Think of it this way…. Imagine if a company issued shares (which you purchased) on December 23, 1913 at $100 a share and today those same shares are worth only $1.02 each share. During those 110 years that company diluted the 💩 out of your stake to the point that it doesn’t matter how much revenues it generates (let’s say trillions of dollars for this analogy)- it continues to issue billions of shares each year just so it can pay for its operations despite losing money year after year for the past 110 years! Now your shares are only worth $1.02 each (ie 98.8% worth LESS than when they were first issued) but everything you need to buy with those shares costs more. To add insult to injury that same company plays mind games with its shareholders by telling the markets, from time to time, that it will finally stop issuing more shares (ie stop the dilution) so that the shares can perk back up to maybe $1.15 a share but then turn around and start the printing press again (ie more dilution) in order to pay its money losing operations. This is basically (in the most simplest terms) what the Federal Reserve (ie a PRIVATE institution that has nothing to do with the Federal Government) does when it plays around with interest rates by lowering (or raising)them over and over again or does its quantitative easing schemes. I only wished that more people understand this basic concept of how the fiat currency manipulation works….
Nothing to do with the Federal Government? Not even a little bit?