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About this Episode
Episode 10: Do Tariffs Matter?
The tariff debate is one of the most consequential economic conversations of our time — and it's almost entirely missing the point. In this episode, Brian argues that the fight over tariffs is a second-order argument happening inside a fraudulent frame. The real question isn't whether tariffs are good or bad. It's whether free trade is even possible when the money itself is corrupt.
What we cover:
- Why money is half of every transaction — and what happens when that half is crooked
- The proof-of-weapons network: Simon Dixon's framework for understanding what actually backs the US dollar (hint: it's not the economy)
- How the petrodollar system, SWIFT, the IMF, and military force form an interlocking system that controls global purchasing power
- A candid look inside Gravitas Chemical — how tariff whipsaw forced a costly supply chain migration from China to Indonesia, and why the math on reshoring doesn't work for small businesses
- The two completely different things being called "reshoring" — and why only politically connected corporations are eating from the government trough
- Why free trade also means free movement of people — and how dollar hegemony drives the very migration crisis politicians blame on migrants
- What a Bitcoin-denominated world actually looks like: peer-to-peer trade, honest war financing, and individual wealth sovereignty that no army can seize
- Why "stack accordingly" isn't a political statement — it's a rational response to an unstable signal environment
Key idea: You cannot have free trade without honest money. Half of every transaction is the unit of account. If that half is controlled by the proof-of-weapons network — by the alignment of central banks, defense contractors, and political establishments — the price signal is lying and the measuring stick is crooked. No amount of tariff negotiation changes that. Bitcoin fixes the money. Honest money gives trade a chance to actually be free.
Mentioned:
- Simon Dixon — proof-of-weapons network framework
- Nixon closing the gold window (1971) and the petrodollar arrangement
- Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and Ayatollah Khamenei as historical examples of dollar hegemony enforcement
- CHIPS Act, TSMC Arizona, Intel, MP Materials — industrial policy reshoring vs. small business reshoring
- Love & Hard Money Episode 9 (Solzhenitsyn / Live Not By Lies)
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