SPAIN'S SILVER FORTUNE: HOW UNLIMITED WEALTH BANKRUPTED AN EMPIRE

Описание: Spain conquered the Americas. Sixteen million kilograms of silver poured into Seville. The Spanish Crown became the richest monarchy on Earth.

Then Spain declared bankruptcy. Four times.

This is the true story of history's greatest wealth trap. How the largest treasure extraction in human history destroyed the empire that owned it. How foreign bankers controlled Spanish kings. How Protestant enemies got rich from Catholic silver. How abundance became a curse.

The Spanish Silver Curse explains why wealth and power are not the same thing. It reveals the hidden machinery of extraction that transferred American treasure from Spanish mines to Dutch banks, English factories, and Genoese vaults.

This pattern still operates today. Venezuela. Nigeria. Russia. The resource curse has a patient zero. Spain walked this path five centuries ago. The archives documented every step.

In this video you will learn:

00:00 The Golden Lie
00:00 The Silver Flood
00:00 The Price Revolution
00:00 The Banking Trap
00:00 The Protestant Windfall
00:00 The Modern Curse

Primary Sources Used:
Casa de Contratación Records (Archivo General de Indias, Seville)
Earl J. Hamilton, American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain (Harvard, 1934)
Spanish Royal Treasury Debt Records
Martín de Azpilcueta, Comentario Resolutorio de Cambios (1556)

King Philip II inherited the richest empire in history. He declared bankruptcy four times. The Genoese bankers who financed his wars extracted 30 to 50 percent annual returns. The Dutch rebels he tried to crush funded their resistance with captured Spanish silver. The English privateers who raided his treasure ships built the navy that would defeat the Armada.

Spain had all the silver. Spain lost everything.

The lesson still applies. Resource wealth creates dependency. Dependency transfers power to those who control the bottlenecks. The Spanish archives prove this pattern. Modern economists rediscovered it and named it Dutch Disease.


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