The 5 Stage Wealth Extraction Cycle: Rome, Venice, Britain… America Is Entering Stage 4

Описание: In August 1971, a quiet Sunday night decision inside the Oval Office pushed the United States into a historical sequence that has destroyed every reserve currency before it. What President Nixon announced was not simply the end of gold convertibility — it was the moment America officially entered a wealth extraction cycle that has played out in the exact same pattern across Rome, Venice, and the British Empire.
And today, the U.S. has crossed into Stage Four, the most dangerous phase — where financial engineering replaces real productive strength.
For 2,000+ years, every major empire has followed the same five stages:
Stage 1 — Productive Dominance
Innovation, manufacturing superiority, rising living standards, and a currency backed by real economic output.
Stage 2 — Early Extraction
Imports rise, trade deficits begin, and elites shift from production to financial power.
Stage 3 — Currency Exporting
The empire prints money, runs persistent deficits, and foreign nations fund its lifestyle by holding its currency.
Stage 4 — Full Wealth Extraction (America today)
Financial markets grow detached from reality, debt explodes, inequality spikes, and wealth flows upward while the real economy stagnates.
Stage 5 — Collapse
Foreign creditors reject the currency, productive capacity is too damaged to recover, and living standards fall sharply.

From Rome’s denarius debasement, to Venice’s bond-driven stagnation, to Britain’s 1931 gold collapse, the pattern has repeated with mathematical precision.
And now the numbers show the U.S. is following the same path:
$92 trillion total U.S. debt
350% debt-to-GDP
Foreign Treasury holdings falling
Dollar reserve share dropping
Manufacturing at its lowest point in U.S. history
Financial profits at record highs while real wages stagnate
History shows no empire has ever reversed Stage Four.
This documentary breaks down the full 5-stage cycle, compares all past empires, and explains why America’s transition into Stage Four signals the most important economic shift of our lifetime.

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