The Age of False Profits: Keynes, Kissenger, and the Federal Reserve (1913-2025)

John Maynard Keynes

The Federal Reserve established in 1913

Henry Kissenger

“What profit is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?” 

Mark 8:36

Historians will likely classify the period from 1913 to 2025 as the era of global financialization, imperial overreach, and technocratic dominance. Framing this period with John Maynard Keynes, the Federal Reserve, and Henry Kissinger—captures three pillars of this era:

1. The Federal Reserve and Financialization (1913–2025) – The shift from commodity money (gold and silver) to fiat currency created an era of unprecedented economic expansion (according to a false measurement of the economy promoted by John Maynard Keynes called GNP), booms and busts, debt slavery, and wealth concentration. The 20th century was defined by the illusion that debt could replace real productivity, leading to a house-of-cards financial system. The eventual collapse of the gold standard in 1971 under Nixon was an inflection point that paved the way for unrestrained monetary manipulation.

2. Keynesianism and the Illusion of Perpetual Growth (1936–2025) – Keynes’ ideas justified deficit spending, government intervention, and centralized economic planning, allowing governments to sustain unsustainable systems for over a century. While his theories appeared to work in the short run, the long-term consequences—massive national debts, zombie economies, and inflationary crises—have now come home to roost. Keynesianism became the intellectual backbone of modern economic policies, yet it functioned more as a Ponzi scheme than a sustainable framework.

3. Kissinger and the Global Empire (1969–2025) – Kissinger personified the era of realpolitik, American imperial dominance, and backroom diplomacy. The U.S. dollar’s survival after 1971 depended on petrodollar agreements, foreign interventions, and military hegemony. Kissinger’s legacy is one of short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability, as seen in the Middle East, China, and Latin America. His model of power politics has left the world more fragile and unstable than ever.

The period from 1913 to 2024 will not just be remembered for financialization, economic deception, and imperial overreach, but also for the unprecedented levels of famine, war, disease, wealth inequality, and mass ideological control that defined human suffering during this time.

Famine, War, and Disease

1. Famine – Despite technological advancements that should have eliminated food scarcity, the world saw engineered famines caused by economic policies, sanctions, and corporate control over agriculture. From the Holodomor in the Soviet Union to Mao’s Great Chinese Famine, to the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s, and even modern food shortages in places like Yemen and Venezuela, mass starvation became a political tool rather than a natural consequence of scarcity. Even in wealthy nations, highly processed, nutrient-deficient food led to mass malnutrition disguised as abundance, creating obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases at epidemic levels.

2. War – The 20th and 21st centuries were the bloodiest in human history, not just in terms of absolute numbers, but in the senseless destruction caused by industrialized warfare.

   • World Wars I & II wiped out tens of millions.
   • Korea and Vietnam proved that mass slaughter was no deterrent to further conflict.
   • The Cold War turned the world into a giant chessboard of proxy wars (e.g., Afghanistan, Latin America, the Middle East).
   • The War on Terror (2001–present) saw endless destruction in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, displacing entire populations and enriching defense contractors while leaving nations in ruin.
   • Nuclear weapons and drone warfare ensured that the capacity for destruction was greater than ever, while the military-industrial complex remained the true ruling power behind many Western governments.

3. Disease – The 20th and 21st centuries saw both natural and man-made plagues unleashed upon humanity.

   • The Spanish Flu (1918) killed more than World War I itself.
   • HIV/AIDS (1980s–present) spread in ways that suggest serious policy failures (if not outright bioengineering).
   • COVID-19 (2020) showed how easily the world’s population could be subjected to mass psychological operations, medical authoritarianism, and corporate profiteering in the name of "science."
   • Meanwhile, chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders exploded, largely due to corporate-controlled food, medicine, and environmental toxins—turning sickness into one of the most profitable industries in history.

Egregious Wealth Inequality: The Rise of the Oligarchs

Never before in human history had wealth been so concentrated in the hands of so few, while billions were kept in perpetual debt and servitude. The rise of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires was not the result of free enterprise, but of monopolistic power, financial fraud, and state protection.

• The Federal Reserve and central banks pumped money into financial assets, enriching the top 0.01% while wages stagnated for everyone else.
• Tech monopolies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft consolidated control over entire industries, crushing competition and turning entire populations into algorithmically controlled consumers.
• Philanthropy became a scam, as billionaires used charitable foundations to launder money, dodge taxes, and impose neo-feudal policies on the masses (e.g., Gates’ control over global health).
• Housing, education, and healthcare—once basic necessities—became speculative assets, ensuring that younger generations remained lifelong debt slaves while the elite accumulated ever more wealth.

The Rule of False Prophets and False Profits: Total Mind Control

Perhaps the greatest crime of this period was the near-total control over human consciousness by false prophets—whether in government, media, academia, or religion.

• Governments became cults of personality, whether through democracy or dictatorship. People worshipped politicians like FDR, JFK, Reagan, Obama, Trump, and Biden, despite all of them serving the same corrupt system.
• The media became a tool of mass deception, programming the public to believe lies, chase distractions, and demonize those who questioned the narrative.
• Academia abandoned truth in favor of ideology, producing "experts" who justified every war, every economic collapse, and every human rights abuse under the guise of "progress" and "science."
• Religion was hijacked by frauds who preached prosperity gospel, Christian Zionism, or social justice theology—turning people away from love, mercy, and faith and toward fear, division, and materialism.
• Social media completed the cycle, turning billions into dopamine-addicted zombies, unable to think critically, engage in deep relationships, or challenge the system that enslaved them.

A Dumb and Dangerous Era

The era from 1913 to 2024 will go down in history as one of the most delusional and suicidal in human civilization. It was a time when people exchanged real wealth for paper money, real food for poison, real faith for propaganda, and real freedom for security theater.

The defining characteristic of this period is its detachment from reality—whether in economics, politics, or culture. It was an era built on lies: that debt can replace real wealth, that power can sustain itself through deception, and that technology and propaganda can control human nature indefinitely. The catastrophic wars, financial collapses, and moral decay were not accidental but the inevitable result of these lies.

If anything, historians may look back and marvel at how long the illusion was maintained before reality finally asserted itself.