Why Your Steak May Cost $130 Before 2035: The Fed, Nixon's Playbook, and the Coming Dollar Crisis

Wake up. Your steak may cost $130 before 2035 because Trump is copying Nixon and Maduro. Here's how:

The theater you are watching on the news regarding Jerome Powell and the "renovation costs" is just noise for the sheep. It is smoke and mirrors designed to distract you from the catastrophic engine failure happening under the hood of the global economy.

The Reality: The Fix Is In

The administration isn't serving grand jury subpoenas because they care about the price of drywall in a Federal Reserve building. That is a pretext. They are doing it because they need the money printer to go brrr to secure re-election.

Interest rates will come down, and de-dollarization will happen. Oligarchs will make quick money.

Why History Is Repeating: The Nixon-Burns Disaster

Why? Because human psychology never changes. History is a flat circle, and we are repeating the exact same mistakes that nearly destroyed the dollar fifty years ago.

Presidents have tried to control the Fed before.

In 1972, Richard Nixon bullied Fed Chair Arthur Burns into lowering interest rates to juice the economy before the election. Burns caved. He took the Blue Pill.

The result was the "Great Inflation" of the 1970s. It decimated the middle class and required painful, massive rate hikes to fix. We are watching a replay of that car crash in slow motion.

The current administration is following the Nixon playbook step-by-step. They are threatening the central bank's independence—the only thing stopping politicians from turning the dollar into confetti—to get a short-term dopamine hit for the stock market.

The Laws of Economics Do Not Care About Your Politics

You cannot cheat gravity, and you cannot cheat economics.

Look at Venezuela. Maduro killed central bank independence to lower rates. Result? 800% inflation and total economic collapse. Look at Turkey. Same story.

The United States is $34 trillion in debt. We cannot afford the interest rates required to fight inflation properly (it'll be way worse than the 1970's). The system is cornered. The politicians will choose to devalue the currency rather than default because votes matter more than your savings.

The Death of Dollar Dominance

When the world sees that the Fed is just a political lapdog, trust in the "bedrock" of the currency evaporates. The smart money will flee the dollar and move to hard assets like gold. If you are holding all your wealth in fiat currency, you are holding melting ice cubes. This is why crypto became a thing, by the way.

The media is focused on the drama of who will replace Powell—Kevin Hassett or Kevin Warsh—in an "Apprentice-style contest." Who gives a damn? It's a distraction.

The goal is to install a puppet who acts on political fear rather than economic data. Trump's own White House ballroom went from a $200 million estimate to $400 million despite his claims of being a master builder. Yet they want to indict Powell for cost overruns?

It is hypocrisy. It is a power play. And it signals that the independence of the Fed is dead.

The Cold Hard Truth:

• History repeats itself: Nixon did it. It caused a disaster. We are doing it again. Expect the same result.
• Cash is trash: If the Fed pivots to lower rates for political reasons, inflation is coming back with a vengeance. Protect your purchasing power.
• The System is rigged: The "dual mandate" is a lie. The only mandate politicians care about is staying in power.
• De-dollarization is a certainty: When you weaponize the central bank, the world stops trusting your money. Plan accordingly—buy hard assets because when hyperinflation happens, they will keep you out of the spiral.

Stop watching the theater. Start protecting your wealth.