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End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless
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End of the Road: How Money Became Worthless

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Since the 2008 crash, central banks have printed trillions of dollars, and this film asks what happens when a currency backed by nothing but government promises finally runs out of road. Economists, fund managers, and gold advocates walk through the history of money from the gold standard's collapse in 1971 to quantitative easing, arguing that debt-fueled growth has been substituting for real wealth creation for decades. Interviews cover the mechanics of fractional reserve banking, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet expansion, and the political incentives that make politicians and central bankers reach for more debt rather than less. Archival news footage of the 2008 bank bailouts and stock market panic anchors the argument in a recent, familiar crisis rather than abstract theory. The film's case is that inflation, currency devaluation, and eventual monetary collapse are not risks but a predictable endpoint of the current system, and it lays out gold, silver, and hard assets as the traditional hedge against that outcome.