
Executive Summary:
This paper critically examines the intentional redefinition of the economic term inflation from its original meaning—the artificial expansion of the money and credit supply—to its prevailing definition as a generalized rise in prices. This study contends that this semantic distortion constitutes not a mere academic error but a deliberate act of economic manipulation with far-reaching ethical, social, and civilizational consequences. It is not a trivial semantic change but a foundational economic distortion implemented to institutionalize monetary inflation (artificial credit and currency creation).
The paper demonstrates how this linguistic shift facilitated the abandonment of sound, commodity-backed monetary systems and enabled the global adoption of fiat currency regimes rooted in coercion, monetary inflation, technocratic monetary management, and economic repression. It further analyzes how this redefinition obscured the true causes of economic dispossession that occurs through currency debasement and artificial credit creation, resulting in systemic wealth inequality, chronic economic instability, and state tyranny.
Through a historical, theoretical, and ethical lens, the paper points out that the semantic fraud surrounding inflation has been instrumental in entrenching the current Western statist and militarist global order. The paper concludes by advocating for a restoration of economic truth, ethical monetary systems, and the imperative of sound money, such as the Nilar, as a prerequisite for economic justice, stability, and civilized society.
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Manuel Tacanho
Manuel Tacanho is a social philosopher and economist; and the founder and president of the Afrindependent Institute.
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