“The Great Reset” Already Happened

"Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there's nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize"

The global elites’ techno-fantasy of a completely centralized future, The Great Reset, is addressed as a future project. Too bad it already happened in 2008-09. The lackeys and toadies tasked with spewing the PR are 12 years too late, and so are the critics listening to the PR with foreboding.

Simply put, events outran our understanding of them. The future already manifested while we were trying to cram the present arrangement into an obsolete conceptual framework.

In broad-brush, the post-World War II era ended around 1970. The legitimate prosperity of 1946-1970 was based on cheap oil controlled by the U.S. and the hegemony of the U.S. dollar. Everything else was merely decoration.

The Original Sin to hard-money advocates was America’s abandonment of the gold standard in 1971, but this was the only way to maintain hegemony. Maintaining the reserve currency is tricky, as the nation issuing the reserve currency has to supply the global economy with enough of the currency to grease commerce and stock central bank reserves around the world.

As the global economy expanded, the only way the U.S. could send enough dollars overseas was to run trade deficits, which in a gold standard meant the gold reserves would go to zero as trading partners holding dollars would exchange the currency for gold.

So the choice was: give up the reserve currency and the hegemony of the U.S. dollar by jacking up the dollar’s value so high that imports would collapse, or accept that hegemony was no longer compatible with the gold standard. It wasn’t a difficult decision: who would give up global hegemony, and for what?

Many other dynamics changed around the same time: social, cultural, political. These charts reflect the end of the postwar era and the ushering in of a new era.

Again in broad-brush, the key economic dynamic was the decline of labor’s share of the economy in favor of capital. Those who had only their labor to sell lost purchasing power, while those who could borrow or access capital benefited enormously. The charts below tell the story: labor’s share of the national income has stairstepped lower for 50 years (since 1970) while the super-wealthy’s share has outpaced everyone else 15-fold.

The dominance of financial capital is visible in the third chart, as private-sector financial assets are now 6 times the nation’s GDP, double the percentage of the postwar era.

This capital-friendly era was rocket-boosted by financialization in the 1980s, technology in the 1990s and globalization in the early 21st century. You can see each advance of capital’s top tier–the top 0.1%–in the chart below: the top 0.1% first pulled away in the 1980s financialization, stutter-stepped in the early 1990s and then exploded higher as technology fueled capital’s leverage and exposure to the gains reaped by computers and the Internet.

Alas, these extremes are not stable or sustainable, and so each wave ends in a devastating crash. The income of the top 0.1% took a hit as the dotcom bubble burst, but then China’s entry into the WTO saved the day as rampant globalization and additional extremes of financial leverage and fraud boosted their fortunes in the 2000s.

The dual extremes of financialization and globalization created the 2008 bubble, and its collapse almost took down the entire global capital house of cards. Central banks, ultimately financed by the Fed to the tune of $29 trillion, twice the size of America’s entire GDP, instituted The Great Reset under the usual guise of “emergency measures” which then became permanent policies.

The Great Reset led to the hyper-centralization of control over the global economy’s money as central banks coordinated unprecedented money-printing and financial repression, which includes zero-interest rate policies (ZIRP), as the debt-bubble would pop if rates aren’t nailed down to zero.

All the PR being spewed about The Great Reset is the final frantic flailing of a system that’s drowning in its own excesses. The 50-year long era of the few enriching themselves as the expense of the many has ended, for the same reason eras of extreme exploitation always end–the elites got too greedy and overshot the economy’s ability to sustain their rapidly expanding share of the income and wealth.

Put another way: the elites have cannibalized the system so thoroughly that there’s nothing left to steal, exploit or cannibalize. The hyper-centralized global money control has run out of rope as the cheap oil is gone, debts have ballooned to the point there is no way they’ll ever be paid down, and the only thing staving off collapse is money-printing, which holds the seeds of its own demise.

Allow me to summarize the only way The Great Reset envisioned by global elites can actually manifest: The Martians arrive towing huge meteorites of pure lithium and gold, and rather than incinerating the global elites, they hand the global elites the meteorites to further their concentration of wealth and power.

Short of that science fiction, this sucker’s going down. The Great Reset has already run its course after 12 long years of artifice, fraud and trickery. So global elite shills, lackeys, factotums, toadies and apparatchiks–prepare for your Wil-E-Coyote moment of truth.

Source: Of Two Minds

16 Comments
  1. cechas vodobenikov says

    some national elites orient towards the people, others to the rich…..the empire has chosen the latter

  2. John D. says

    Great Reset 2021 means global control and suppression through a fascist regime of th 0,1% that anually meet in Davos. It’s the only way to keep a desintegrating system working. Digital helicopter money for the millions out of work or working poor will be a likely solution. Covid19 is the ideal tool to implement all the necessary measures to forcefully transform the neoliberal system as not to experience its downfall. Either the masses will stop this development or we will be facing years of bloody, lawless suppression, accompanied by regular outbreaks among the 99,9% trying somehow the free themselves from their ongoing misery and pseudo-life without future.

  3. Styx says

    Nothing left to steal?

    Well, we can always bomb it.

  4. Jimbo says

    The fed currency inflation outpaces wages. Follow the money trail. At the top is the IMF. Our own treasury is bogus. Read their script. They are on board with spending tax payer money in other countries. All these criminals have no loyalty to this nation. Export them ASAP.

    1. Garry Compton says

      The ” Elitists” have had a lot of experience in looting countries. The Russian Empire was looted from 1917 to 1935, then the Soviet Union was looted after the fall in 89. The Zionist Bolsheviks decided to take their time and loot the USA several times – build it up – loot it – rebuild it up – loot it again- but loot it one more time – before it falls down. Of course Germany, France, Great Britain, the African countries, and Asia have also been victims.

      1. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

        Almost all looting has been done by capitalists.

        1. Garry Compton says

          Greed is the Wests’ middle name.

    2. Jimbo says

      And the most bizarre nightmare becomes truth. Thanks Jimmy. Knowledge is a necessary burden.

      1. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

        Yeah. It’s a burden for a shrinking minority of Americans. The majority no longer care or have any real ethics or morals. Ethics and morals have been brainwashed out of most Americans. It’s “The strongest survive”, “Give me mine now”, and “Go to hell, I’ve got mine”. One of those three sayings would now win a national vote as our new national motto. The elites have made Americans insecure and desperate and even some of the brightest people do stupid, selfish things under such circumstances.

        We’re done.

        1. Jimbo says

          I agree completely. I would be wasting my time trying to bring truth to anyone at this point. Too much to teach and brains are scarce. One other issue is the self policing character of this agenda. It will hit them like a semi truck. Good riddance to most of them. Morality as well as true education is somehow out of fashion. Even though it is key to civilization.

          1. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

            Yep.

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    1. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

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  6. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

    GREAT article and a great cartoon. I don’t always agree with this guy but this article is mostly on target. Thank you.

    1. Saint Jimmy (Russian American) says

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