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The short answer to this is: YES!

Any replacement of public money ('public equity,' 'common wealth') by private 'for profit' moneyed interests, is a bad thing. Any kind of new 'liquidity' seems to make things easier for the everyday person, in the near term, but private money has the effect (over time) of transferring more and more assets into private hands; mainly, into the hands of those moneyed interests closest to the source of the new private 'currency' creation (we can't really call this money). Of course, the real reason behind the promotion of these new 'Stable Coins' (backed by the US dollar) is to create new demand for US securities in the currently struggling (read: failing) bond auctions. Backing a Stable Coin with US dollars does not entail money in the issuer's bank account, but rather, the purchase of bonds. Since much of the world is unloading US bonds, and no longer buy new ones, new buyers are absolutely essential at this point in time; or sooner or later, an auction will fail (the date of this ultimate failure will be controlled of course, because the FED can always intervene). This is starting (or about to start) as the current QT trend stalls:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttrends.htm

What's the excuse going to be this time? in 2019/2020 'Covid' provided 'convenient' cover for the unlimited creation of money by the FED, this time, it's mostly likely going be war (civil or otherwise). They only so many tools in their tool box, after all. There's so much more to talk about, but thank you for shining a light on this issue, Doreen :-)

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