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The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation

doctordude · 11M views · 2011-01-12 · 29:55

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A 30-minute animated film explaining how money, banking and the Federal Reserve work and arguing that the American economy is heading for collapse. It is opinionated and has a strong point of view.

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Recommended as an accessible animated primer on banking and the Fed, usually with the caveat that it is biased and dated.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2014–2025

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Jerry2 · 2023-03 · Strong recommendation

Yes, that's how it works. There's this amazing animated movie from 2011 that explains how banking works and the history of banks: "The Collapse of The American Dream Explained in Animation" [1] It has almost 10 million views. [1] [VIDEO]

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Fuxy · 2014-12 · Strong recommendation

> Wealth Inequality - The gap is widening The US currency and most other currencies are working against the people and in favor of the bankers. Probably one of the best solutions that have presented themselves for this problem is bit-coin but since it is extremely volatile and still underused at the moment it is not ready yet. Here's [1] a simple youtube animation that explains it better than anything i have seen. [1]: [VIDEO]

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normalaccess · 2025-01 · Recommendation

The fact that every dollar that is printed MUST be paid back to the Federal Reserve Bank with interest means that every dollar printed is worth less than it's face value. This is the original and primary source of inflation. All debt biassed currencies have this, not as a defect, but as a feature. If you own the bank you can do some money magic and get filthy rich. The Federal reserve Over the last 100 years the dollar has lost something like 96% of it's value. It's old and quite corny but this video gives the cliff notes on how the FED works [VIDEO]

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