July 23, 2020
Chris Lowe
A new, digital-only dollar is coming... It’s a totalitarian’s dream... In the mailbag: “FedCoin would make the Chinese government blush”...
Time is running out...
That was our message in yesterday’s dispatch.
As I (Chris) began to show you, the government is about to replace the cash in your wallet with a new, digital-only dollar.
This will be based loosely on bitcoin.
And it won’t be Citibank, or Wells Fargo, or JPMorgan Chase that issues these new dollars.
It will be America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve (or Fed).
Legacy Research cofounder Doug Casey calls this new, digital-only dollar “FedCoin.” And as he and his chief analyst, Nick Giambruno, have been warning, it’s going to be a disaster for your privacy... and your wealth.
It’s also going to trigger the mother of all rallies in our favorite decentralized currencies – bitcoin and gold.
Today, I’ll show you how the Fed will not only issue a crypto dollar... but also make sure Americans use it.
But first, it’s important you have a clear picture of how FedCoin will work... and why it’s so dangerous.
FedCoin will give the government a godlike ability to track wealth...
Physical cash gives you anonymity because it’s offline. When you transact with dollar bills, only you and the other party to the deal have to know about it.
But the only way to spend, receive, and store FedCoins will be via an app on your smartphone.
And all transactions will be recorded in a centralized government database.
That makes FedCoin a sort of anti-cash.
Everything you do will leave a permanent record for the feds to monitor and track.
And the feds won’t just be able to snoop on you. They’ll also be able to block you from making certain transactions. As Doug has written...
If I’ve got a $100 bill in my wallet or a bunch of 10s and 20s, I can spend them on anything I want with anybody I want and nobody knows. With blockchain… [the feds] know exactly who’s getting the money and what it’s being spent for.
And it can be programmed so that certain transactions can’t take place. So you are pretty well blocked in. [T]he government knows exactly what you’re buying, what you’re selling, how much you are earning.
They’re in complete control; able to take what they want… including your entire account if you become politically undesirable.
It’s a totalitarian’s dream, in other words. Imagine what Nazi Germany’s secret police, the Gestapo... or the KGB in Russia could do with that kind of information.
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FedCoin also closes the “escape hatch” on negative rates...
Negative rates allow central bankers to tax your savings without congressional approval.
For example, at a rate of negative 5%, for every $100,000 of savings you have, you forfeit $5,000 a year. At a rate of negative 10%... you forfeit $10,000 a year.
And negative rates aren’t just theoretical.
Central banks in Japan and Europe have set negative interest rates. And although he claims it’s not on his menu of options right now, there’s nothing stopping Fed chair Jay Powell from doing the same.
The only problem right now is the feds can’t charge a negative interest rate on physical cash that’s in your possession... only on digital dollars you store at a bank.
FedCoin slams that escape hatch shut. FedCoins will be under full control of the Fed. They’ll be subject to whatever negative rate it sets.
All central bankers will have to do is hit “delete”... and your digital dollars will disappear.
You may be skeptical about this nightmare ever becoming a reality...
But central bankers around the world are getting on board.
As Bloomberg reported, in June 2016, central bankers from about 90 countries met with bitcoin experts behind closed doors in Washington, D.C.
Delegates from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) joined them.
Janet Yellen, who was Fed chief at the time, opened the meeting. And the keynote speaker was Adam Ludwin, cofounder and then-CEO of Chain. It’s a crypto project working to bring the world’s financial system onto blockchain.
“The real golden opportunity, the thing you should be working toward,” Ludwin told the central bank luminaries gathered in D.C., “is a central bank digital currency.”
Since then, support for these new e-currencies has surged...
That’s going by a new report from the BIS.
Established in 1930, the BIS is owned by 62 central banks from around the world. Together, the countries it represents account for 95% of the world’s economic output.
The best way to think of it is as a think tank for central banks. And it just put out a report that’s slipped under the radar of folks in the mainstream press.
The BIS tracked positive and negative references of FedCoin – what it calls central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs – in speeches by central bankers.
This revealed a massive shift in sentiment toward these digital-only currencies. Take a look...
The blue lines represent positive stances toward CBDCs. The red lines represent negative stances toward them.
As you can see, positive references have started to surge as of late last year and into 2020 (blue bars on the right).
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Two of Asia’s largest economies have begun rolling out CBDCs...
A senior figure at the Bank of Thailand, the country’s central bank, confirmed it’s using a CBDC for transactions with some businesses.
He said the central bank is also studying rolling out a state-backed digital wallet available to the public.
And as we put on your radar back in April, China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, is piloting a CBDC program.
And it’s gaining traction.
The company behind China’s Uber, Didi Chuxing Technology Co., has said it will let its customers pay with China’s CBDC.
Back in the U.S., Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has chosen a very interesting hire for the role of chief operating officer at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
That’s the bureau within the Department of the Treasury that charters and supervises banks. Here’s Nick with more...
Mnuchin just appointed a guy called Brian Brooks to run the OCC. Brooks was the chief legal officer at Coinbase. It’s the blue chip of crypto exchanges.
The writing is on the wall. Cash will soon be a relic, banished to the dustbin of history. This means every detail about your financial and personal life will soon be in the hands of bureaucrats and central planners.
I know what you might be thinking... Surely, Americans will resist... Surely, they’re not going to allow Washington to take full control of their financial lives.
But don’t count on it...
It’s something Nick tackled head-on in his special report about FedCoin.
He says the government will bribe folks to comply. Nick...
I recently ran across an IMF working paper. It suggested the Fed would encourage folks to trade in their cash by paying higher interest than they’d get at the bank.
And right now, that’s not hard. The average rate of interest on a checking account in the U.S. right now is 0.06%. So, maybe the Fed pays 1.5% on FedCoin deposits during the transition period.
At that rate, FedCoin would pay almost 17 times more than the average savings account in a commercial bank. Many Americans would happily comply for half that amount.
If persuasion doesn’t work, the feds have other ways to enforce FedCoin use. Nick again...
After the transition period, the government won’t ask anymore. They’ll take away the incentive and start using penalties.
They could tax cash transactions, for instance. They could also place an expiration date on paper currency beyond which it would be unusable. They could even go so far as sending you a “hazmat” bag in the mail and forcing you to turn in your paper currency.
I get it that this scenario seems far-fetched. But wheels are already in motion.
Next week, I’ll have more for you on why FedCoin... and other CBDCs... will act as rocket fuel for the rallies in bitcoin and gold that are already underway.
Meantime, you can get more details from Nick about the monetary shock that’s on its way in the video presentation he’s put together. It shows you exactly what you should do to protect your wealth before it’s too late. Go here to watch it now.
In the mailbag: “FedCoin would make the Chinese government blush”…
A Casey Research reader wrote in with a question about the War on Cash. So I reached out to Nick for his thoughts…
Reader question: Regarding the end of cash and the switch to a digital currency, I was at a fast-food drive-thru and saw a sign saying, “There is a national shortage of coins. Please pay with the exact amount or a credit/debit card.”
Has the U.S. Treasury stopped making coins? Is this the start of the end of cash? Are they still making currency?
– Suzanne L.
Nick’s answer: Exploiting crises has long been the modus operandi – and ethos – of the many sociopaths that fill governments.
Governments always have a set of radical programs they could never pass under normal circumstances. These programs sit on the shelf, waiting for the right moment. Crises offer governments the perfect opportunity to roll out these programs.
The U.S. is facing a global pandemic and the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. You can bet the government is not going to let it go to waste.
One thing is for sure, Washington will try to use the current crisis to accelerate the War on Cash. The end goal is the elimination of all cash and a totalitarian control grid that would make the government of China blush.
Aside from the personal freedom aspects of the War on Cash – which are extremely important – there will be financial consequences, too.
You’ll want to make sure your wealth is out of harm’s way. I recently released an urgent video that shows you exactly what you should do before it’s too late. If you’re interested in learning the full details of what’s going on, you can access it here.
Will you sign up to use FedCoins? How do you feel about the coming cashless society?
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Regards,
Chris Lowe
July 23, 2020
Dublin, Ireland
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