From Civilian To Military Economy: This Is What A Declining Empire's Economy Looks Like

Authored by Bryan Lutz via DollarCollapse.com,

“A government always finds itself obliged to resort to inflationary measures when it cannot negotiate loans and dare not levy taxes, because it has reason to fear that it will forfeit approval of the policy it is following if it reveals too soon the financial and general economic consequences of that policy.”

~ Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit (1912)

Empires don’t announce their decline.

And on Monday, the U.S. Census Bureau quietly published the latest installment.

Rome elevated the military as the empire decayed.

Britain did the same after 1914.

And after 1971, when Nixon severed the dollar from gold, America began the same process.

The factory floor is where it shows up first…

March 2026 defense capital goods orders: up 18 percent month-over-month.

Source: ZeroHedge News