THE LONG BOND IS ABOUT TO BREAK

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The US national debt grows by $1 Trillion every 150 days.
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Everyone is blaming tariffs for rising prices. And yes, tariffs play a role. But there is a deeper, slower, and far more dangerous force driving inflation that almost nobody is talking about.

The dollar is losing its reserve currency status in the world, and YOU are going to feel it in your wallets.

Since the 1970s, oil has been priced globally in US dollars. Every country that needs energy, which is every country on earth, has to first buy dollars to purchase oil. That created a permanent, mechanical demand for the dollar for 50 years straight.

And when govts and central banks have idle dollar, they park them in US Treasury bonds.

Which means the whole world has essentially been lending money to the US government at low interest rates. That is what allowed America to run a $2 trillion deficit in 2025 without the dollar collapsing.

So far simple?

That arrangement quietly subsidised your standard of living. It kept import prices low, borrowing costs low, and the dollar strong. Most Americans have never heard of the petrodollar system, but they have been benefiting from it their entire lives.

That system is now cracking.

In April 2026, the UAE warned US Treasury officials that it may start pricing oil sales to China in yuan rather than dollars. This is not a small headline. The Gulf states have been the most loyal supporters of the petrodollar system for 50 years. When even they start questioning it, something has fundamentally shifted.

And it is not just the UAE. Central banks globally have been quietly dumping dollar reserves and buying gold instead over 1,000 tonnes per year for three consecutive years.

​Source Central Banks | World Gold Council

They are not doing this because gold is trendy. They are doing it because they watched the US freeze $300 billion of Russia’s reserves in 2022 and realised their dollar holdings could be seized at any time for political reasons.

When countries hold fewer dollars, they buy fewer US Treasury bonds. When Treasury demand falls, yields rise. When yields rise, the US government pays more interest on its $39 trillion debt. That worsens the deficit. A worse deficit means more money printing. More money printing means more inflation!

You end up paying more for everything and not because your local grocery store raised prices, but because the purchasing power of every dollar in your pocket quietly eroded.

And that means a lower standard of living for Americans.

The dollar index has been weakening. Import prices are rising. The US credit rating was downgraded by Moody’s in 2025, the first downgrade in over 100 years. And the Fed’s independence is being openly questioned as Jerome Powell’s term ended in May 2026.

The frustrating part is that most people will keep blaming tariffs, or corporations, or whoever is in the White House. The real cause is structural, decades in the making, and almost nobody in mainstream media is connecting these dots clearly.

If this is too abstract for you to understand (becuz it comprises a bit of economic concepts), here’s a TLDR for you:

TL;DR:

The world is quietly ditching the dollar. Less demand for dollars = weaker dollar = your money buys less = everything costs more = lower standard of living

Anyways here is a full breakdown of how it all works and how you can protect yourself from this dollar crisis, if it’s helpful

h/t Technical_Public1008