So we pay the Fed to create currency that we then pay the Fed a interest rate upon which they "bought" with payment from creating such $ into existence.

Are currency is actually trending up against most of the world currencies these days.

Granted, there are reasons to pay interest on Fed deposits (one is to set a floor on prime so that interbank lending wouldn't dry up completely) but the moral hazard here is obvious.The third chart shows the monetary base, which is total currency in circulation (i.e., the cash in our wallets) plus cash held in reserve by banks.

Ore money pulled into high risk and over inflated stock, bond and currency traded that are filled with excessive brokers fees and no real return that is controllable by an individual. 

Such factors left central banks with no option other than intervening, he said, speaking in his capacity as chairman of the global Financial Stability Board.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronavirus-banks-collapse/612247/https://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/A-new-credit-bubble-gets-ready-to-burst-13911193.phpWhat comes next, dollar becomes so devalued that it triggers the great reset and crypto based economy. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-22/did-imf-reveal-cryptocurrency-new-world-order-end-gamehttps://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/06/pdf/fd0618.pdfhttps://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bank-england-governor-signals-central-bank-digital-currency-coming

(Ok, perhaps that's a little too pessimistic).It's just when I look at my portfolio I think "man, I should sell that (real estate, stocks, forex, metals) before it drops like a rock" and then do what with the money?

and shuffle that 'fiat' currency around WORLDWIDE, so the ratcheted leverage just keeps increasing, while the  markets for those currencies and everything else "fluctuates," according to individual currencies and nation states, controlling and competing, marketshare.

@Jay Hinrichs whether Canadian or US currency, sadly this isn't much money anymore.

He made 18% on the "currency trade" alone. 

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