I call those who are behind the scenes with the current power and authority “central planners”. They attempt to map out the best strategy to keep their power and authority intact. Control is the name of the game. They would sell their grandmother for a buck. After all, she isn’t lookin’ so good now is she.
We must sift through all the words and painted perceptions to see their intent as well as expect Our Heavenly Father to expose their hearts to us. On a macro scale it is becoming obvious what direction the central planners are pursuing. We must assume that isolated thinking is not occurring at the top of the pecking order. If anything, communication is greater now than ever before. 1oo years ago you could isolate a country and extract its wealth with little awareness on the other side of the globe. The Internet eliminated the ability to hide the intent.
The central planners’ current actions:
1. Control the printing of a country’s currency by legal mandate.
2. Disconnect gold as a reserve against the amount of currency you can print.
3. Charge the country interest for money you create out of thin air.
4. Attempt to eliminate the business cycle dips by increasing money supply.
5. Utilize “agents” to manipulate certain financial indexes that the market looks to in determining investment focus, such as the S&P 500 Index.
6. Manage business activity by manipulating interest rates thus promoting borrowing by reducing rates to zero if necessary.
7. If the market fails to buy sovereign bonds, buy them and collect interest yourself on the money you created.
8. Create derivative agreements that insure your profit in all your activities, given that you control the outcome thus insure the counter-party will lose.
9. Attack the price of gold (and silver) in the futures market to weaken the resolve of holders of gold thus slowing down the rise of gold against the money you created out of thin air.
10. Buy up infrastructure assets from countries who are desperate to raise funds to pay for their deficits.
11. Imbed language into certain laws that will allow you to confiscate the public’s deposits if certain events occur. You will make sure those events DO occur.
12. Test the public’s reaction to money confiscation on a small scale, then back off. Hello Cyprus.
13. Goose the stock market by injecting liquidity (printing excess money) and make people feel like they are wealthy.
14. Short the market, then publicize that the market is too high sending signals to institutional managers to switch to bonds.
15. Keep the population entertained and their focus off of your activities.
16. After gold investor sentiment is sufficiently negative, accumulate gold and silver bullion at lower prices in preparation of creating a new currency.
17. Redefine government statistics to hide poor performance, inflation of your currency, and minimize transfer payments to the retired.
18. Create an adversary for the population to focus on whenever any negative event is about to occur.
19. After you accumulate sufficient gold, reconnect the gold to the currency at a much higher price. After all, you bought gold with money you created out of thin air.
The above is not all inclusive but just a plausible scenario motivated by the love of money. Our Heavenly Father will (or has) created a snare for the central planners. Time will tell us just how it plays out. It sure does take a lot of energy and focus to manipulate and exploit people.