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video: SHOCKING: How COVID Printed Money Made Billionaires Rich While Crushing Your Gym!

Alright, listen up, America – grab your popcorn and your blood pressure meds, because this is the raw, unfiltered truth about how the COVID money printer went BRRRRR and turned the economy into a rigged casino where the house (and the connected insiders) not only won big, but did so stealing your money.

I think it’s beneficial to go over this, so you can see it when it takes place in the future.
I give you my buddy who personally suffered from this. He owns a small gym in Washington. Great business, he works his ass off, and yet, during Covid, his customers that he works hard to retain, being blown away by the Covid winds, because the government flipped the “shut it all down” switch on a virus that – surprise, surprise – probably leaked out of that Wuhan lab after years of U.S. taxpayer-funded gain-of-function tinkering. The irony is thicker than a protein shake.

He’s bleeding cash, applies for a PPP loan like a desperate man raising his hand above the waves before being dragged under… and gets …  nothing. Zilch. Denied. Meanwhile, the well-connected, the politically plugged-in, the private-equity sharks? They’re laughing all the way to the vault, high-fiving over Zoom, which is what the government allowed at that time.

That, my friends, is the Cantillon Effect on steroids – the 300-year-old economic truth that when new money floods the system (printed out of thin air or “forgiven” by Uncle Sam), the people closest to the money spigot get rich first, while the rest of you chumps eat inflation and crushed dreams. New money doesn’t trickle down—it gushes upward, like champagne at a billionaire’s yacht party while you’re stuck with warm tap water.

Here’s exactly how they pulled it off in 2020-2022:

The Fed cranks the printing press and buys up $1.3 trillion in mortgage-backed securities to “stabilize housing.” Mortgage rates crash to 2. something percent. Wall Street and private equity (hello, Blackstone and their Invitation Homes machine) get first dibs on the cheap debt. They refinance like crazy and go on a bulk-buying spree of single-family homes while prices are still semi-reasonable. Then – boom – home prices explode 20-40% in hot markets. Ordinary working stiffs? Rather than being able to buy at reduced prices, they get outcompeted by the large corporations riding the wave of printed money, and now get Priced out forever. Their future starter home and building equity, and having a stake in society, just became a rental unit owned by some billionaire’s fund. That is the Cantillon Effect in glorious, infuriating motion! Thanks for the ‘help,’ Fed—nothing says ‘middle-class dream’ like renting from a hedge fund forever.

At the same time, Congress and the SBA roll out the Paycheck Protection Program, the PPP – $793 billion in “loans” that were basically free money if you filled out the forms right, which my buddy did but was denied, outcompeted why those more connected,  96% of the dollar value – that’s $763 billion – got forgiven. Turned into straight-up grants. Poof. Taxpayer-funded gifts. Your money, handed out like candy at a parade you weren’t invited to.

But here’s the hilarious (and criminal) part: The fraudsters didn’t just dip their toe in—they dived in headfirst with Olympic-level enthusiasm. The SBA Inspector General says at least $200 billion in total COVID relief was potentially fraudulent. For PPP alone, tens of billions vanished. And yes—there is mountains of evidence that professional scammers created multiple shell companies and fake LLCs to game the system. One guy got indicted for 63 fraudulent applications. Families filed for a dozen bogus businesses with identical fake payrolls. Synthetic identities, ghost employees, the works. These clowns got the money first, spent it on houses, cars, and Lambos, and drove up prices even more—studies show ZIP codes drowning in suspicious PPP loans saw home prices jump an extra 5.8% compared to clean areas.

So while  was staring at bankruptcy, wondering how they’d make rent …

…Blackstone and the rest of the billionaire boys club were scooping up properties at the bottom of the dip (thanks to the lockdowns THEY cheered for), refinancing at rock-bottom rates (thanks to the Fed), and watching their portfolios balloon as the printed money they got first inflated everything.

The average taxpayer? Screwed twice. First by the idiotic, economy-destroying lockdowns over a lab-leak virus the government helped fund… then by watching their tax dollars get laundered into yachts and McMansions for the connected class while small businesses got crumbs (or nothing).

This wasn’t a bug. This was the feature. The Cantillon Effect isn’t some conspiracy theory – it’s math. New money doesn’t rain equally. It trickles up, every single time. The elites get the fresh cash at old prices. You get the inflation at new prices. And the fraudsters? They just laugh, create another LLC, and apply again.

nearly went under, and thousands of other small corporations DID, with the allotted money given away to those most connected. The pigs closest to the trough.
The top walked away wealthier with printed dollars that the tax payers are on the hook got. And the government that caused the whole mess? Still pretending they “saved the economy.”

That’s not capitalism. That’s cronyism with extra steps.In a casino, where the political connected always find to rig.

And what’s important here. next time they try this crap? We remember.