After understanding what printing money means【1】, who wins and who loses【2】, the artificial growth cycles【3】 and the lie of easy money【4】, a question arises:
How to protect ourselves?
How can we escape a system where the government creates money out of thin air, devalues your savings, hides taxes in the form of inflation and silently destroys the purchasing power of the population?
The answer starts with a simple truth:
there is no economic freedom without monetary freedom.
🏛️ Currency as an instrument of power
Central banks are sold as technical, neutral institutions, “guardians of stability”.
But in practice, they are armed arms of the State to sustain deficits, manipulate the economy and finance scientifically-sounding populisms.
History shows:
- Currencies are created by the State, but controlled for the benefit of the State itself.
- Inflation is not an accident. It is a design.
- And the monopoly over money is the key to modern servitude.
🔒 Bitcoin: The Silent Monetary Rebellion
In 2009, an alternative was born: the Bitcoin.
A digital currency, scarce, decentralized, incorruptible.
No government, no central bank, no fiscal policy.
Its fundamental attributes are everything the State hates:
- Limited supply: 21 million.
- Open source, immutable.
- Distributed control.
- Censorship-resistant transactions.
Bitcoin was created after the 2008 crisis as a response to the rampant printing that saved banks and broke families.
It was a silent scream: “Enough manipulation!”
It is not just a digital asset.
It's an idea. A radical proposal for individual economic freedom.
🪙 The return of ballast: gold, metals and real assets
Long before crypto, liberal thinkers were already warning about the risks of fiat currency — the kind that is only valid because the government says it is.
Murray Rothbard advocated a return to the gold standard.
Friedrich Hayek proposed private currencies backed by commodities.
Mises denounced the destruction of currency as the destruction of civilization.
Today, with the advancement of technology, digital currencies backed by real assets return to the debate:
- Gold, silver, industrial metals tokens.
- Diversified baskets that seek real stability, such as the concept of AurAlloy — backed by metals, not by state promises.
The idea is simple:
If money is tied to something scarce and valuable, the government cannot inflate it at will.
🧠 Hayek's proposal: monetary competition
In his essay “The Privatization of Money”, Hayek made a provocation:
“Why do we accept that the government is the sole provider of currency?”
If we can have private schools, private hospitals, private post offices — why not private currencies?
Hayek advocated a free market in currencies.
Companies would issue competing currencies, backed by different assets.
People would choose which ones to use based on trust, stability, and practicality.
And the best part:
a bad currency would not survive.
Not by decree, but by choice.
This is the heart of freedom:
being able to choose how to store, exchange and protect the value you produce.
🚫 CBDCs: The trap of state digital currencies
While the market seeks freedom, governments fight back.
The calls CBDCs — central bank digital currencies — are being promoted as “modern,” “efficient,” “secure.”
But they hide a huge risk:
- Full traceability of transactions.
- Direct control over your account.
- Ability to freeze, confiscate, tax and limit the use of money with one click.
In practice, a economic surveillance and obedience tool.
It's the dystopia of programmable currency: you spend, but only if the government allows it.
💼 The future is outside the State
There is no real financial emancipation within a system based on monetary coercion.
If we want to protect our families, our savings, our work and our time, we need to move away from the state logic of currency.
This does not require armed revolution.
Requires education, choice and courage.
- Educate yourself on how inflation works.
- Choose more solid currencies, digital or physical.
- Courage to abandon the comfort of servitude.
As I said Ron Paul:
“Sound money is inseparable from freedom. To lose control over your currency is to lose control over your life.”
🧭 Conclusion
You no longer have to sit idly by while the State destroys the value of your money.
There are alternatives.
There are ideas.
There are entire communities that have already abandoned the ship of institutionalized inflation.
The question is not “when will the government stop printing?”,
but “When are you going to stop using what he prints?”
🚫 The government prints the money. But you are the one who pays the bill.
📉 Protect your freedom, your purchasing power and the fruits of your labor.
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