Just like fishing, one has to pay attention to what's going on to be successful. The "media" distractions du jour overwhelm all of us, considering all the important things Kim K. is doing for the world at large....

Given that most everything in our modern world revolves around international banking and the USD as the reserve currency for same, let's look at a couple charts to get some context to present circumstances.

From it's inception, the USD has been subject to inflation as it historically approaches its ultimate value. One could say from the graph that the value of a buck is inversely proportional to the monetary base. The linked chart's timeline ended in 2009. Let's look at a more current graph that comes to us straight from the horse's mouth.

From this second graph, one could safely state that prior to 2008 inflation was tracking its historically steady as she goes path to USD = 0.00. After QE infinity that began in 2008, what happens to the USD in economic terms when the monetary base increases more than 4-fold in the blink of an international banker's eye?

Are you paying attention?