Federal Reserve

The government and the Fed are making the rich richer and everybody else poorer. Case in point:

"PORSCHE REPORTS BEST SALES MONTH IN HISTORY; DELIVERIES UP 29%.

The typical American is not buying a Porsche. Relatively, he's getting poorer. But his brain has gone soft, shrunken by TV news, elections and deadhead commentaries.

He believes Hillary Clinton when she says, "The government is all of us." He thinks the Fed really is bringing a "recovery." And he imagines that an economy can get richer when it prints more money and gives it to other people."

"Here on the pampas the Argentines know better. Their brains have been sharpened by adversity and enlarged by necessity.

"Every day, it is a struggle to keep up with it," says a friend who runs a small business in Salta. "You have to figure out what the peso is worth... and you have to decide if you'll do a deal in pesos or dollars. And if you do it in pesos, you have to figure out how to trade dollars for pesos... or vice versa."

This week, the peso dropped to nearly 10 to the dollar. Officially, the rate is only 5.5 to the dollar. Big difference.

We need to buy a new hay baler. The price is quoted in dollars – about $50,000. You pay in pesos at the official rate... so that's about 250,000 pesos. But wait – if you have dollars and can trade your money on the black market, you will save $25,000.

"The trouble is, the government is watching," says our informant. "They'll want to know where you got the 250,000 pesos... it can get very nasty if you don't have your paperwork in order.

"But there are ways."

The Argentines know they're getting ripped off by the government. They find ways to protect themselves."

It's going to get like this in the US when people start using alternative payment methods to the dollar.