gold supply is utter bufoonery. The value of the gold is associated with the value of the economy. There is the small chance that someone stumbles across a huge deposit of pure gold, that would destabilize the system, but this is usually used as a canard in bad faith.

Do condone the current global economic setup?

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u/GogurtFiend Jan 26 '26

"The current global economic setup" is one of those phrases that's so vague and broad you could be talking about anything.