What’s unfolding in plain sight isn’t a glitch in the system—it is the system. Across the globe, nations are quietly buying back their own debt through central banks, a desperate move dressed in technical jargon. They call it liquidity support or balance sheet management. In truth, it’s a sleight of hand that robs the middle class blind while handing the rich the keys to the vault.
When central banks print money to buy their own government’s debt, currencies weaken, inflation accelerates, and purchasing power melts like ice under a blowtorch. This isn’t a side effect. It’s the mechanism. Every time inflation ticks higher, wages lag behind and the cost of living quietly suffocates ordinary people. The poor lose first. The middle class holds on longer—but they end up holding the bag when the shell game collapses.
Meanwhile, the very banks that helped blow the bubble sit back and wait. They know the playbook. Once the cycle runs its course, they’ll rebrand, restructure, and resurface. The assets—land, resources, companies—flow upward. The debt? That stays with the public.
Every bailout, every stimulus injection, every emergency bond buyback drains the system’s credibility while enriching the few. We’re told it’s necessary, responsible, even patriotic. But behind the curtain, it’s the same story repeated again and again: funnel wealth upward, bury the public in debt, and change the channel before anyone notices.
History says when the math stops working, governments look for a distraction. War resets the ledger. Borders are redrawn, blame is shifted, and the cycle begins anew under a different name. The only constant is that those at the top rarely pay the price.
This isn’t just economics. It’s theft by design. If you’re watching your savings lose value, if your rent keeps rising while wages don’t, it’s not bad luck. It’s policy.